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  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects. ... Read more

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  • Oxford World's Classics: The Deerslayer

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D. H. Lawrence said was perhaps `lovelier than any place created in language'. This novel, and the contemporaneous The Pathfinder, mark Cooper's return to historical romance after ... Read more

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  • The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea (Mobi Classics)

    The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • The Sources of the Susquehanna

    Near the centre of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. It is among these hills that the Delaware takes its rise; and flowing from the limpid lakes and thousand springs of this region the numerous sources of the Susquehanna meander ... Read more

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  • The Prairie

    A Sweeping and Atmospheric Frontier ClassicThe Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper is a richly atmospheric adventure that captures the vastness, danger, and solitude of the American frontier. The novel combines exploration, conflict, survival, and reflection, with Natty Bumppo appearing in a later stage of life and bringing a more contemplative tone to the story.Cooper’s descriptions of the landscape ... Read more

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    by James Fenimore CooperDownloadin EPUB format, also available for Kindle or in PDFThe Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. ... Read more

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  • The Whole Five Feet

    What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everthing Else

    This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom "makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion" ( The New York Times Book Review).While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned "five foot shelf" of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Short Story

    100 Classic Masterpieces

    This is an anthology for people who love story-telling. Our one hundred classic masterpieces were selected purely for their capacity to delight, instruct and charm. In this collection, readers will encounter some of the finest writing in world literature.We have chosen to arrange the stories thematically, dividing the anthology into ten parts as follows:CharactersAnimalsEpiphaniesMystery and ... Read more

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  • Stealing History

    by Gerald Stern ...
    In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a kind of diary of a mind, Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating the immediacy of dailiness, he writes with entertaining engagement about what he’s reading, be it ... Read more

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  • Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (Book Analysis)

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    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Veronika Decides to Die with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho, which tells the emotional story of a suicidal woman who is determined to end her life and follows her journey to discovering her true self and the meaning of life. The novel has inspired various ... Read more

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  • Wyoming: A Novel

    by Barry Gifford ...
    A subtle, impeccably rendered new novel from one of America's most distinctive writers.A woman and her young son are traveling together by car through the southern and midwestern United States in the mid-to-late 1950s. As the mother drives, she and the boy, Roy, talk about their lives, their disappointments, and their dreams. "Wyoming" exists as a state of mind rather than an actual place, a place ... Read more

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  • African American Literature Beyond Race

    An Alternative Reader

    Fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Octavia E. Butler, and others that isn't focused on race—with original introductions by leading scholars.It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. As a result, writings that are not preoccupied with race ... Read more

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