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The Elder Edda
By Anonymous ., Andy Orchard, Andrew Orchard, Edited With An Introduction, Anonymous; Translated, Notes By Andy Orchard
Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant...
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American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920
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The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migration and racial tension. This period of time saw t...
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An Apology for Raymond Sebond
An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century...
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The Essays
By Michel De Montaigne, Michel Montaigne, Montaigne, Michel De, Edited With An Introduction, Michel De Montaigne; Translated, Notes By M. A. Screech
A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an...
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Njal'S Saga
By Robert Cook, Anonymous, Leifur Eiricksson, Edited With An Introduction, Anonymous; Translated, Notes By Robert Cook, ليفور إيريكسون & مجهول
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the t...
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Hindu Myths
By Anonymous
Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the...
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The Joyous Science
By Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche; Translated, Edited With An Introduction, Notes By R. Kevin Hill
Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," Nietzsche's most personal book--and one of his bestA Penguin ClassicThe Joyous Science--also known as The Gay Science and The Joyful Wisdom--is a l...
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The Bible
By Anonymous, David Norton, Edited With An Introduction, Notes By David Norton
The King James Bible or Authorized Version (1611) comprises the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and the New Testament, from God's creation of the heaven and earth and the fall of man in Genesis, throu...
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Women's Early American Historical Narratives
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This fascinating collection presents a rare look at women writers' first-hand perspectives on early American history. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries many women authors began...
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The Penguin Book Of Gaslight Crime
By Michael Sims, Edited With An Introduction, Notes By Michael Sims, Sims, Michael (Editor)
An exclusive collectionthe first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are prese...
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