Dover Thrift Editions
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My Inventions and Other Writing and Lectures
$15.00 Read moreThis volume presents one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of writings by Nikola Tesla, a founding figure of the modern electrical power industry and long-time rival of Thomas Edison. … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486845753
- Language: English
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Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad
$9.00 Read more“Loved this and I’m not a big history buff. This was an eye-opener. This will make you have an even deeper respect for those who went through slavery and all they endured.” — Pollard House
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- Author: Rudisel, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0486780619
- Language: English
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The Necklace and Other Short Stories
$6.00 Read moreThe French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre.
The nine stories in this colle… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0486270645
- Language: English
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McTeague
$7.00 Read moreAlthough otherwise ignorant and ineffectual, McTeague has managed to eke out a meager career as an unlicensed dentist. His dreary existence rapidly improves upon meeting and marrying Trina, whose poss… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Norris, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0486831760
- Language: English
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
$7.00 Read moreAuthor, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive c… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0486498824
- Language: English
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Little Women
$11.00 Read moreThis American classic is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when it was first written in the mid-nineteenth century. Largely based on the author’s own childhood, Little Women is a timeless tale o… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0486828069
- Language: English
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Great Speeches
$5.00 Add to cartFor someone who claimed he had been educated by littles — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable el… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268721
- Language: English
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Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers
$8.00 Read more“First time I’ve read a collection from Native American Writers. Won’t be my last. Important collection that examines the contrast and sometimes conflict between Whites and Native Americans and also c
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0486490955
- Language: English
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The Story of Philosophy
$18.00 Read morePulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrat… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0486848558
- Language: English
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons
$9.00 Read moreA sermon preached by Jonathan Edwards to his Enfield, Connecticut, congregation in July 1741, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is particularly noted for its vivid descriptions of the torments of… [more below]
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- Author: Edwards, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0486446018
- Language: English
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Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams
$5.00 Read more“America’s first power couple,” John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 letters — from their 1762 courtship to the end of John… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Adams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486841707
- Language: English
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
$12.00 Add to cartA tremendously influential philosophical work of the late nineteenth century, Thus Spake Zarathustra is also a literary masterpiece by one of the most important thinkers of modern times. In it, the an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0486406636
- Language: English
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The Tale of Genji
$8.00 Add to cartCompleted in the early 11th century, The Tale of Genji is considered the supreme masterpiece of Japanese prose literature, and one of the world’s earliest novels. A work of great length, it comprises … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Murasaki, Lady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414159
- Language: English
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
$10.00 Read moreBetween the first proposals of a federal Constitution in 1787 and the document’s 1789 ratification, an intense debate raged among the nation’s founding fathers. The Federalist Papers — authored by Ja… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Henry, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0486843459
- Language: English
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Great Short Stories by American Women
$8.00 Read moreEmbracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stor… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Ward, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0486287769
- Language: English
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American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends
$10.00 Add to cartWhether your interest in Sioux folklore is great or small, you will find this a fascinating book to devour. Pick up a copy today and be thrilled. — The Reading Room
This accessible and affordable volu… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0486780430
- Language: English
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
$12.00 Read moreRegarded by many as the most luminous example of Mark Twain’s work, this fictional biography of Joan of Arc was purportedly written by Joan’s page and secretary — Sieur Louis de Cont?. (Twain’s alter
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424596
- Language: English
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On Liberty
$6.00 Add to cartDiscussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty. John Stuart Mill’s complete and resolute dedication to t
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Mill, John Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0486421309
- Language: English
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Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
$6.00 Read moreThroughout his richly varied literary career, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote compelling short stories of enduring appeal. His first important publication, long before The Scarlet Letter, was t… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0486270602
- Language: English
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
$12.00 Add to cartRegarded by many as the most luminous example of Mark Twain’s work, this fictional biography of Joan of Arc was purportedly written by Joan’s page and secretary — Sieur Louis de Conté. (Twain’s alte
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424596
- Language: English
