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2) The sea wolf
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English
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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.
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Kipling's works volume 4
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English
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Contents : The solid muldoon--The god from the machine--With the main guard--Black Jack--Private Learoyd's story--The big drunk Draf'--Only a subaltern--In the matter of a private--The three muskateers--The taking of Lungtungpen--The daughter of the regiment--The madness of Private Ortheris--The Bisara of Pooree--A conference of the powers
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English
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Since its release in 1949, The Hero With a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world...
11) Julius Caesar
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English
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Brutus, best friend of the Roman ruler Caesar, reluctantly joins a successful plot to murder Caesar and subsequently destroys himself. 5.0 5-8
12) King Richard III
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English
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King Richard III by William Shakespeare
15) Othello
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English
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Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. This book contains information on the source from which Shakespeare derived "Othello"--selections from Giraldi Cinthio's "Hecatommithi". Special introduction by Alvin Kernan, Princeton University.
19) Minor works
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Pub. Date
1988
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English
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Gathers juvenilea, sketches, comic verses, and three prayers written by the eighteenth-century English author.
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(Friedrich August),Works volume 1
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
Description
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape...
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