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100 Favorite English and Irish Poems by Clarence C. Strowbridge (Editor)
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This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English--from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insig ...Show more
100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A remarkable celebration of America's literary legacy, this superb selection includes the very best tales from the 19th and 20th centuries. Features "The Man With Two Lives," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "In a Far Country," Jack London; "The Fiddler," Her ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...Show more
A Diary from Dixie - A Journal of the Confederacy, 1860-1865 by Mary Chesnut
Category: Biography | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Born into Southern aristocracy, Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-86) married a rising star of the political scene who ultimately served as an aide to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. As a prominent hostess and popular guest in the highest circles of Confederate society, Chesnut possessed an insider's per ...Show more
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
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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
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this ...Show more
Acrostic Poetry - The First-Ever Anthology by Michael Croland (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
In this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acrostics, the initial letters of successive lines spell out words when read vertically. Highlights include Lewis Carroll's acrostic about the namesake of his ...Show more
African Folk Tales by Hugh Vernon-Jackson (Editor); Yuko Green (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics Ser.
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative "Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas" to an ente ...Show more
American Notes by Charles Dickens
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Written in response to Charles Dickens' travels in the United States in 1842,American Notesis a fascinating and often highly critical portrait of the young American nation. Dickens touches on subjects as diverse as Wall Street, the American prison system, slavery, and the American press.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is, perhaps, the most famous story by an American writer Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, the admitted author of "horror stories". "A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, ...Show more
Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich K selitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both "The An ...Show more
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
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As You Like It William Shakespeare As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare based on the novel Rosalynde by Thomas Lodge, believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600. It features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted lines, "All the world's a stage," and has been adap ...Show more