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  • A History of New York (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A satirical chronicle of New Amsterdam: Dutch colonization, folklore, witty anecdotes, and mock-historical mischief

    par Washington Irving, Gabriel Saunders, Gabriel Saunders ...
    A History of New York, narrated by the fictive antiquary Diedrich Knickerbocker, is at once a mock-chronicle and an urban origin myth. Beginning with cosmogony and proceeding through the Dutch settlement to the fall of New Netherland, Irving parodies the pomp of classical historians with bogus citations, pedantic footnotes, comic etymologies, and mock-epic set pieces featuring governors like ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Nietzschean philosophy in American thought: will to power, eternal recurrence, and radical implications

    par H. L. Mencken, Julian Kendall, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Published in 1908, H. L. Mencken's The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is a brisk, polemical primer on Nietzsche's thought and its fin de siècle setting. Surveying The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morals, Mencken highlights will to power, the revaluation of values, master versus herd morality, and art's cultural rank. His epigrammatic ... En savoir plus

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  • Astoria (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An American frontier exploration: Oregon Trail journeys, Native American encounters, fur trading, and the pioneering spirit of Westward expansion

    par Washington Irving, Gabriel Saunders, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Astoria (A Western Classic) narrates John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company venture (1810–1813) to plant a trading post at the Columbia's mouth. In poised, documentary prose enlivened by picturesque set pieces, Irving interweaves the Tonquin's voyage, Wilson P. Hunt's perilous overland trek along the Snake, and the fort's eclipse amid the War of 1812 and British competition, fixing the early ... En savoir plus

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  • Past and Present (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. 19th-century commentary on the Industrial Revolution: social injustice, politics, moral reflection, and the Great Men theory in Europe

    par Thomas Carlyle, Brielle Kestridge, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Past and Present (1843) juxtaposes Jocelin of Brakelond's chronicle of Abbot Samson at St Edmundsbury with the factories and poorhouses of industrial Britain. This genre-bending history-sermon indicts laissez-faire 'Cash Nexus' and Benthamite enumeration, railing at idle aristocracy while urging morally answerable 'Captains of Industry.' In Biblical cadences and satiric apostrophes, Carlyle uses ... En savoir plus

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  • Vanity Fair (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A 19th-century satire of ambition and upper-class hypocrisy amid the Napoleonic Wars, charting female rivalry and Victorian social norms.

    par Makepeace Thackeray, Gabriel Saunders, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Vanity Fair, subtitled "A Novel without a Hero," surveys Regency society from London drawing rooms to Waterloo through the entwined careers of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Thackeray's panoramic yet needle-pointed prose blends realistic detail with theatrical framing—an intrusive, sardonic narrator, inset illustrations, and puppet‑show metaphors—to expose the economies of marriage, credit, and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Story of Malta (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Vivid travel exploration of Mediterranean history, Malta's cultural identity, and the island's geopolitical significance, richly researched.

    par Maturin M. Ballou, Gabriel Saunders, Gabriel Saunders ...
    The Story of Malta charts the island's long arc: from megalithic sanctuaries and Phoenician traders through Roman, Arab, and Norman dominion, to the Knights of St. John, the 1565 siege, and British rule, attending to Valletta's fortifications, harbors, and civic life. Ballou's lucid, pictorial prose fuses itinerary with archive, placing Malta within nineteenth-century popular history while ... En savoir plus

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  • Introduction to the Devout Life (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Catholic spiritual direction for the vocation of holiness: stages of growth, virtue practices, and overcoming temptations

    par Francis de Sales, Gabriel Saunders, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Introduction to the Devout Life (1609) offers a clear, pastoral roadmap for sanctity amid ordinary duties. Cast as counsel to 'Philothea'—the soul desiring God—it moves from foundational meditations and a decisive renunciation of sin to practical disciplines of prayer, confession, Communion, modesty, friendship, and vocational discernment. Its style is limpid, affectionate, and concretely ... En savoir plus

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  • Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Norwegian immigrants on the American frontier: pioneer trials, psychological depth, and a symbolic prairie journey

    par O. E. Rölvaag, Damon Carrowell, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie follows Norwegian homesteaders in the Dakota Territory of the 1870s, centering on buoyant Per Hansa and his tormented wife, Beret. In spare, incantatory prose that echoes saga and Scripture, Rölvaag blends granular realism with psychological insight: blizzards erase trails, grasshoppers devour hopes, and the prairie itself becomes character. Positioned ... En savoir plus

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  • The Alexiad (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Byzantine history and 12th-century politics told by a female historian—crusade narrative, court intrigue, and military affairs in a political memoir

    par Anna Komnene, Callum Farrowly, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Traduit par Elizabeth A. S. Dawes ...
    The Alexiad is a sweeping Byzantine history that narrates the reign of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118), charting Norman invasions, the Seljuk threat, the Pechenegs, and the seismic arrival of the First Crusade. Composed in classicizing Attic Greek and modeled on Thucydides and Procopius, it blends courtly eyewitness testimony with technical accounts of strategy, diplomacy, and finance. Anna ... En savoir plus

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  • The Impending Crisis of the South (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Persuasive Abolitionist Critique of Slavery's Economic, Social, and Political Costs in the Antebellum South

    par Hinton Rowan Helper, Keaton Dalesworth, Gabriel Saunders ...
    Published in 1857, The Impending Crisis of the South is a data-driven indictment of slavery as an economic blight. Addressed to non-slaveholding whites, Helper raids the 1850 census and state reports to show slavery depresses wages, deters immigration and manufacturing, and entrenches planter rule. Part jeremiad, part statistical brief, it stands at the juncture of antislavery agitation and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Company

    The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

    par Stephen Bown ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling.The Company started out small in 1670, trading ... En savoir plus

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  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    par James Joyce, Jacqueline Belanger, Keith Carabine ...
    Collections series Wordsworth Classics
    With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and ... En savoir plus

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