Dover Thrift Editions
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
$5.00 Read moreAt Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face… [more below]
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- Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0486282147
- Language: English
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The King of Elfland’s Daughter
$10.00 Add to cart“A fantasy novel in a class with the Tolkien books.”–L. Sprague de Camp
“It could be the very best fairy story ever written.”–Gahan Wilson
“No amount of mere description can convey more than a fra… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Dunsany, Lord
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0486835456
- Language: English
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White Nights and Other Stories
$12.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Crime and Punishment comes this remarkable collection of short fiction. A selection of ten compelling tales, steeped in Dostoyevsky’s characteristic themes of spiritual torment and … [more below]
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- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0486469484
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
$5.00 Add to cartSince his death in 1924, Kafka has come to be regarded as one of the greatest modern writers, one whose work brilliantly explores the anxiety, futility, and complexity of modern life. The precision an
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- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0486290301
- Language: English
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes & the Return of Sherlock Holmes
$10.00 Read moreBoasting 24 of Sherlock Holmes’s finest adventures, this edition combines two classic collections first published in 1894 and 1905. Highlights include “The Final Problem,” where arch-criminal Moriarty… [more below]
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- Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0486845605
- Language: English
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Everyman
$5.00 Read moreWestern drama, having all but disappeared during the Dark Ages, reemerged spontaneously in the liturgy and life of the medieval church. Vernacular miracle plays of England’s Middle Ages were performed… [more below]
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- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 24 1995
- ISBN10: 0486287262
- Language: English
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Utopia
$5.00 Read moreFirst published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the su
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- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0486295834
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$8.00 Read more“The most impressive satirist of his day.” — Time Magazine
With devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term “conspicuous consumption” (coined by Veblen
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- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280624
- Language: English
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Bhagavadgita
$6.00 Read morePart of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, the Bhagavadgita probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him. Translation by Sir Edwin Arnold. Explanatory footnotes.
A… [more below]
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- Author: Arnold, Sir Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 12 1993
- ISBN10: 0486277828
- Language: English
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King Lear
$6.00 Add to cartFirst performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic
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- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 16 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280586
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Dictionary
$9.00 Add to cartBorn in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country’s most celebrated and cynical wits — a merciless “American Swift” whose literary barb… [more below]
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- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 20 1993
- ISBN10: 0486275426
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Epicurus
$12.00 Read moreDespite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, “Epicureanism” has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. Epicurus — who was born at Samos, Greece, in 341 BC and died at Athens in 270… [more below]
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- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0486833038
- Language: English
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The Ethics
$11.00 Add to cartWhat does it mean to live an ethical life? For seventeenth-century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, this question led to a doctrine in which God is present in all things and the human mind is part of … [more below]
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- Author: Spinoza, Benedict De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0486827658
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
$9.00 Read moreIn an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.
Having witnessed firsthand… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0486290360
- Language: English
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Complete Sonnets
$4.50 Read moreWithout a doubt the most important of Shakespeare’s nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity of “the dark lady” and the “lovely boy” to whom the
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0486266869
- Language: English
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Capital: Volume One: A Critique of Political Economy
$14.00 Add to cartCapital: Volume One by Karl Marx is a classic of political economics and was described by Friedrich Engels, the author’s friend and collaborator, as “the bible of the working class.” Thirty years in t… [more below]
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- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: July 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0486832392
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$4.50 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie
A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. — Saturday Review Born a f- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0486789624
- Language: English
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The Metaphysics
$14.00 Read more“All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge,” declared Aristotle. The philosopher’s works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or “first philos… [more below]
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- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0486817490
- Language: English
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The Will to Power
$12.00 Read moreThroughout his career, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche explored the concept of the will to power, interpreting it variously as a psychological, biological, and metaphysical principle. This posthumously pr… [more below]
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- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0486831663
- Language: English
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An Enemy of the People
$5.00 Add to cartWidely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) brought the social problems and ideas of his day to center stage. Creating re
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0486406571
- Language: English
