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Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Henry David Thoreau - Häftad

Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Henry David Thoreau - Häftad

Henry David Thoreau's Walden details his experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. \Civil Disobedience\ is a highly influential argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Both Walden and \Civil Disobedience\ are timeless classics of American literature. This Warbler Classics edition includes an introduction by Charles R. Anderson and..

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The Real Charlotte (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Somerville and Ross - Häftad

The Real Charlotte (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Somerville and Ross - Häftad

When Charlotte Mullen, a fortyish flinty Irish spinster, takes in her orphaned cousin, the beautiful nineteen-year-old Francie Fitzgerald who had been living in Dublin with poor relatives, life in a small Irish village is dramatically upended. As Charlotte plots to marry Francie to a local squire's son, events build to a shocking crescendo with dire effects.Original published in three volumes, this Warbler Classics edition is based on the combined 1895 publication and includes an afterword by Malcolm..

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Dracula (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Bram Stoker - Häftad

Dracula (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Bram Stoker - Häftad

One of the most famous pieces of English literature of all time, Dracula is a towering work of Gothic fiction whose archetypal characters-Count Dracula and Abraham Van Helsing-have permeated popular culture since their first appearance in 1897. Drawing on Transylvanian folklore, Bram Stoker weaves his tale of horror through newspaper articles and the letters, diary entries, journals, telegrams, and ship's logs of a small cast of characters whose perilous encounters with Dracula have harrowing if..

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Orlando (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Virginia Woolf - Häftad

Orlando (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Virginia Woolf - Häftad

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando is her most entertaining and exciting book. The mock biography recounts the life of a sixteenth-century nobleman who ends up as a woman writer in 1920s England. Over the centuries Orlando lives through the gamut of human experience as both a man and a woman. It is an irreverent send-up of dutifully rendered biographies of great men, a tongue-in-cheek commentary on some formal innovations in Woolf's novels, and a carefully masked portrait of Vita Sackville-West,..

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The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics) - Bok av E. E. Cummings - Häftad

The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics) - Bok av E. E. Cummings - Häftad

The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under suspicion of espionage-a circumstance he could have easily avoided had he professed a hatred of Germans. Instead, when questioned, Cummings answered French authorities in a way that insured that he would accompany his friend \B.\ (William Slater Brown), who was indeed guilty of writing letters critical of the French government. The psychologically tense narrative-shocking..

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The Teeth of the Tiger (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Maurice Leblanc - Häftad

The Teeth of the Tiger (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Maurice Leblanc - Häftad

In one of Maurice Leblanc's most ornately constructed and beguiling tales, master of disguise and gentleman-burglar Arsène Lupin transforms both himself and (among those in the know) his reputation as a charming but incorrigible rake. When the heirs to a large fortune keep turning up dead under suspicious circumstances, Lupin is obliged by duty to pursue a baffling array of clues. Can he escape conviction for murder and exonerate the innocent people that only he can save from false punishment and..

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The Land of Little Rain (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Mary Austin - Häftad

The Land of Little Rain (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Mary Austin - Häftad

Mary Austin's love of the desert is everywhere evident in The Land of Little Rain, a collection of fourteen vignettes about the land and people of the region that today includes Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve. Part nature essay, personal essay, folk legend, and local history of the California Sierras, this enduring American classic resists classification. Her lyrical observations are infused with a deep understanding of the flora and fauna of the area and an appreciation..

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The Magnificent Ambersons (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Booth Tarkington - Häftad

The Magnificent Ambersons (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Booth Tarkington - Häftad

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons, chronicles the grandeur and downfall of a once-great family. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming Midwest, Tarkington weaves a mesmerizing tale of pride, passion, and the decline of American aristocracy in the face of industrialization and social upheaval. George Amberson Minafer, the only child of Major Amberson and his wife Isabel, grows up in a lavish mansion, indulged by..

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Edwin Lefevre - Häftad

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Edwin Lefevre - Häftad

Edwin Lefèvre's Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a fictionalized autobiography based on the life of Jesse Livermore (1877-1940) who was a pioneer of day trading and one of the greatest investors of all time. At his peak in 1929, Livermore was worth $100 million, which in today's dollars roughly equates to $1.5 billion, making him one of the richest people in the world at that time. The book, which began as a series of articles published during 1922 and 1923 in The Saturday Evening Post, tells..

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Clouds of Witness (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Dorothy L. Sayers - Häftad

Clouds of Witness (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Dorothy L. Sayers - Häftad

The arrest of his brother, Gerald the Duke of Denver, for murder plunges Lord Peter Wimsey into a treacherous world where nothing is as it seems. Every new clue only compounds the mystery. When Captain Denis Cathcart, fiancé to Lord Peter Wimsey's sister, Lady Mary, is discovered dead outside the family's shooting lodge in Yorkshire, Wimsey must unravel a complex web of lies, deceit, and seemingly random events to find the killer, even as the Duke refuses to cooperate and Lady Mary seems to be hiding..

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The Sun Also Rises (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Ernest Hemingway - Häftad

The Sun Also Rises (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Ernest Hemingway - Häftad

When first published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of expats in post-World War I Europe whose relationships unravel as they travel from Paris to the bullfights in Spain. Unsettling, provocative, and inspiring to this day, this legendary novel about loyalty, love, and betrayal challenges readers to discover what it takes to be true to oneself. This authoritative edition includes a new foreword that explores how to read Hemingway..

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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Jules Verne - Häftad

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Warbler Classics) - Bok av Jules Verne - Häftad

The adventure begins when eccentric German Professor Otto Lindenbrock and his nephew Axel decipher a coded note written in runic script by a sixteenth-century Icelandic alchemist. The message sends Lindenbrock and Axel on a journey to Snæfellsjökull, Iceland, in search of an extinct volcano and a secret crater that they believe leads to the center of the earth. With with their guide, Hans Bjelke, they make a daring dive into the crater. The three travelers encounter all kinds of dangers and strange..

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Warbler Classics) - Bok av James Weldon Johnson - Häftad

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Warbler Classics) - Bok av James Weldon Johnson - Häftad

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Adams, James Weldon Johnson relates the emotionally gripping tale of a mixed-race piano prodigy who can pass for white in turn-of-the-century America. Forced into impossible choices created by an unjust society, the narrator describes his experiences as he travels from Jacksonville to New York City, the rural South to Paris, London, and beyond. The earliest..

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The Garden Party and Other Stories (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Katherine Mansfield - Häftad

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Katherine Mansfield - Häftad

Published in 1922, The Garden Party and Other Stories is Katherine Mansfield's third and most acclaimed collection of short stories. In addition to the title piece, it includes fourteen other masterful stories, including \At the Bay\ and \The Daughters of the Late Colonel.\ Set in post-World War I Europe and New Zealand, Mansfield captures the psychology and inner lives of her characters through free indirect discourse and sudden moments of realization and insight. Many of The Garden Party stories..

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A Journal of the Plague Year (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Daniel Defoe - Häftad

A Journal of the Plague Year (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Daniel Defoe - Häftad

When the plague swept through London in 1665 and killed twenty percent of its population who ended up in hastily dug mass graves, five-year old Daniel Defoe survived because his family left the city. In 1722 the author of Robinson Crusoe and other classic books published this path-breaking account of the human responses to a horrendous pandemic with no visible cause, based on an uncle's journals. Combining unusual curiosity and actual historical data with deep compassion, Defoe chronicles his fellow-citizen's..

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Letters of a Javanese Princess (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Raden Adjeng Kartini - Häftad

Letters of a Javanese Princess (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Raden Adjeng Kartini - Häftad

This collection of letters was written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. After being granted the rare opportunity to attend a Dutch elementary school, at the age of twelve she went into seclusion in accordance with Indonesian customs for women of nobility prior to marriage. Her letters to Dutch correspondents offer a captivating glimpse into the life and spirit of a woman who challenged the customs of her time and forcefully promoted..

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The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Leo Tolstoy - Häftad

The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Bok av Leo Tolstoy - Häftad

The Kingdom of God Is Within You, an influential Christian anarchist philosophical work, faced an initial ban in Russia and found publication in Germany in 1894. This culmination of Tolstoy's three decades of contemplation presents a unique societal structure based on a Christian interpretation centered on universal love. Inspired by Luke 17:21, the book explores nonviolent resistance, pivotal for Tolstoyan followers of nonviolence and Christian anarchism. Tolstoy discusses the principle of nonviolent..

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