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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...
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Though written in the 1850s, 'The Scarlet Letter' is a story fit for our modern times, with its exploration of female independence in a restrictive society where the concept of sin is used as a repressive instrument of control, particularly of women. A clear inspiration for Margaret Atwood's dystopian powerhouse, 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Hawthorne artfully highlights the hypocricy of Hester Prynne's humiliation, and charts her struggle to assert her...
4) 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
Pub. Date
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,...
9) 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 30
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Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
c1985
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1,328 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
11) Collected works
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Library of America volume 39
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1988
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1,281 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
12) Later novels
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Library of America volume 49
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
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988 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
13) Early works
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Library of America
Pub. Date
1991
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936 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 66-67
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1993
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2 v. ; 22 cm.
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English
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English
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays are an American classic. These essays explore Emerson's thoughts about transcendentalism and romanticism. Some of the most famous essays in this collection are Self Reliance, Compensation, The Over, Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics.
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Library of America volume 70
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1994
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637 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 69
Publisher
Library of America
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x, 937 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 81
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
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1,036 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 76
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
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906 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 75
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
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1,001 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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