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New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Regarded as one of the most
colorful autobiographies ever written, the chronicle of Renaissance
artist Benvenuto Cellini's life is an epic tale of exaggerated
proportions. Cellini's loves, hatreds, passions, delights, brawls
and battles, along with extraordinary events, and even supernatural
phenomena, are narrated in an energetic, direct, and often racy
style. Completed in 1563, Cellini's autobiography is also
historically important for its firsthand account of daily life in
Renaissance Italy. This 1887 translation, by noted Renaissance
scholar John Addington Symonds, has been the most popular English
language version for over a century.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. In addition to "Love," this edition
also includes Chekhov's short stories "Lights," "A Story Without an
End," "Mari D'elle," "A Living Chattel," "The Doctor," "Too Early
," "The Cossack," "Aborigines," "An Inquiry," "Martyrs," "The Lion
and the Sun," "A Daughter of Albion," "Choristers," "Nerves," "A
Work of Art," "A Joke," "A Country Cottage," "A Blunder," "Fat and
Thin," "The Death of a Government Clerk," "A Pink Stocking," and
"At a Summer Villa."
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The Antichrist (Paperback)
H.L. Mencken; Edited by Mark Diederichsen; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
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New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is
the story about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River,
and the fun, clever, and occasionally harrowing situations he
encounters with his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name
Mark Twain, is one of American's favorite authors and humorists.
His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from
critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists,
industrialists, and European royalty. William Faulkner called Twain
"the father of American literature."
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. The second, and most popular, book
of the "Leatherstocking Tales" pentalogy, by James Fenimore Cooper,
"The Last of the Mohicans" is a historical story set in 1757,
during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when
France and Great Britain battled for control of North America.
Written in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argues that
women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be
because they lacked education during that era. Wollstonecraft
suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational
beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. New 6x9 inch
paperback edition. With the emergence of the feminist movement at
the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of
women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became
increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of
the founding feminist philosophers.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Nine essays on literature by Arthur
Schopenhauer.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "The Virginian" was the first
western genre novel introducing the cowboy as a romantic hero. Set
in Wyoming, Wister weaves a tale of action, violence, hate,
revenge, love and friendship that revolves around the Virginian's
confrontations with a rival gambler, chasing cattle thieves, and an
ongoing romance with the local schoolteacher from back east who is
not used to the wild west. Owen Wister is the "father" of western
fiction. Like his friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister became fascinated
with the culture, lore and terrain of the west after his first trip
to Wyoming in 1885. Wister was a lifelong friend of the famous
western artist Frederic Remington, and Mount Wister in Grand Teton
National Park is named after the author.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "Riders of the Purple Sage" tells
the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome her
persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon Church. A second
plot follows Venters and his escape to the wilderness with a girl
named Bess, whom he has accidentally shot. Venters falls in love
with the girl, and together they escape to the East, while
Lassiter, Fay, and Jane, pursued by both Mormons and rustlers,
escape into a paradise-like valley by toppling a giant balancing
rock, forever closing off the only way in or out. Zane Grey was an
American author best known for his popular adventure novels and
stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier.
Grey wrote over 100 books, mostly westerns, but also a few history
books and many sporting stories about baseball and his favorite
pastime, fishing. Grey's books became very popular during his
lifetime with countless movies being adapted from them.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition with restored text. Challenging the
prevailing morals of the Victorian era, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
is considered by many to be the first feminist novel. This is a
story of marital betrayal set within a moral framework tempered by
an optimistic belief in universal salvation. The main character,
Helen, is spirited and forthright, unafraid to speak with frankness
to the men in her life. Anne Bronte portrays this approvingly, in
contrast to the meekness of Milicent who is trampled and ignored by
her unrepentant husband. Helen leaves with her beloved son in tow,
arriving at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been
empty for many years. The second and final novel by Anne Bronte,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was first published in 1848 in three
volumes under the pseudonym Acton Bell. It achieved instant
success, however, after Anne's untimely death the next year, her
sister, Charlotte, prevented its re-publication. Six years later
the text was edited to fit one volume, and most editions since then
have the same omissions. Through careful comparison with the
original version, this Peruse Press edition restores the missing
sections.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. An early example of Joyce's
modernist, free indirect speech style of writing, "A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man" is a semi-autobiographical novel that
traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of
young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against
the Catholic and Irish conventions with which he has been raised.
He finally leaves for abroad to pursue his ambitions as an artist.
James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet considered
to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist
avant-garde of the early 20th century, and is well known for
writing in the stream of consciousness technique he perfected.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel
set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution,
and depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the
French aristocracy, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the
revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats, and many
unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same
time period. Charles Dickens was a 19th-century English writer and
social critic who created some of the world's most memorable
fictional characters. During his life, his works enjoyed
unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary
genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels
and short stories continue to be widely popular.
All new 6x9 inch paperback edition. "Sense and Sensibility"
(considered the first "modern" English novel) portrays the life and
loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in southwest
England between 1792 and 1797. The novel follows the young ladies
from their comfortable life on the Norland Park estate to their new
home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they
experience love, romance and heartbreak. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among
the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely
read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and
social commentary have gained her historical importance among
scholars and critics.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
is a collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first twelve short
stories featuring the world's most famous detective, which were
originally published as a series of single stories in The Strand
Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892, before being published as a
book in 1892. This edition includes cover and frontispiece
illustrations by Frederic Door Steele (no other illustrations). A
London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the
fantastic, Sherlock Holmes is famous for his astute logical
reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of
forensic science skills to solve difficult cases. Holmes's primary
intellectual detection method is abductive reasoning, and readers
enjoy analyzing just what Holmes is doing when he performs his
"deductions," which consist primarily of drawing inferences based
on straightforward practical principles and careful observation,
resulting in an analysis of physical evidence that is both
scientific and precise. Sherlock Holmes remains a great inspiration
for forensic science in literature, especially for the way his
acute study of a crime scene yields small clues as to the precise
sequence of events.
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What is Art? (Paperback)
Aylmer Maude; Edited by Mark Diederichsen; Leo Tolstoy
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R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
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Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
Constance Garnett; Edited by Mark Diederichsen; Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
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New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Raskolnikov, the protagonist of
Crime and Punishment, believes he can rationalize murder without
guilt and the story follows this journey from arrogance to
repentance and the burden he must carry symbolized by the cross
given to him by Sonya. The mental anguish and moral dilemmas
expressed in the dialogue, and Raskolnikov's dreams, are cleverly
utilized by Dostoyevsky to articulate the broader philosophical
debate sweeping through nineteenth-century Europe about nihilism,
utopian socialism, utilitarianism, and extreme rationalism.
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