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By: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9780812968255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The emperor Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus was the only Roman emperor besides Caesar whose writings became a Western classic. His "Meditations" is a loosely-organized set of thoughts relating to his stoic philosophy, now in an acclaimed new translation.
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By: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780375757808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A blow to the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D., where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.
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By: Mikhail Lermontov
ISBN: 9780812970760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9780375757891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Defoe's account of plague, fire and city life in 17th century London. This book includes an introduction by Jason Goodwin. It contains commentary, notes and a reading group guide.
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By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
ISBN: 9780812968514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A Virginia gentleman finds himself transported from Civil-War-era America to Mars, where he plots, along with the lovely Princess of Theluim, to escape from his savage green captors.
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By: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9780812968545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister socialist groups gathering power in both Britain and America.
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By: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780812970036
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A follow-up to "The Innocents Abroad", this book records a walking trip, focused on central Europe and the Alps, but characterized by Twain's signature humour and preception. This Modern Library version contains an introduction by Dave Eggers, explanatory notes, text set, and an afterword.
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By: Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN: 9780375757228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Includes an introduction by Katha Pollitt, commentary, notes, and reading group guide.
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By: Anne Bronte
ISBN: 9780812967135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 8th April 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 9780375760143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Wanting nothing but the best for his beloved daughter, Nina, Kasper Almayer strives for fortune while inadvertently causing his own collapse with greed.
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By: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780812968569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th December 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Verne's 1872 adventure classic follows Englishman Phineas Fogg, the mysterious gentleman who wagers his fortune to undertake an extraordinary enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Set from Towle's 1873 translation, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes a commentary section, and a Reading Group Guide.
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By: Sinclair Lewis
ISBN: 9780375759253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 8th January 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Gordon Marino
ISBN: 9780375759895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A collection of existentialist writings includes pieces by such figures as de Beauvoir, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche and represents the movement's key strains and developments, covering such topics as theology, race studies, and women's studies. Original. 10,000 first printing.
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By: Immanuel Kant
ISBN: 9780375757334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Featuring the author's moral and political writings, this volume is edited by renowned scholar Karl Friedrich. It also includes an introduction, commentary, notes, and reading group guide.
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By: Voltaire
ISBN: 9780812972016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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According to many scholars, Voltaire (pen name for Francois Marie Arouet) was the embodiment of the Enlightenment. Born in Paris is 1694, he was well educated by the Jesuits, studying law prior to turning to writing as a profession. His lampoons and satires won him fame and infamy; and he was imprisoned and exiled at various times for his writing.
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By: Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9780375761348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: William W. Brown
ISBN: 9780679783237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The first novel ever published by an African American, this incendiary, passionate tale is about Thomas Jefferson's secret mulatto daughter and her sale into slavery. "Clotel" is a jarring look at the history of race in America and an important historical document in its own right.
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By: Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9780375760112
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Contains an introduction by Gordon S Wood.
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By: John Keats
ISBN: 9780375756696
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Collects the poetry and correspondence of the English poet.
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By: Honor de Balzac
ISBN: 9780375759079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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During the 1840s, a bourgeois Parisian family is brought to ruin by the machinations of an embittered spinster.
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By: Henry James
ISBN: 9780375759666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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With an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick, this book is one of Henry James' concise meditations on Americans in Europe. It also has an endnotes.
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By: Henry Adams
ISBN: 9780375760587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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While fighting each other for power, Senate member Silas Ratcliffe actively pursues society widow and government newcomer Mrs. Lightfoot Lee in 1870s Washington, D.C.
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By: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780375757280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Gordon Marino
ISBN: 9780812977783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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