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Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWe have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out onto the battlements and climbed down to where the cliffs dropped sharply to the sea... -
![The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 by T.S. Eliot]()
The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis omnibus collection includes all of the author’s early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party...Categorized as:
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The Complete Poems by William Blake
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsOne of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary...Categorized as:
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![Faithful Daughter of Israel by Wanda Ann Thomas]()
Faithful Daughter of Israel by Wanda Ann Thomas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe homeless outcast known as Cursed ANNA has spent her days avoiding the reproachful glances of her fellow Jerusalemites and her nights defending against the bitter cold and her growing hunger and fear. Her deepest desire is to find acceptance among her people. For that to happen she must live one more day, and one more day after that... -
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![Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by Sophus Helle]()
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by Sophus Helle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace “Sophus Helle’s new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read.”—Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe “Looks to be the last word on this Babylonian masterpiece...Categorized as:
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Tamas by Bhisham Sahni
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClassic novel on partition, based on riots in 1947.The book is about the exodus of a Sikh and Hindu family to India, in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan, at the time of Partition of India in 1947. It shows a gruesome side of politics, and the compassionate side of humanity that survives any carnage...Categorized as:
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![Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk]()
Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the world of faith to the world of show business, the theater of war to the theater of presidential politics, a novel traces one Jewish family's dramatic, often hilarious adventures on the way to the American dream. Reprint. NYT... -
![Parables and Paradoxes by Franz Kafka]()
Parables and Paradoxes by Franz Kafka
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn assessment of the works of Franz Kafka aimed at a definiton of the basic components of his...Categorized as:
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![A Tear and a Smile by Kahlil Gibran]()
A Tear and a Smile by Kahlil Gibran
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsContains 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran's wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings, it is the most important edition to the canon of this great writer...Categorized as:
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The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe sensational international bestseller: an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told beforeCorinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous...Categorized as:
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Anandamath: Dawn Over India by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt was hot at Padachina even for a summer day. In this village were many houses, but not a soul could be seen anywhere. The bazaar was full of shops and the lanes were lined with houses built either of brick or of mud. Every house was quiet. The shops were closed, and no one knew where the shopkeepers had gone. Even the street beggars were absent. The weavers wove no more... -
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Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet show why Milton takes his place beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Vergil. They ring with the unmistakable clarity of genius, with majesty of language, splendor and wealth of detail, and with the deep conviction of a powerful mind...Categorized as:
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![The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1A: The Middle Ages by M.H. Abrams, Alfred David]()
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1A: The Middle Ages by M.H. Abrams, Alfred David
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWith adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format...Categorized as:
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Job by Joseph Roth
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMendel Singer, a modern day Job, goes through his trials in the ghettoes of Tsarist Russia, and on the unforgiving streets of New York. He loses his family, falls terribly ill, and is badly abused. He needs a miracle...Categorized as:
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![The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess]()
The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeginning with the crucifixion of Jesus and ending, seventy years later, with the destruction of Pompeii, the eminent novelist and critic limns a recreation of the beginnings of... -
![Jews Without Money by Michael Gold]()
Jews Without Money by Michael Gold
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the author's only novel--is a passionate record of the times...Categorized as:
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![Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer]()
Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsContexts connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for Criticism six essays that address the poems central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T... -
![The Gardens of Light by Amin Maalouf]()
The Gardens of Light by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is the story of Mani, a forgotten figure, but whose name is yet, paradoxically, on everyone's lips.When using the words "Manichean" or "Manichaeism" one rarely thinks Mani, painter, doctor and Eastern philosopher of the third century, called "the Buddha of Light" by the Chinese and "the apostle of Jesus" by the Egyptians...Categorized as:
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Coplas De Jorge Manrique by Jorge Manrique
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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![The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination by Harold Frederic, Stanton Garner]()
The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination by Harold Frederic, Stanton Garner
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature. The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic... -
![Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato]()
Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGiving voice to the hardworking Italian immigrants who worked, lived, and died in New York City shortly before the Great Depression, this American classic ranks with Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath a s one of the 20th century’s great works of social protest...Categorized as:
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![The Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers]()
The Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the Federal Government of the United States. It provides the framework for the organization of the United States Government... -
![United States Bill of Rights by James Madison]()
United States Bill of Rights by James Madison
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution...Categorized as:
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![Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels by Kenneth E. Bailey]()
Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels by Kenneth E. Bailey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables... -
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![The Complete Works of Plato by Plato, Mohamed Elwany]()
The Complete Works of Plato by Plato, Mohamed Elwany
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis edition contains the complete works of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) of the University of Oxford. Also included are lengthy and insightful introductions by Jowett. The works presented here are generally agreed by most scholars to be attributed to Plato.This book has been meticulously converted to the Kindle format for great readability and easy navigation...Categorized as:
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![The Works of Epictetus, Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments by Epictetus]()
The Works of Epictetus, Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments by Epictetus
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...Categorized as:
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![The African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop]()
The African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNow in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization...Categorized as:
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![Plato: Complete Works by Plato]()
Plato: Complete Works by Plato
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOutstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity...Categorized as:
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![How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson]()
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time... -
![The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation by Adele Berlin]()
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation by Adele Berlin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today...Categorized as:
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