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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is, perhaps, the most famous story by an American writer Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, the admitted author of "horror stories". "A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, ...Show more
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
"One of the most unique and perceptive writers of our time." The New York Times. The author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged recounts the tale of a dystopia in which all traces of individualism have been eliminated from every aspect of life. In this brief, captivating novel, Ayn Rand anticipates t ...Show more
Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich K selitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both "The An ...Show more
Areopagitica and Other Prose Works by John Milton; C. E. Vaughan (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
1927. The immediate occasion of the Areopagitica was the order of June 1643, by which Parliament reestablished the censorship of the Press. Milton's main object is to show the absurdity and iniquity of this measure, and to press for its repeal. But he does not confine himself within these comparatively ...Show more
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
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Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward. After the war she reverses her opinions, thoug ...Show more
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
Category: Biography | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
During his remarkable lifetime, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) served his country in many capacities, including as the third President of the United States. But ultimately, this gifted individual -- an accomplished architect, naturalist, and linguist -- wished to be remembered primarily as the writer of t ...Show more
Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
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A cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence -- the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches a letter that links the ridd ...Show more
Behind a Mask - A Short Story Collection by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The author of Little Women and other beloved classics, Louisa May Alcott grew up in a community of New England transcendentalists that included Thoreau and Emerson. Because her learned but impractical father was a poor provider, she supported her family by writing magazine stories that were often publis ...Show more
Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"It was an age of miracles," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1920s, "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." No author is more closely associated with the decade than Fitzgerald, who christened it the "Jazz Age" and chronicled its manners and morals. His lyrical, ...Show more
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Thrift S.
The great 19th-century philosopher refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in one of his most important works, a fascinating examination of human values and morality. Publisher's Note.
Bhagavadgita by ARNOLD, SIR E
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the most celebrated treasures of world literature as well, it is in the form of a po ...Show more
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
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An innocent and lovable young man, pressed into naval service during the Napoleonic wars, is falsely accused of inciting mutiny in this haunting tale. Herman Melville's classic parable of the clash between good and evil offers a profoundly moving examination of the balance between authority and individu ...Show more