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Collected Stories of Frank O’Connor

Collected Stories is a collection of 67 of Frank O’Connor’s best-known short stories, first published in 1981. The introduction to the collection was written by celebrated literary critic Richard Ellmann. O’Connor expert Michael A. Steinman has pointed out that this collection is really “more ‘selected’ than ‘collected’” since “it [only] contains one-third of O’Connor’s stories”.

France and England in North America

Multi-volume history of the European colonization of North America, written by Francis Parkman and published between 1865 and 1892, which highlights the military struggles between France and Great Britain

Pensees

Collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal

Dreams from My Father

Memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate

The Origins of European Thought

Onians’ remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients

Gone With the Wind

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