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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author), J. Lyndon Shanley (Editor), John Updike (Introduction by)One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thorea...

Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Edmond Rostand (Author), Christopher Fry (Author), Nicholas Cronk (Introduction by)Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late...

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)Six essays and one address outline Emerson's moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the Harvard Divinity School Address.Back JacketEssayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression. The s...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author), Jeffrey S. Cramer (Author)The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."--Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed This is the authoritative edition of an American literary classic: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, an elegantly written rec...

Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Paul B. Preciado (Author)A revolutionary book tracing the collapse of the paradigms that have organized the world for centuries In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado, best known for his 2013 cult classic Testo Junkie, has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry, and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking account of the societal convulsions that ha...

Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

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Report copyright infringementby Tove Jansson (Author)The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of the world's largest newspaper, the London Evening News, in 19...

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author), Damion Searls (Editor), John R. Stilgoe (Preface by)The largest one-volume edition of Thoreau's 25-year journal, with "some of the most vigorous and original prose in English" and insights on Walden and other works (Washington Post). Henry David Thoreau's Journal was his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Aa VV (Author)Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.IN THIS VOLUME: Underground Tenochtitlan by Guadalupe Nettel - Crime and (No) Punishment by Juan Villoro - The Birth of Fridolatry by Valeria Luiselli - plus: the cocaine that washes in from the sea and the pearl of the west, the jungle train and the last stop on the line, femicide and TikTok politics, mole, rice, the Virgin of Guad...

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

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Report copyright infringementby Rax King (Author)An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss--from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column "Store-Bought Is Fine" Tacky is about the power of pop culture--like any art--to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" tas...

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Report copyright infringementby Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author), Marjorie Perloff (Translator)During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been ...

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Ginsberg (Author)Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but for his actions as a human rights activist who championed the sexu...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Lutz (Author)Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and productivity. Aimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering, lingering, sitting, laying about, daydreaming, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Charlie Louth (Translator), Lewis Hyde (Introduction by)Rainer Maria Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself. These profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for generations of writers and artists o...

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Report copyright infringementby Brooke Larson (Author)Nominated for the 2020 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction and the 2020 Association for Mormon Letters Award for Creative Nonfiction! Brooke Larson's essay collection Pleasing Tree explores the human relationship with the wilderness. Beginning with a Mormon-founded experiment in primitive survival, teenagers hike the Arizona desert while Larson shines light on the effects of prolonged exposure to the outdoors, to lands consider...

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

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Report copyright infringementby Arundhati Roy (Author)"Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." --Howard Zinn "Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." --Naomi Klein "The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating." --The New York Times Book Review Bookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small T...

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Report copyright infringementby Susana Jiménez-Mueller (Author), Betty Viamontes (Author)El vuelo del tocororo es un homenaje a la libertad, la resiliencia y al espíritu indomable de quienes se vieron obligados a abandonar su patria.Nombrada en honor al ave nacional de Cuba, el tocororo -un pájaro que, según la tradición, muere en cautiverio-, esta colección simboliza el anhelo de libertad que ha acompañado a generaciones de cubanos. Como escribió Daniel (2020): No es posible mantener a esta ...

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Report copyright infringementby Niccolò Machiavelli (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 impo...

Willis the Pilot: A Sequel to The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family

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Report copyright infringementby Wyss Johann David (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 import...

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Report copyright infringementby John R. Swanton (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 importan...

The Art of Teaching and Studying Language

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Report copyright infringementby François Gouin (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 Shedlock Marie L (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 importa...

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Hugo (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 en...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Rann Kennedy (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 imp...

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Report copyright infringementby Moliere (Created by)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 en...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Four Comedies of William Shakespeare is a collection of four of the most popular comedic plays written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare. The book includes The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice. In The Taming of the Shrew, the story follows the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, a headstrong woman who must be ""tamed"" in order to be married. A Midsummer Night's Dr...

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Report copyright infringementby Maksim Gorky (Author), Jenny Covan (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 th...

In Ole Virginia: Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Nelson Page (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 impor...

Shakespear Illustrated: Or the Novels and Histories, On Which the Plays of Shakespear Are Founded: Collected and Translated From the Original

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Lennox (Author), Samuel Johnson (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, ...

Is Shakespeare Dead?: From My Autobiography

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author) "From away back toward the very beginning of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy I have been on the Bacon side, and have wanted to see our majestic Shakespeare unhorsed. My reasons for this attitude may have been good, they may have been bad, but such as they were, they strongly influenced me."-Mark Twain (1909) Is Shakespeare Dead?-From My Autobiography (1909), by Mark Twain, is about the age-old debate whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. ...

Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story Of Tito And Mihailovich

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Report copyright infringementby David Martin (Author), Rebecca West (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 410 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 27, 2012

Letters of Jane Austen: Selected From the Compilation of Her Great Nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Coolidge Sarah Chaunce Austen (Author)This volume of selected letters from Jane Austen provides a unique and intimate view into the life and thoughts of the beloved author. Through her correspondence with family and friends, readers will gain insights into Austen's writing process, relationships, and opinions on contemporary society. With an introduction by Austen's great nephew Edward, Lord Brabourne, this book is a must-read for fans of Jane Austen.This...

General Grant's Letters to a Friend, 1861-1880

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Report copyright infringementby Ulysses Simpson Grant (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 im...