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1) The Prince
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The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with...
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2005.
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"Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by the keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Doctor Moreau - a...
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1988.
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Austin's famous poetic study of the lands between Death Valley and the High Sierras features fourteen sketches describing plants, animals, mountains, birds, skies, Indians, prospectors, towns, and other aspects, portraying the desert as a place of rare, austere beauty that weaves a lasting spell over its inhabitants
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2011
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This classic collection of linked stories feature some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentlemans gentleman-in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Berties friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession
6) Cane
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2019.
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"The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons. Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through...
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