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Earliest Publication Date

1900

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Considered one of the world's greatest novels, this controversial classic offers modern readers a vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. Includes a new Introduction. Reissue.

2) Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940

Author

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

Earliest Publication Date

1941

3) Gulliver's travels

Author

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

Earliest Publication Date

1900

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Gulliver's Travels tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman and ship's surgeon, who travels to the "several remote nations of the world." In the beginning, he becomes shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the distressed inhabitants are only six inches tall. His second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag, where lives a race of giants. At Glubdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers, he speaks with great men of the past and learns from...

4) Les misérables

Author

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885

Earliest Publication Date

1862

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"Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life. His righteous actions change people's lives in surprising ways and culminate in romance between two young people. Now available...

5) Music of the mind: 1000 years of European poetry : an anthology

Earliest Publication Date

1963

6) Mythology

Author

Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963

Earliest Publication Date

1942

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A collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in section on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths. Includes a brief section on Norse mythology.

7) The brothers Karamazov

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Earliest Publication Date

1950

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A monumental new translation--the first in more than twenty years--of Russia's greatest family drama, rendered with all the passion, humor, and soul of the original. Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons--the eponymous brothers Karamazov--and...

8) The love books of Ovid: being the Amores, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris and Medicamina faciei femineæ of Publius Ovidius Naso

Author

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D

Earliest Publication Date

1932

9) The personal memoirs of U.S. Grant

Author

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Earliest Publication Date

1885

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In his own words, Ulysses Grant leads us from his early years to that day of decision in 1865.