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  • Libraries of the Mind

    by William Marx ...
    Series series The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture
    How we build our invisible librariesErich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisible library of his mind. Each of us has such a library—if not as extensive as Auerbach’s—even if we are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Hatred of Literature

    by William Marx ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of literature as seen through the eyes of its adversaries: philosophers, theologians, scientists, pedagogues, and even leaders of modern liberal democracies. From Plato to C. P. Snow to Nicolas Sarkozy, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    50 Short Story Masterpieces you have to listen before you die (Golden Deer Classics)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, O.Henry, Mark Twain, Kahlil Gibran, W.W. Jacobs, Anonymous, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, Plato, Lord Alfred Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, William Dean Howells, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Edgar Allan Poe, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Patrick Henry, H.G. Wells, Saki, Herman Melville, Clement Clarke Moore, Bret Harte, Immanuel Kant, Jack London, Henry Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, John Muir ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 31 min

    F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 02. O.Henry - The Gift of the Magi 03. Mark Twain - On The Decay of the Art of Lying 04. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 05. E.A. Poe - The Raven 06. Kahlil Gibran - The Madman 07. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw 08. Anonymous - Aladdin 09. The Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence 10. Plato - The Apology of Socrates 11. Lord Alfred ... Read more

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  • T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition

    by Anderson D. Araujo, Hazel Atkins, William Blissett, William C. Charron, Thomas Dilworth, David Huisman, Charles Huttar, Dominic Manganiello, William Marx, Christopher McVey, James Seaton, Shunichi Takayanagi, James Matthew Wilson, John D. Morgenstern Jr., Lee Oser, Paul Robichaud ...
    T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion to Catholic Christianity.Many studies of Eliot's writings have mentioned his religious beliefs, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • What Makes the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer

    by William Graham Sumner, Karl Marx, . Collection ...
    What Makes the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer? Through this question, this book deals with the effect of capitalist competition on the social classes. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Vol. 3

    by Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, William Melillo, William Melillo, Bill Marx, Bill Marx, J. C. De La Torre, J. C. De La Torre0, Robert L. Mills JD1, Alan Reed6, Victor Gates7, Carl Memling8 ...
    Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Bill Marx, Robert L. Mills JD2, Lorie Kellogg3, Kenny Savoy4, Orson Welles5, Jim Folly9, Roger Hendricks Simon0, John Houseman1, Alison Nead2, Cathi Tully3, Rick Ramos4, James Patrick Cronin5 ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    This collection offers more audio drama, comedy, biography, and documentary from veteran award-winning radio dramatist Joe Bevilacqua (a.k.a. Joe Bev). Together with his wife, Lorie Kellogg, Bevilacqua has amassed thousands of hours of audio entertainment through his Waterlogg Productions and Blackstone Audio.Each half hour is beautifully produced with an original cast of professional actors, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Phantom Death and Other Stories (Unabridged)

    by William Clark Russell ...
    Narrated by Melissa Sherry, Bernard Marx, James Staubin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    In the eerie depths of the high seas, where shadows dance and secrets lurk, William Clark Russell's "The Phantom Death and Other Stories" beckons you into a realm of maritime mystery and suspense. Join a cast of enigmatic sailors, haunted by the specter of death and the unknown. From the chilling tale of a phantom ship to the haunting echoes of a lost love, these stories will grip your imagination ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • On Literature

    by Umberto Eco ...
    A wide-ranging collection of essays on the importance and meaning of literature by "one of the most influential thinkers of our time" ( Los Angeles Times).In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his long and celebrated career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anarchist Handbook

    by Michael Malice ...
    Anarchism has been both a vision of a peaceful, cooperative society—and an ideology of revolutionary terror. Since the term itself—anarchism—is a negation, there is a great deal of disagreement on what the positive alternative would look like. The black flag comes in many colors.The Anarchist Handbook is an opportunity for all these many varied voices to speak for themselves, from across the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

    by Lorraine Daston ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

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  • On the Wealth of Nations

    by P. J. O'Rourke ...
    Series series Books That Changed the World
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling political humorist reads Adam Smith's classic economic treatise—so you don't have to.Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long. The original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes—including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page "Digression ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    "An award-winning translator describes and defends his profession. . . . Ultimately illuminating, even transformative." — Kirkus Reviews"Dazzingly inventive." — New York Times Book Review , A Notable Book of the Year"A richly original cultural history." — The Economist , A Book ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD