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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A Doll's House (Bokmål: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th-centu ...Show more
Anthem by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
"One of the most unique and perceptive writers of our time." The New York Times. The author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged recounts the tale of a dystopia in which all traces of individualism have been eliminated from every aspect of life. In this brief, captivating novel, Ayn Rand anticipates t ...Show more
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
One of Western culture's most enduring myths recounts a learned German doctor's sale of his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe transformed the Faust legend into the English language's first epic tragedy, a vivid drama that abounds in psychol ...Show more
Enchiridion by EPICTETUS
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
A first-century Stoic, Epictetus argued that we will always be happy if we learn to desire that things should be exactly as they are. His Enchiridion, or Manual, is a distillation of his teachings and an instructional manual for a tranquil life as it offers guidelines for those seeking contentment.
Poor Folk by Constance Black (TRN) Fyodor; Garnett Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Thrift Edition
The Dover Anthology of Very Short Literature by Nicholas Z. Kay
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
With an extraordinary blend of short fiction, poems, philosophy, and beyond, The Dover Anthology of Very Short Literature rediscovers the value of the commonplace book. Since the days of antiquity, readers, writers, students, and scholars have used commonplace books as aids for remembering useful concep ...Show more
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
All human behaviors and traits, according to this 1923 study, derive from the complicated interactions of three elements of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego. The root of Sigmund Freud's approach to psychiatric treatment resides in bringing the id, the hidden source of human passion, to the ...Show more
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis; Aloysius Croft & Harold Bolton (Translators)
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Category: Religion | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious thought — have studied these meditations on the life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them a path to prayer a ...Show more
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details -- as Gogol put it -- "to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary." Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and significant today as they were to readers generations ago ...Show more
The Strenuous Life - Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Politician, soldier, naturalist, and historian -- a century after the peak of his multifaceted career, Theodore Roosevelt remains a towering symbol of American optimism and progress. This collection of speeches and commentaries from 1899 through 1901 embodies the Rough Rider's enduring ideals for attain ...Show more
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