Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
By: Herman Melville , John Bryant
3.56
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay,…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking."-Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
"Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking."-Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
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1. The Marx-Engels Reader
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Robert C. Tucker
3.98
Format: 788 pages, Paperback
This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx … read more
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- classics
"Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself freely in productive activity. He had been driven to produce by need and greed, …"-Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader
"It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as such antitheses in the soc…"-Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader
"Hegel represents history as the self-realization of spirit (Geist) or God. The fundamental scheme of his theory is as follows. Spirit is self-creative energy imbued with a drive to become fully consc…"-Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader
2. The Country of the Pointed Firs
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a small, coastal town in Maine, this enduring sequence of intimate stories has assumed its r… read more
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3. Our Nig
By: Harriet E. Wilson , P. Gabrielle Foreman , Reginald Pitts
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Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of t… read more
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4. Hobomok Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child
By: Carolyn L. Karcher , Lydia Maria Child
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an… read more
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5. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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6. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
By: James Fenimore Cooper
3.70
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more
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"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
7. Tropic of Orange
By: Karen Tei Yamashita
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This fiercely satirical, semifantastical novel ... features an Asian-American television news execu… read more
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8. Mary: A Fiction
By: Mary Wollstonecraft
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mary: A Fiction is the only complete novel by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft… read more
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9. Melville: His World and Work
By: Andrew Delbanco
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential Americ… read more
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10. Why Read Moby-Dick?
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.75
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject… read more
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"As Starbuck discovers, simply being a good guy with a positive worldview is not enough to stop a force of nature like Ahab, who feeds on the fears and hatreds in us all."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"This is where Melville is perhaps the most profound in his portrait of Ahab as the demagogue and dictator. In the end, even the fiercest of tyrants is done in, not by his own sad, used-up self, but b…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Ishmael says it best: "For all men tragically great are made so through a certain…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To write timelessly about the here and now, a writer must approach the present indirectly. The story has to be about more than it at first seems. Shakespeare used the historical sources of his plays …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
11. Hind Swaraj and Other Writings
By: Mahatma Gandhi , Anthony J. Parel , John Dunn , Geoffrey Hawthorn
3.12
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Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work, and a key to the understanding both of his life a… read more
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12. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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13. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
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Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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14. The Bridge of Beyond
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2.75
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This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the gr… read more
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15. The Book of Margery Kempe
By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more
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16. The Skull
By: Philip K. Dick
3.78
Format: 416 pages,
Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man… read more
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17. My Bondage and My Freedom
By: Frederick Douglass , John David Smith
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following … read more
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18. My World and Welcome to It
By: James Thurber
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
James Thurber reported the world as he saw it. But what a world! Only Thurber could picture a seal … read more
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19. The Blithedale Romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Classic novel set in 19th-century New England, and drawing on the au… read more
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20. A Simple Heart
By: Gustave Flaubert , Arthur McDowall
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A Simple Heart, also published as A Simple Soul. In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspire… read more
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21. The Mayor of MacDougal Street
By: Dave Van Ronk , Elijah Wald
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far… 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. The Black Arrow
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure… read more
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"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
24. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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25. Closing Time (Catch-22, #2)
By: Joseph Heller
3.33
Format: 300 pages,
A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. In Closing Time,Joseph Heller… read more
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26. The Prairie (Leatherstocking Tales, #5)
By: James Fenimore Cooper , None
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the 3rd novel written by him featur… read more
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27. The Kalevala
By: Anonymous , Elias Lönnrot , Keith Bosley
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich or… read more
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28. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
By: Herman Melville , John Bryant
3.56
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay,… read more
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"Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking."-Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
29. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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30. A Bird in the House
By: Margaret Laurence
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Canada's most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and t… read more
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