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Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Franz Kafka (Author), Ernst Kaiser (Translator), Eithne Wilkins (Translator)A son's poignant letter to his father--from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. - "One of the great confessions of literature." --The New York Times Book Review Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Swanton (Author)The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated. Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle marks the beginning of the unmannered simplicity of English prose. Immediately striking are the accounts of the Danish invasions and the unhappiness of Stephen's reign, together with the lyrical poem on the Battle o...

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Baldwin Ross (Author), Aubrey Beardsley (Author)Oscar Wilde's "Salomé A Tragedy in One Act" is a captivating and timeless play that explores themes of desire, power, and obsession within a biblical context. This meticulously prepared edition presents Wilde's singular vision of the infamous story. Set against a backdrop of religious and political intrigue, the play unfolds as a gripping one-act drama. A classic of European literature...

The Princess Far-Away: A Romantic Tragedy in Four Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Edmond Rostand (Author)Experience the beauty and drama of love across borders and cultures with this timeless play by Edmond Rostand. Set in medieval Spain, The Princess Far-Away follows the story of a young princess who falls in love with a Christian knight, sparking a conflict that threatens to tear apart their families and their hearts.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles F. Haanel (Author)Here are the secrets to Mental Chemistry; in this book you will learn how to improve your life by removing some kinds of thoughts and adding others. It works much like conventional chemistry; if you change the elements in a molecule you change the molecule. By changing elements of the way you think you will learn how to become a different, better, happier, and more successful you. Long before Michael Losier and James Arthur Ray reminde...

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Report copyright infringementby Katharine St Hill (Created by)Unlock the mysteries of the human hand with Katharine St. Hill's The Grammar of Palmistry. In this engaging guide, Hill provides a comprehensive overview of palmistry and its history. She breaks down the elements of the hand and how they are interpreted in palmistry. With its easy-to-understand language and helpful illustrations, The Grammar of Palmistry is a great resource for anyone interested in the art of palm reading.This work...

Killing no Murder: Briefly Discoursed in Three Questions

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Sexby (Author)This book contains a discourse by Edward Sexby on the question of whether killing a tyrant is justifiable. The discourse is presented in three questions and provides a unique insight into the political ideology of the period. The book is a valuable resource for those interested in political philosophy and history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we kn...

Tom Brown's School-days, By An Old Boy [t. Hughes]. Abridged

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Hughes (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

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Report copyright infringementby H. G. Wells (Author)An 1897 collection of essays selected by H. G. Wells from among the many short essays and ephemeral pieces he had written since 1893. The book consists of thirty-nine pieces ranging from about eight hundred to two thousand words in length. A one-shilling reprint (two shillings in cloth) was issued in 1901 by T. Fisher Unwin. The essays in Certain Personal Matters are written from a consistent first-person perspective, but only one (ironicall...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Author)Comparatively little has been written about the life of MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. The two authorities upon the subject are Godwin and Mr. C. Kegan Paul. In writing the following Biography I have relied chiefly upon the Memoir written by the former, and the Life of Godwin and Prefatory Memoir to the Letters to Imlay of the latter. I have endeavored to supplement the facts recorded in these books by a careful analysis of Mary Wollstone...

Six Lectures On Painting: Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, January, 1904

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Report copyright infringementby George Clausen (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration

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Report copyright infringementby John Locke (Author)A highly influential figure in the Age of Enlightenment in England and France, whose works helped inspire the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, John Locke was one of the most important political theorists in Western history. In The Second Treatise of Government, a major contribution to the principles underlying modern democracies, he achieved two objectives: refuting the concept of the divine right of monarchy, and establ...

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Report copyright infringementby Manly P. Hall (Author)2015 Reprint of 1934 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Comprises Chapter XVI of Hall's "Man: The Grand Symbol of the Mysteries." Scientists refer to the pineal gland as the "atrophied third eye." Indeed, it, along with the pituitary, is the third eye chakra or energy center, but are more dormant than atrophied. According to Max Heindel's, in the distant past, man was in touch...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A Guardian Book of the YearA lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, T...

William F. Tolmie at Fort Nisqually: Letters, 1850-1853

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Report copyright infringementby Steve A. Anderson (Editor), Jerry V. Ramsey (Introduction by)Scottish-born Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) Chief Trader William Fraser Tolmie took charge of Fort Nisqually and its outstations in 1843. The first white settlement on Puget Sound, it functioned as a vital communications, banking, and shipping center, as well as a commodities and livestock broker, annually exporting tons of hides and produce. The International Boundary Treaty of 1846 between Great Britai...

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Report copyright infringementby Hereward Carrington (Author)2021 Reprint of the 1912 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is Carrington's attempt to prove from comparative anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and hygiene, that the original, best and natural diet of man is fruit and nuts. Hereward Carrington was a well-known British investigator and author. He wrote over 100 books on subjects including the paranormal and psychica...

Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life

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Report copyright infringementby Nora Shalaway Carpenter (Author), Sean Petrie (Author), Erin Entrada Kelly (Author)A guidebook for creativesFeaturing contributions from a diverse group of over 30 nationally-celebrated authors and Western NC powerhouse creatives, Spinning Toward the Sun offers insights on persevering in the creative journey, along with specifics about craft.100% of proceeds to Hurricane Helene recoveryWith all of its proceeds donated to Beloved Asheville and World Central Kitc...

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Report copyright infringementby Terry Tempest Williams (Author)Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: "How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?" We know the element...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author)Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ... learn what it had to teach." Toward that end Thoreau built a cabin in the spring of 1845 on the shores of Walden Pond -- on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- outside Concord, Massachusetts. There he ...

Self Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life

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Report copyright infringementby H. Spencer Lewis (Author)2015 Reprint of 1929 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book reveals how we may take advantage of certain periods to bring success, happiness, health and prosperity into our lives, and it likewise points out those periods that are not favorable for many of the things we try to achieve. It does not deal with astrology or any system of fortune telling, but presents a sys...

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Report copyright infringementby The New Yorker Magazine (Author), Henry Finder (Editor), David Remnick (Introduction by)This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia--featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s by some of today's finest writers. The New Yorker was there in real time, c...

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Report copyright infringementby Noel Coward (Author), Noël Coward (Author), Barry Day (Editor)Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from the great English playwright provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. "Superb.... The portrait of a complex, charming, driven, serious and, frankly, courageous artist." --The Wall Street Journal The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Louis (Author), Edward J. Mallory (Editor)2021 Reprint of the 1948 Edition. Profusely Illustrated. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In words and action photographs, Joe Louis-one of the greatest heavyweight champ of all time-explains the techniques he used successfully in his boxing career. This pamphlet, originally published in 1948, introduced a whole new generation of enthusiasts eager to learn boxin...

The Fun of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian Ross (Editor), David Remnick (Introduction by), E. B. White (Author)William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way. The Fun of It is the first ant...

Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Alden Jones (Editor), Andrew Ellis Evans (Contribution by), Nicole Shawan Junior (Contribution by)An inclusive LGBTQ+ travel anthology, Edge of the World explores what it means to be a queer person moving through the world.These lively essays by luminary writers offer a queer perspective on how people experience other cultures and how other cultures receive queer people. This anthology of essays includes the perspectives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and tr...

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Report copyright infringementby H. Spencer Lewis (Author)2015 Reprint of Original 1938 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, also called the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC), is a worldwide philosophical and humanistic, fraternal order devoted to "the study of the elusive mysteries of life and the universe." The organization is non-sectarian and it is open to both men and women of adult age reg...

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

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Report copyright infringementby Miklos Nyiszli (Author), Bruno Bettelheim (Foreword by), Tibere Kremer (Translator)2020 Reprint of the 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they shipped virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz, the most infamous of all concentration camps. There, separated from his family, Dr. Nyiszli was chosen to perform "scientific research" on his fellow...

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Report copyright infringementby John Dee (Author)2018 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Hieroglyphic Monad is an esoteric symbol invented and designed by John Dee, the Elizabethan Magus and Court Astrologer of Elizabeth I of England. The Hieroglyphic embodies Dee's vision of the unity of the Cosmos and is a composite of various esoteric and astrological symbols. Dee wrote a commentary on it which serves as a ...

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Pub

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Ginsberg (Author)"Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius...probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman." --Bob DylanFirst published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Blake F. Donaldson (Author), Charles G. Heyd (Author)2021 Reprint of the 1962 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Donaldson advocated fresh fat meat, water, and exercise to treat allergies, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, gallstones and obesity. The book described "the big bad seven" foods: milk, cream, ice cream, eggs, cheese, chocolate and flour which should be eliminated from the di...

Duchamp on Tape: The Janis Family Interviews

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Report copyright infringementby Marcel Duchamp (Artist), Ann Temkin (Editor), Carroll Janis (Introduction by)One of the towering figures of 20th-century art holds forth on his controversial life and career in a previously unpublished set of interviewsOver six sessions between September 1951 and November 1952, Marcel Duchamp sat down with collectors and gallerists Harriet and Sidney Janis for a wide-ranging conversation about his inspirations and working processes, and his many opinions on the...

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Report copyright infringementby Sun Tzu (Author)"There's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it." -- Newsweek Regarded as the world's oldest military treatise, this compact volume has instructed officers and tacticians for more than 2,000 years. From its origins in China, The Art of War traveled the world to inform the strategies of Napoleon and World War II generals. More recently, it has taken on a new life as a guide to competing successfully in business, law, and sports.All of The ...