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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
An experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized cla ...Show more
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible hum ...Show more
Totem and Taboo by *Sigmund Freud
Category: Self-Help | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest works, when first published in 1913, this book caused outrage. It remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes - And Other Travel Writings by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest wri ...Show more
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Plays Ser.
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel. The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by re ...Show more
Tulips and Chimneys by E. E. Cummings
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Harvard University graduate, is best known for his rejection of traditional poetic forms. As e. e. cummings, he conducted radical experiments with spelling, syntax, and punctuation that inspired a revolution in twentieth-c ...Show more
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...'Nietzsche ...Show more
Two Classic Utopias by Francis Bacon; Tomasso Campanella; Gregory Claeys (Foreword by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In keeping with the inquisitive spirit of their times, two 17th-century writers envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of log ...Show more
Typee - A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In this classic of travel and adventure literature, Herman Melville drew upon his adventures in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a prisoner of the Typee people. Like the novel's narrator, Melville jumped ship from a whaling vessel and was held in benign captivity by an indigenous tribe with a repu ...Show more
Under Green Leaves by Richard Henry Stoddard
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This treasury of verse rejoices in the pleasures of the countryside and the beauty of the outdoors. Originally published in the mid-19th century, Under Green Leaves offers a wealth of poetry inspired by nature, from lyrics by English dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and F ...Show more
VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by JAMES WILLIAM
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Varieties of Religious Experience is William James's classic survey of religious belief. With psychological insight and philosophical rigor, James wrote a truly foundational text for modern belief. Matthew Bradley's wide-ranging new edition--the most critically up-to-date and inclusive edition of Ja ...Show more
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Biography | Series: Dover Thrift S.
One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and other ...Show more