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A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | Series: Classics Ser.
In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man�s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies ...Show more
A Dutiful Daughter by Thomas Keneally; Geordie Williamson (Introduction by)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.Barbara Glover?s parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family?s remote ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Nativity by BLOOMSBURY
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Category: Small Pleasures | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
You know the story ...Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to find there's no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you've never seen it before: with (yo ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
A Little Princess (Bath Treasury) by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Manga Classics by William Shakespeare; Crystal S. Chan (Adapted by); Poe Tse (Other)
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Category: No Category | Series: Manga Classics Ser.
A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest. ...Show more
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise ...Show more
A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The frank and intimate journey of self-discovery by author, critic and arts commentator Robert Dessaix. Confronting, revealing and candid, the book traces his life from adoption towards the end of World War II, to a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, to his fascination with Russia and his t ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Secondhand. Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The G ...Show more
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspire ...Show more