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Tulips and Chimneys by E. E. Cummings
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Harvard University graduate, is best known for his rejection of traditional poetic forms. As e. e. cummings, he conducted radical experiments with spelling, syntax, and punctuation that inspired a revolution in twentieth-c ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave by Philip S. (INT) Solomon; Foner Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Colouring | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...'Nietzsche ...Show more
Two Classic Utopias by Francis Bacon; Tomasso Campanella; Gregory Claeys (Foreword by)
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In keeping with the inquisitive spirit of their times, two 17th-century writers envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of log ...Show more
Typee - A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In this classic of travel and adventure literature, Herman Melville drew upon his adventures in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a prisoner of the Typee people. Like the novel's narrator, Melville jumped ship from a whaling vessel and was held in benign captivity by an indigenous tribe with a repu ...Show more
VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by JAMES WILLIAM
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Varieties of Religious Experience is William James's classic survey of religious belief. With psychological insight and philosophical rigor, James wrote a truly foundational text for modern belief. Matthew Bradley's wide-ranging new edition--the most critically up-to-date and inclusive edition of Ja ...Show more
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classic | Series: Dover Thrift S.
One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and other ...Show more
War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon The poems gathered here, which trace the course of the First World War, are an extraordinary testimony to the almost unimaginable experiences of a combatant in that bitter conflict. Moving from the patriotic optimism of the first few poems (...fighting for our freedom, we ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Gregory Zilboorg (Translator)
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A collectible hardcover centennial edition of the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell's 1984, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen A Penguin Vitae Edition In a glass-enclosed city of abs ...Show more
White Fang by Jack London
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift S.
A classic adventure novel detailing the savagery of life in the northern wilds. Its central character is a ferocious and magnificent creature, half dog, half wolf, through whose experiences we feel the harsh rhythms and patterns of wilderness life among animals and men.
White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett (Translator)
Category: Classic | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
William Butler Yeats - Early Poems by W. B. Yeats
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
One of the greatest poets of any century, the Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for much of his early poetry. Mythic themes as well as many other topics are masterfully explored in this rich selection of 134 lyrics chiefly selected from six ...Show more