The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World, Volume I
By: Mortimer J. Adler
4.40
Format: 1082 pages, Hardcover
Great Books of the Western World, Volume 2 of 54 The collection compiles history's greatest writ…
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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. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- classics
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
3. 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
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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
4. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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- classics
"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
5. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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- classics
6. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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7. London Fields
By: Martin Amis
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searchi… read more
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8. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more
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- history
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
9. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
10. 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
11. Herodotus | Thucydides (Great Books of the Western World, #6)
By: Herodotus , George Rawlinson , Thucydides , Richard Crawley , None
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Contents: The History of Herodotus The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides read more
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12. The Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more
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13. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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- literature
- classics
"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
14. White Fang
By: Jack London , K.A. Applegate
4.02
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he … read more
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"He was a silent fury who no torment could tame."-Jack London, White Fang
"Các sự vật không phải bao giờ cũng đúng như vẻ bề ngoài."-Jack London, White Fang
"Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway."-Jack London, White Fang
"Got to take a gamble. The only way to find out is to find out."-Jack London, White Fang
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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"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. Elektra
By: Jennifer Saint
3.68
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more
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"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"-Jennifer Saint, Elektra
17. The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World, Volume I
By: Mortimer J. Adler
4.40
Format: 1082 pages, Hardcover
Great Books of the Western World, Volume 2 of 54 The collection compiles history's greatest writ… read more
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