The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records
By: Sima Qian
3.43
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately ad…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Nibelungenlied
By: Unknown , A.T. Hatto
3.82
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reach… read more
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3. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
4. Antony and Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more
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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"...make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
5. Closely Watched Trains
By: Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter
3.74
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Bohumil Hrabal's post-war classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovak… read more
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"آن غرش و سر و صدای یک قطار در حال حرکت،همیشه یکسان است،درست مثل زمان صلح که قطار، هر شب، مربعها و مستطیلهای نور را از پنجرههای درخشان خود میپراکند."-Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains
6. 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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"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
7. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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8. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more
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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
9. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
10. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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11. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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- read for school
"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
12. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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13. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
14. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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15. The Pillow Book
By: Sei Shōnagon , Ivan Morris
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the … read more
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16. Defence Speeches
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero , D.H. Berry
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
'But I must stop now, I can no longer speak for tears--and my client has ordered that tears are not… read more
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17. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
18. The Phantom Tollbooth
By: Jules Feiffer , Norton Juster
4.20
Format: 24 pages,
Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click . Hailed as "a classic. .… read more
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19. The Box Man
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative f… read more
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20. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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21. The Social Contract and Discourses
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , G.D.H. Cole , None
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Inspired by ancient Greek city states, Rousseau searched for a way which states of his day could be… read more
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22. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
23. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
24. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
25. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
26. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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27. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
By: Shelley Parker-Chan
4.25
Format: 486 pages, ebook
How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more
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"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
28. Sands of Dune: A Collection
By: Brian Herbert
3.84
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Collected for the first time, these Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J.… read more
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29. Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
By: Fernando Cervantes
3.90
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, authoritative history that aims to deepen our understanding of the campaigns and conque… read more
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30. The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records
By: Sima Qian
3.43
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately ad… read more
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31. The State is the Enemy: Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice (Kelman Library Book 3)
By: James Kelman
4.44
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemy lay bare government bruta… read more
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