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Poetics
PaperbackOriginal price $4.50 - Original price $4.50Original price $4.50$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic fl...
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /The great 19th-century philosopher refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in one of his most important works, a fascinating exami...
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Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable
PaperbackOriginal price $8.00 - Original price $8.00Original price $8.00$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /First published in 1855, Bulfinch's Mythology has introduced generations of readers to the great myths of Greece and Rome, as well as time-honore...
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The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
PaperbackOriginal price $7.00 - Original price $7.00Original price $7.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The first of these two highly influential documents refutes the concept of monarchy's divine right. The second argues for a broad acceptance of a...
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Rhetoric
PaperbackOriginal price $8.00 - Original price $8.00Original price $8.00$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /In this seminal work of Western philosophy, Aristotle focuses on the use of language in persuasive argument. He identifies practical and aestheti...
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Great Speeches of the 20th Century
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /A great speech can stir the soul — and move a nation. This compact and affordable anthology gathers complete speeches and selected excerpts from ...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for...
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The Story of My Life
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute...
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Great Speeches by Native Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Remarkable for their eloquence, depth of feeling, and oratorical mastery, these 82 compelling speeches encompass five centuries of Indian encount...
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Dark Night of the Soul
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The great Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross became a Carmelite monk in 1563 and helped St. Teresa of Avila to reform the Carmelite order — end...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons
PaperbackOriginal price $9.00 - Original price $9.00Original price $9.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /A sermon preached by Jonathan Edwards to his Enfield, Connecticut, congregation in July 1741, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is particula...
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Interior Castle
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /While I was beseeching Our Lord today...I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond or of very clear crystal, in...
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Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /As chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame d...
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John Barleycorn
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /As close to an autobiography as London ever wrote, this brutally frank memoir of a lifelong struggle with alcohol also offers insights into the a...
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The Philosophy of Epicurus
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Despite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, "Epicureanism" has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. Epicurus — who was born...
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The Gay Science
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Although dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry—known in twelfth-ce...
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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
PaperbackOriginal price $6.95 - Original price $6.95Original price $6.95$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 yea...
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
PaperbackOriginal price $7.00 - Original price $7.00Original price $7.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Slave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
PaperbackOriginal price $4.50 - Original price $4.50Original price $4.50$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederi...
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American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /"Whether your interest in Sioux folklore is great or small, you will find this a fascinating book to devour. Pick up a copy today and be thrilled...
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The Weary Blues
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety...
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Pr...
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /A towering figure in African-American history, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) created a substantial literary legacy beyond such seminal works as The ...
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