Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades by Usamah ibn Munqidh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and most complete eyewitness account of the Crusades from the perspective of a medieval Muslim writer. Focusing on twelfth-century Arab aristocrat Usama ibn Munq ...Show more
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and ...Show more
American Supernatural Tales by JOSHI T
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the oc ...Show more
The Fall of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
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Category: Classics
It is fatal to show pity in a time of war. Led by the mighty Titus, the Roman army besieges Jerusalem. Arrows rain over the city day and night, and battering rams assault its defensive walls. Inside, the people curse their fate, resistant to the last but maddened by hunger. After days of rebellion, al l ...Show more
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
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Category: Classics
"Samuel Johnson's Dictionary", published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. J ...Show more
Chronicles of the Crusades by Joinville and Villehardouin
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Category: Classics
Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Caroline Smith Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest of Consta ...Show more
History Of Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia The by Samuel Johnson
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Category: Classics
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a 'conclusion in ...Show more
Country Doctor A by Jewett Sarah Orne
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Category: Classics
A hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewettas story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie. In time she ...Show more
Three Men In A Boat & Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
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Category: Classics
The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers by Henry James
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Category: Classics
The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Meanwhile The Aspern Papers explor ...Show more