Literature
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Snuggly Tales of Hashish and Opium"What benevolent demon must I thank for thus surrounding me with mystery, silence, peace and perfumes? O bliss That which we ordinarily call life, even when it can encompass happiness, has nothing to compare with this life beyond life which I have come to...
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The Rebirth of African CivilizationThe book is an affirmation of education and an espousal of cooperative democracy as a way of life for the new Africa. It contains as well a report on social studies of African life. It also expounds on the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of...
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MeditationsNothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.Throughout his life, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius kept notes for self improvement, and Meditations is a collaboration of these notes ranging from a single sentence to long paragraphs. Segmented into...
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The Majesty of Calmness: Individual problems and possibilitiesCalmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centred, self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious...
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Heart of DarknessHeart of Darkness is a novella written in 1899 by Anglo-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad. It is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow, an introspective sailor who takes a job as a riverboat...
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EmmaFrom what acclaimed novelist Jane Austen wrongly suspected was the least-liked of her protagonists comes a character unlike any other. Emma is the story of a fiercely independent young woman who defines the boundaries of what a conventional lady was supposed to resemble in...
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Of ColourLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. OF COLOUR is an experimental essay about color, hybridity, and art-making. It is a memoir of Agyemaa Agard's coming to North America and encountering binaries of black and white within global anti-blackness. It is a manifesto for an experience of...
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Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the LibraryIn most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital...
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Moonlight and MountainsAUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAINT SERIES, B.N. RUNDELL, TAKES US ON AN EPIC JOURNEY IN BOOK FOUR OF THE STONECROFT SAGA.Louisiana Territory had been the exclusive domain of Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, seeking to fill their larders with...
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Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker's award-winning longtime book criticEver since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays...
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Night on the Milky Way TrainROGER PULVERS'S ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION of Night on the Milky Way Train, previously available only in a bilingual edition in Japan, is here now for readers of all ages around the world to enjoy.Night on the Milky Way Train occupies the place in the literature...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer AND The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged. Complete with all original illustrations)"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . It is the best book we have." -- Ernest Hemingway Complete and unabridged. Includes 335 original illustrations. Crisp text set in modern easily read font.Mark Twain's characters...
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What Cartooning Really Is: The Major Interviews with Charles M. SchulzEverybody knows the iconic characters of Peanuts, but few are privy to the character of the man who created this beloved cast and the world they inhabit--Charles M. Schulz. To illuminate the life story and rich inner life of the renowned cartoonist, Fantagraphics presents...
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In the Wake of the Willows (2nd Edition): A Sequel to Kenneth Grahame's, The Wind in the WillowsA New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very special river. For like their relatives on the other side of the ocean, this river had its...
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Arsene Lupin, Gentleman BurglarIt was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship 'La Provence' was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man. The passengers constituted a select and delightful society. The...
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An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any...
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An Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and SlowThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of...
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Prefecture D: Four NovellasA collection of tense thrilllers, each centered on a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it, set in the world of Hideo Yokoyama's bestselling Six Four. Four novellas: Each taking place in 1998. SEASON OF SHADOWSThe force could lose face . ....
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Walking in Berlin: A Flaneur in the CapitalThe first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin.Franz Hessel (1880-1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Berlin, studied in Munich, and then lived in Paris, where he moved in artistic and literary circles. His relationship with the fashion...
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Of Course I Talk To Myself. Sometimes I Need Expert Advice Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book, Funny Quotes, Sayings, Best Gift, Colleague, Friend,An adult coloring book with 50 models, high quality, it would be the best gift for someone you love. We left the back of the papers empty to protect the main models from the colors, so you could do coloring without ruining the main...
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