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Everyman's library volume 92
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
[1992
Language
English
Author
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Everyman's library volume 145
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Collects Kafka's short stories and parables, each reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose
84) Ficciones
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 166
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Stories deal with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing.
85) Love poems
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul. Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, E E. Cummings,...
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English
Description
Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom ... and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that fill this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of...
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Series
Publisher
J.M. Dent
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Often considered the foundation of political liberalism, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was first published anonymously in 1689, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution. In The First Treatise of Government, Locke refutes the idea of divine monarchy, while The Second Treatise of Government articulates Locke's philosophy of government, which he based upon his theories of natural rights and the social contract. In Locke's view, governments'...
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Everyman's library volume 107
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature - the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each...
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The Man Who Loved Children is a brutally honest examination of domestic life and family. Sam and Henny Pollit have too much-too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and a chilling domestic power, Sam torments his children, bending and manipulating their seemingly limitless love to his overbearing advantage, while Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at its...
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