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Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....
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In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes, Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...
3) Walden
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English
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An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.
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Distributed by Viking Press
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c1982
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1,380 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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This is the most comprehensive volume of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, that prompted Emerson's famous message to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career". These twelve poems,...
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Library of America volume 24
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
♭1984
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1,478 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
14) Poetry and tales
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1984
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1,408 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
15) Prose and poetry
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1984
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ix, 1,379 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
16) Writings
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1984
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1,600 p. : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 33
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c1985
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1,232 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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