Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.12
Format: 43 pages, Audible Audio
1. Foundations 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh 3. Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis 4. The Deut…
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1. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
By: Timothy Snyder
4.30
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieva… read more
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- history
2. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- literature
- classic literature
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
3. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
4. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
By: Susan Wise Bauer
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the worl… read more
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- history
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6. Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything
By: Dorsey Armstrong
3.64
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
Tap into the power of effective writing by developing the fundamental critical and analytical skill… read more
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7. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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8. Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation
By: Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman , Dirk Maggs , Peter Serafinowicz , None
3.15
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's apocalyptic comic novel. A… read more
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9. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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10. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)
By: Bob Brier
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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11. American Identity
By: Patrick N. Allitt
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Audible Audio
What defines an American? Is it the love of liberty, the pursuit of justice, the urge to invent, th… read more
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12. Great Minds of the Medieval World
By: Dorsey Armstrong
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Audible Audio
The Middle Ages was a time of major advances in many fields of knowledge, from theology and philoso… read more
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13. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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14. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Great Books
By: Grant L. Voth
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Hamlet. Moby-Dick. War and Peace. Ulysses. These are just four of what are considered the "Great Bo… read more
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15. Classics of British Literature
By: John Sutherland
3.83
Format: 32 pages,
For more than 1,500 years, the literature of Great Britain has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged… read more
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16. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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17. No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life (Great Courses, #437)
By: Robert C. Solomon
3.85
Format: 208 pages,
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18. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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- history
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
19. The Secret History of Christmas
By: Bill Bryson
3.84
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more
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20. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.08
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more
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21. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.16
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more
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22. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
By: John McWhorter
3.99
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more
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23. Books that Matter: The City of God
By: Charles T. Mathewes
4.03
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
Augustine of Hippo's masterpiece The City of God is one of the greatest books ever written, yet its… read more
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"Augustine [of Hippo] knew the power and the danger of idolatry and celebrity. And he knew the danger of both was first to permit the idolater to offload the duty of thinking onto their idol. And seco…"-Charles T. Mathewes, Books that Matter: The City of God
24. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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25. Why Evil Exists
By: Charles T. Mathewes
4.09
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Presents historical, religious and philosophical explanations for the existence of evil. read more
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26. How to Say It: Words That Make a Difference
By: Allison Friederichs Atkison
3.47
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take… read more
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27. Archaeology: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Sites
By: Eric H. Cline
4.18
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 12 hours and 41 minutes The work of archaeologists has commanded worldwide att… read more
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28. 36 Books That Changed the World
By: Andrew R. Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Certain works of literature, history, science, philosophy, political theory and religion offer powe… read more
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29. Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
By: Michael Sugrue
4.21
Format: 12 pages, Audio CD
Socrates was driven by a love for truth so great that he suffered death rather than give up his sea… read more
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30. The Western Literary Canon in Context
By: John M. Bowers
4.10
Format: 19 pages, Audio CD
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here The Western literary canon has come to epitom… read more
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31. Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.12
Format: 43 pages, Audible Audio
1. Foundations 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh 3. Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis 4. The Deut… read more
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- literary criticism
