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  • Of Human Bondage

    by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy ...
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there."Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Sons and Lovers

    by D. H. Lawrence, Dennis Jackson ...
    D. H. Lawrence’s great autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women. Set in the Nottinghamshire coalfields of Lawrence’s own boyhood, the story follows young Paul Morel’s growth into manhood in a British working-class family.Gertrude Morel, Paul’s puritanical mother, concentrates all her love and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Supergrow

    Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

    Edited by Benjamin DeMott ...
    Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar, the New York Times, Antioch Review, Esquire, and the Saturday Review. Author Benjamin DeMott discusses everything under the sun--music, improving one's sex life, violence in Mississippi, theater, student revolts--but a single theme unifies the material: people ought to use ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • You Don't Say

    Modern American Inhibitions

    by Benjamin DeMott ...
    Series series Classics in Communication and Mass Culture Series
    In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin DeMott argues that the very least a society should do is to try to understand the meaning of its own ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Women in Love

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    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    'Women in Love' is a sequel to 'The Rainbow.' Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters living in the Midlands of England in the 1910s. Ursula is a teacher, Gudrun an artist. They meet two men who live nearby, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich. The four become friends. Ursula and Birkin become involved and Gudrun eventually begins a love affair with Gerald. All four are deeply concerned with ... Read more

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  • Northanger Abbey

    Illustrated and Annotated

    by Jane Austen ...
    Dive into Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey like never before with this beautifully annotated and illustrated edition, designed to enhance your reading experience. The annotations offer valuable insights into the Regency-era society, explaining historical details, social customs, and the witty satire that Austen uses to parody the popular Gothic novels of her time. You'll gain a deeper understanding ... Read more

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  • The Mayor of Casterbridge

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
    A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. So begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy's gripping tale of a man's rise and fall amid the natural beauty and human brutality of a rural English community.First published serially in 1886, the novel was praised by critics for its realism and poetic style. Most agreed, ... Read more

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  • Utopia

    The Visionary Classic of Ideal Society, Political Philosophy, and Social Justice

    by Thomas More ...
    What if the perfect society existed—and what would it look like? Utopia is not just a place. It's a powerful idea that has challenged minds for over 500 years. First published in 1516, Sir Thomas More's Utopia presents a fictional dialogue about an ideal island society governed by reason, equality, and harmony. Through the eyes of a fictional traveler, Raphael Hythloday, More critiques the ... Read more

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  • Metamorphosis: A Quick Read edition

    by Quick Read, Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by David Wyllie ...
    Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 1 minute"Metamorphosis" is a novella written by Franz Kafka and published in 1915. It tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself ... Read more

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  • Japanese Fairy Tales (Best Navigation, Active TOC)(Feathers Classics)

    by Yei Theodora Ozaki ...
    This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. A seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature, it includes several essays on race, some of which had been published earlier in The Atlantic Monthly. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in 19-20th century American society. ... Read more

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