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222) Jacques Futrelle's "the thinking machine": the enigmatic problems of Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen
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Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
223) Essential stories
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Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN "In his daily walks through London," notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, "Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity is the norm, not the exception." This finely attuned sense, coupled with an understanding that nothing in life is mundane, is what makes these stories so immensely enjoyable. Drawing on a vast treasure chest...
224) The duel
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Series
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of his dependent mistress, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Von Koren, the scientist, delivers a scathing critique of Loevskys egotism, forcing the young man to examine his...
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Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
An annotated edition of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," which contains more than thirty essays, sketches, and tales by nineteenth-century American writer Washington Irving, including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This is an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought-from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer.
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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"One of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of the NAACP, and the first African American to hold a diplomatic post as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. This comprehensive volume of Johnson's works includes the seminal novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, poems from God's Trombones, essays on cultural and political...
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Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction."--Jacket.
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