George Orwell’s collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following, in 4 volumes: An Age Like This, 1920-1940 My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943 As I Please, 1943-1946 In Front of Your Nose, 1946-1950 One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell …
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1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
8 AD Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship’s open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti …
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Collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman
American physicist, an associate professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights
Collection of short stories by Flannery O’Connor comprising all the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge plus several previously unavailable stories
