Dover Thrift Editions
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Rhetoric
$10.00 Add to cartOne of the seminal works of Western philosophy, Aristotle’s Rhetoric vastly influenced all subsequent thought on the subject — philosophical, political, and literary. Focusing on the use of language
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437930
- Language: English
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Dracula
$8.00 Add to cartDuring a business visit to Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phant… [more below]
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- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411095
- Language: English
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Frankenstein
$6.00 Add to cartFew creatures of horror have seized readers’ imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and th
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- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486282112
- Language: English
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Hamlet
$5.00 Read moreIn this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince’s halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spell
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- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 1992
- ISBN10: 0486272788
- Language: English
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Orthodoxy
$7.00 Add to cartOrthodoxy, as G. K. Chesterton employs the term here, means “right opinion.” In this, the masterpiece of his brilliant literary career, he applies the concept of correct reasoning to his acceptance of… [more below]
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- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 048684336X
- Language: English
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The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories
$5.00 Add to cartOne of James’s finest moments, “The Beast in the Jungle” is a portrait of a man alienated from life and love. Also includes “The Jolly Corner” and “The Altar of the Dead.” Note.
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- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 23 1993
- ISBN10: 0486275523
- Language: English
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Grimm’s Fairy Tales
$8.00 Read moreEarly in the nineteenth century, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled a collection of stories to preserve the folklore of their native Germany. Forty-three of them — fairy tales, some deliciously dark, t… [more below]
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- Author: Grimm, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0486456560
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$10.00 Add to cartConsidered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Bront , was asked to pay some of the publicatio
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- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 1996
- ISBN10: 0486292568
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground
$5.00 Add to cartIn 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels — Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly … [more below]
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- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 21 1992
- ISBN10: 048627053X
- Language: English
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Humorous American Short Stories: Selections from Mark Twain, O. Henry, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and More
$8.00 Read moreIncludes James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a 2013 motion picture! Spanning nearly 300 years of American humor, this anthology of entertaining tales ranges from the inventive mind of B… [more below]
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- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 21 2013
- ISBN10: 048649988X
- Language: English
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Spoon River Anthology
$12.00 Read moreIn Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly f
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- Author: Masters, Edgar Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0486272753
- Language: English
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Physics
$11.00 Read moreWritten in the fourth century BCE by Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, Physics set out to define the principles and causes of change, movement, and motion. For 2,000 years ― until disco… [more below]
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- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0486813517
- Language: English
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Faust: Parts One and Two
$18.00 Read moreThe best-known work of the Enlightenment literary giant Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust took a lifetime to write. For more than sixty years, Goethe worked on his masterpiece and ultimately divided i… [more below]
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- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0486821889
- Language: English
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A Boy’s Will and North of Boston
$5.00 Add to cartAlthough Robert Frost (1874-1963) wrote poetry throughout his youth and early adult years, his first collection of poems was not published until he was nearly 40 years old. And, ironically, it was not… [more below]
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- Author: Frost, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268667
- Language: English
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Pensées
$10.00 Read moreI know of no religious writer more pertinent to our time. — T. S. Eliot, Introduction to Pens?es
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true, declared Pascal in his Pens?es. The c… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0486821501
- Language: English
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The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure: Richard Connell, Jack London, O. Henry, Clark Ashton Smith, John Kruse & Rudyard Kipling
$8.00 Read moreReaders seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories, beginning with The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, one of the best… [more below]
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- Author: Connell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0486848221
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$9.00 Read moreHailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental confl
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- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0486411087
- Language: English
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Politics
$12.00 Read moreIntellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Famed Jowett translation of Aristotle’s masterwork.
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- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414248
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
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- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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A Room with a View
$8.00 Read moreIn common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in the early 20th ce… [more below]
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- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284670
- Language: English
