Dover Thrift Editions
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The Iliad
$12.00 Read moreProbably composed in the eighth century B.C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B.C., Homer’s Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds near
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0486408833
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$9.00 Add to cartThis excellent prose translation of Homer’s epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization’s most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406547
- Language: English
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The Way of Perfection
$12.00 Read moreThis classic of the interior life and Christian mysticism remains as fresh and inspiring today as it was 400 years ago. Written by a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun, it fo… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Avila, St Teresa of
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0486484513
- Language: English
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On the Social Contract
$6.00 Read more“Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. How did that transformation take place? I don’t k
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- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0486426920
- Language: English
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Poetics
$4.50 Add to cartAmong the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle’s Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 12 1997
- ISBN10: 048629577X
- Language: English
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Nicomachean Ethics
$11.00 Read moreHailed by Dante as “the master of those who know,” the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 1998
- ISBN10: 486400964
- Language: English
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Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, the Republic
$7.00 Add to cartPlato’s brilliant dialogues, written in the fourth century B.C., rank among Western civilization’s most important philosophical works. Presented as a series of probing conversations between Socrates a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0486454657
- Language: English
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
$12.00 Add to cartMore than an autobiography, The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition. A great work of Western literature, it recalls crucial events an
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: St Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424669
- Language: English
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Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
$6.00 Read moreIn 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most controversial figures in the history of race relations, assembled his most trusted organizers to impa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842797
- Language: English
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Meditations
$6.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and
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- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 11 1997
- ISBN10: 048629823X
- Language: English
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The Republic
$8.00 Add to cartOften ranked as the greatest of Plato’s many remarkable writings, this celebrated philosophical work of the fourth century B.C. contemplates the elements of an ideal state, serving as the forerunner f
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411214
- Language: English
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Miss Julie
$7.00 Add to cartIn Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fianc to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father’s valet during the course of a … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Strindberg, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 18 1992
- ISBN10: 0486272818
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
$5.00 Add to cartIn 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0486456765
- Language: English
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Macbeth
$5.00 Add to cartOne of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt, and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious
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- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 23 1993
- ISBN10: 0486278026
- Language: English
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Bulfinch’s Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable
$8.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1855, Bulfinch’s Mythology has introduced generations of readers to the great myths of Greece and Rome, as well as time-honored legends of Norse mythology, medieval, and chivalric t… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Bulfinch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411079
- Language: English
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Civil War Stories
$5.00 Read moreNewspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed “Bitter Bierce” for his vitriolic
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280381
- Language: English
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The Last Man
$12.00 Read moreFrom the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley’s 1826 roman clef takes place in the late 21st century, as England’s last king abdicates and… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0486836118
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$9.00 Read moreAt convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that “This life of hers was as cold as an attic tha… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0486292576
- Language: English
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The Marrow of Tradition
$8.00 Add to cartIn this landmark tale, one of the great American novelists exposed the harsh dimensions of Southern prejudice during post-Reconstruction era. Charles W. Chesnutt traces the intertwined lives of two pr… [more below]
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- Author: Chesnutt, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486838374
- Language: English
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Around the World in Eighty Days
$7.00 Read moreTaking up a challenge from his whist partners, a mysterious English gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune and abandons his quiet domestic routine to undertake a daring feat: to circle t
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- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411117
- Language: English
