A Brief History of the Romans
By: Mary T. Boatwright
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the mightiest …
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1. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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- classics
"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
2. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
3. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
By: Vine Deloria Jr. , Leslie Marmon Silko
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Redremains the seminal work on Native religious … read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Hadji Murad
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Ch… read more
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- classics
5. A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society and Culture
By: Sarah B. Pomeroy , Stanley Mayer Burstein , Walter Donlan
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A s… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- textbooks
6. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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- read for school
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
7. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
8. The Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more
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- classics
"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
9. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
10. Odes and Epodes
By: Horatius , Niall Rudd
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private con… read more
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- ancient history
- classics
11. The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
By: Theodor Mommsen
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with stran… read more
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12. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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13. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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14. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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- college
- nonfiction
- classics
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
15. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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- classics
"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
16. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
17. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1
By: Kentaro Miura
4.60
Format: 689 pages, Hardcover
Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and ani… read more
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"It's your life. Do what you want with it."-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1
"Ambition comes with a price attached. Of course, that price comes too high if you die for nothing. The reward for ambition too great... is self-destruction!"-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1
18. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2
By: Kentaro Miura
4.73
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The reigning king of adult fantasy manga now in deluxe 7x10 hardcover editions! Born in tragedy, ra… read more
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"Why is it that men enjoy little more than shedding blood?"-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2
19. Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire (Graphic History Series)
By: Jennifer A. Rea
3.77
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Ge… read more
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20. A Brief History of the Romans
By: Mary T. Boatwright
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the mightiest … read more
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21. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
