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Dalkey Archive Essentials eBook Series

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  • Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

    by Marguerite Young ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young’s method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose ... Read more

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  • Angel in the Forest

    A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias

    by Marguerite Young ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to apply Scriptural communism to daily life in order to bring about the New Jerusalem. It was sold in ... Read more

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  • The Little Prince

    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Digital Fire ...
    First published in 1943, ‘The Little Prince’ is a novella and the most famous work by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It is a tender tale of friendship, love and loss. Originally published as Le Petit Prince, in French, it has been voted the best book of the 20th century in France. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, aviator, poet and author. Raised in an aristocratic family, he fell in love ... Read more

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  • Complete Prose Works

    by Walt Whitman ...
    As I sit here by the creek, resting after my walk, a warm languor bathes me from the sun. No sound but a cawing of crows, and no motion but their black flying figures from over-head, reflected in the mirror of the pond below. Indeed a principal feature of the scene today is these crows, their incessant cawing, far or near, and their countless flocks and processions moving from place to place, and ... Read more

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  • The World's Best Short Stories

    by James Joyce, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Horácio Quiroga, Jack London, Nikolai Gogol, H.P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Arthur C. Clarke ...
    This is another volume of the successful Best Short Stories Collection, a selection of masterpieces by authors from various nationalities and with very diverse themes, but sharing an enormous and possibly the most important literary quality: providing pleasure to the reader. In this e-book, you will have access to the Best Foreign Short Stories, a selection of memorable tales written by great ... Read more

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  • Letters from the Earth

    Uncensored Writings

    by Mark Twain ...
    "The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916...The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writing."—New York Times Book ReviewVirtually none of the material in Letters from the Earth was published in Twain's lifetime and the manuscript was only ... Read more

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  • Emily Dickinson

    A selection of poems from one of America’s most iconic poets

    by Emily Dickinson ...
    Series series The Great Poets
    American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all' Emily DickinsonDickinson received a very good education, but chose to return home to Amherst, Massachusetts ... Read more

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  • Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

    by Baroness Orczy ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • American Fairy Tales

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    L. Frank Baum's "American Fairy Tales" is a delightful collection of colorful and imaginative stories that show the author's individual originality and exploration of the American experience. Baum, best known for his renowned "The Wizard of Oz" trilogy, introduces readers to a number of captivating tales that merge fantasy with a touch of Americana. Baum takes readers on a wonderful voyage into a ... Read more

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  • Walden

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and ... Read more

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  • Social England under the Regency

    Enriched edition. Class, Gender, Arts, and Daily Life in Britain's Regency Era (1811–1820)

    by John Ashton ...
    In "Social England under the Regency," John Ashton provides a meticulous exploration of the intricate social fabric and cultural transformations of England during the Regency period (1811-1820). His prose offers a vivid synthesis of historical detail and narrative flair, weaving together anecdotes, societal norms, and popular customs. Ashton's comprehensive approach situates the Regency within the ... Read more

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  • The Last Books of H.G. Wells

    The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether

    by HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson ...
    This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with “human insufficiency.”Mind at the End of its Tether“One approaches it with awe. You come across references to it everywhere: Colin Wilson, Priestly, Koestler. It seems to have been a wounding work; something ... Read more

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