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Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Acclaimed by The Guardian as "one of the best novels of the twentieth century," Thomas Mann's landmark work chronicles the decline of four generations of a German merchant clan. Ranging from 1835 to 1877, the semi-autobiographical tale traces the dissolution of the family's bonds and traditions in the f ...Show more
Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Here, in a dazzling panoply, are the legendary figures from the age of chivalry: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Richard the Lionhearted and his crusaders, and a host of other famous and lesser-known characters. This collection includes tales from Camelot, dramatic narratives ...Show more
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn.Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is ...Show more
Carry on, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Bertie Wooster's life is in disarray. He has just fired his personal valet for stealing and his fiancée Florence wants Bertie to destroy his uncle's memoirs. And then everything changes. He hires Jeeves as his valet and Jeeves takes charge. His taste is impeccable, his judgment infallible. Bertie and hi ...Show more
Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Other Poems by James Joyce
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
James Joyce (1882-1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction, and his experimental use of language and stream of consciousness continues to captivate, intrigue, and influence readers and writers. Universally known for his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), an ...Show more
Cicero's Orations by Marcus Tullius Cicero; Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The greatest orator of the late Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), influenced the course of European letters for centuries after his death. Through his writings, Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars encountered the riches of Classical rhetoric and philosophy. The elegance of his styl ...Show more
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (PB) by Henry Thoreau
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
American author, naturalist, and abolitionist, Henry David Thoreau was a principal figure of the 19th century movement of Transcendentalism. Central to the philosophy is a belief that people, who are inherently good, are corrupted by the organized institutions of society and that consequently the best c ...Show more
Country Scandal Platonov by Chekhov Anton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A Russian version of Don Juan is the focus of Chekhov's first play, a farce in which a newly arrived schoolmaster proves irresistible to the bored women of a provincial community. Platonov's charm lies in his novelty, and his seductions are strictly passive as a libidinous widow, her idealistic stepdaug ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
Reprint of the standard 1914 C. Garnett translation. Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking work, considered one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy, exploring the limits of human knowledge and understanding of metaphysics. Kant responds to the notions of the empiricists (such as John Locke and David Hume) and the rationalists (such as Gott ...Show more
Dark Princess - A Romance by W. E. B. Du Bois
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Black History Ser.
Disillusioned with the United States after being expelled from medical school because of his race, Matthew Towns, a young African American man, moves to Berlin, Germany, where he meets and falls in love with Kautilya, a princess from India. They become members of an international coalition against white ...Show more
Dark Reflections by Samuel R Delany
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"A writer of seemingly limitless range." -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours. This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. The tale unfolds in three non-chronological parts, starting in the twenty-first century with H ...Show more