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The classic story of Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab so crazed by his desire to kill the whale that he is prepared to sacrifice his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find revenge.
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"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom...
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Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. At first, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches high. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet high. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky and to a land where horses are endowed...
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Great books of the Western world volume 26-27
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
6) Major works
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Great books of the Western world volume 54
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 4
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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©1952.
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English
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A retelling of Homer's account of the Trojan War, and of the story of Odysseus' adventures on his homeward voyage.
8) Dialogues
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Great books of the Western world volume 7
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 46
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 39
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 12
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 5
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
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[1952]
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English
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The plays of Aeschylus, p.1 -- the plays of sophocles, p.99 -- The plays of Euripides, P.203 -- The plays of aristophanes, p.455.
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Great books of the Western world volume 11
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 15
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1952]
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The Annals was Tacitus' final work and provides a key source for modern understanding of the history of the Roman Empire from the beginning of the reign of Tiberius in AD 14 to the end of the reign of Nero, in AD 68. Tacitus wrote the Annals in at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. The period covered by the Histories (written before the Annals) starts at the beginning of the year AD 69, i.e. six months after...
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Great books of the Western world volume 25
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1952]
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual exercises with casual anecdotes and autobiography--and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts" or "Trials") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne...
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Great books of the Western world volume 30
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William Benton / Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1952]
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English
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Francis Bacon's, The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." With this newly designed and reset edition, this important...
17) The almagest
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Great books of the Western world volume 16
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 31
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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[1955, ©1952]
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 22
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1955
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 43
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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1952
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English
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