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Cat’s Cradle
With his trademark dry wit, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an inventive science fiction satire that preys on our deepest fears of witnessing...
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Human Happiness
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at...
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The Fastidious Assassins
A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus’ essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and...
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At the Same Time
The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature,...
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Electra and Other Plays
SSophocles’ innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral...
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Concerning Violence
Angered by the racism he witnessed on Martinique during the Second World War, Fanon here examines the roles of class, culture and violence, and...
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The Selected Poems of Cavafy
C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical...
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Selected Poems
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had...
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Giovanni’s Room
When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys...
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Critique of Pure Reason
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It brings together the two opposing schools of...
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Breaking the spell
What is religion and how did it evolve? Is it the product of blind evolutionary instinct or of rational choice? Is the only way to live a good life...
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Against the day
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in...
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The Pillow Book
A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese...
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On Liberty and the Subjection of Women
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most...
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The Bacchae and Other Plays
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated...
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Selected Poems
Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age....
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Salg!
Will They Ever Trust Us Again?
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A searing indictment of the US's policy to go to war with Iraq. Letters from serving men and women in Iraq and from their families tell it like it...
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Eichmann and the Holocaust
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate,...
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate,...
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On Suicide
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate,...
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The early stories 1953- 1975
Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's...
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