Category - Literary Collections
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Nature and Other Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $8.00 - Original price $8.00Original price $8.00$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /He was an ordained minister, renowned orator, and beloved author and poet whose ideas on nature, philosophy, and religion influenced authors such...
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods
PaperbackOriginal price $8.00 - Original price $8.00Original price $8.00$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817–62). In communing with the natural w...
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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
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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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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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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
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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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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy...
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The New Negro: An Interpretation
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
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American Slavery as It Is: Selections from the Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The stories of hundreds of African Americans who lived in bondage are preserved in this powerful 1839 chronicle. Compiled by a prominent abolitioni...
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