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“miles barrett”

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  • Time and Free Will (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A philosophical essay on duration, time perception, and the metaphysics of freedom in continental thought

    by Henri Bergson, Miles Barrett, Miles Barrett ...
    Translated by F. L. Pogson ...
    Time and Free Will argues that lived time (durée) is a qualitative flow, not the homogeneous, spatialized time of mechanics. Through analyses of intensity, the interpenetration of mental states, and the famous melody example, Bergson critiques psychophysics' arithmetic of the mind and the determinism it supports. In lucid, image-rich prose, the essay straddles psychology and metaphysics, opposing ... Read more

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  • Kama Sutra (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Ancient love practices and cultural intimacy explored with scholarly commentary, historical sexuality insights, and seduction techniques

    by Richard Francis Burton, Bennett Stanhope, Miles Barrett ...
    Composed in classical Sanskrit by Vātsyāyana, the Kama Sutra is not merely a manual of sexual technique but a urbane treatise on householding, courtship, aesthetic refinement, and civic etiquette. In Richard Francis Burton's influential English edition, the text appears in ornate Victorian prose, surrounded by copious notes that gloss technical terms and compare customs across cultures. Issued ... Read more

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  • Barbarous Mexico (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A journalist's eyewitness exposé of injustice, oppression, and corruption under Porfirio Díaz in early 20th-century Mexico.

    by John Kenneth Turner, Kara Brackley, Miles Barrett ...
    Barbarous Mexico is John Kenneth Turner's incendiary reportage on the Porfirio Díaz regime, exposing debt peonage on Yucatán henequen estates, the deportation of Yaqui people, the criminalization of labor, and U.S. investors' complicity. In the idiom of Progressive-era muckraking—documentary, polemical, and vividly observed—it braids interviews, records, and covert observation into a prosecutorial ... Read more

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  • Babbitt (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A 1920s American character study of middle-class conformity, social climbing, and the ethics of real estate and business

    by Sinclair Lewis, Miles Barrett, Miles Barrett ...
    Published in 1922, Babbitt is Sinclair Lewis's incisive anatomy of American middle-class life, following George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real-estate broker in the bustling, fictional city of Zenith. With merciless irony and sympathetic nuance, Lewis catalogs Rotary luncheons, sales patter, gadgets, and civic boosterism, tracing how consumer spectacle and clubby conformity shape desires and speech. ... Read more

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  • A New Voyage to Carolina (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An 18th-Century Carolina travelogue of natural history, indigenous nations, flora and fauna, and early American colonization

    by John Lawson, Cassia Vexley, Miles Barrett ...
    First published in 1709, A New Voyage to Carolina fuses travelogue, natural history, and colonial prospectus into a lucid portrait of the Carolinas. Lawson surveys climate, soils, and waterways; inventories pines, vines, fishes, and game; and notes the growing trade in naval stores. He also depicts the lifeways, diplomacy, and economies of neighboring nations, including Tuscarora and Catawba. ... Read more

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  • The Founding of New England (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Early American settlements, colonial religious foundations, and political landscapes explored by a Pulitzer Prize historian

    by James Truslow Adams, Miles Barrett, Miles Barrett ...
    In The Founding of New England, James Truslow Adams crafts a lucid, archive-based narrative of seventeenth-century Puritan settlement from Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut and Rhode Island. Blending political, religious, and economic history, he treats covenant theology, congregational polity, town meetings, household labor, Atlantic commerce, and fraught Native relations, including ... Read more

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  • A Cruising Voyage around the World (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Authoritative Account of 18th-Century Privateer Adventures and Pirate Encounters

    by Woodes Rogers, Kara Brackley, Miles Barrett ...
    A Cruising Voyage Around the World (1712) recounts Woodes Rogers's privateering circumnavigation of 1708–1711 aboard the Duke and Duchess. In brisk, practical prose that fuses logbook precision with commercial commentary, it records latitudes, landfalls, provisioning, disease, coastal ethnographies, and battle reports—from rescuing Alexander Selkirk on Juan Fernández to seizing a Manila galleon ... Read more

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  • Lord of the World (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Antichrist and End Times in a Political Dystopia: 21st-Century London, Catholic Resistance, and Religious Persecution

    by Robert Hugh Benson, Miles Barrett, Miles Barrett ...
    Lord of the World imagines an early twentieth century future where humanitarian secularism consolidates a global state, pacifying life through efficiency, spectacle, and euthanasia. At its core are Father Percy Franklin, an English priest, and Julian Felsenburgh, a preternaturally charismatic statesman. Written in urgent, prophetic prose, the novel fuses parliamentary realism, technological ... Read more

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  • Lord of the World (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A dystopian London tale of two priests confronting an Anti-Christ regime, Catholic politics, and the looming end of the world.

    by Robert Hugh Benson, Miles Barrett, Miles Barrett ...
    Lord of the World envisions a near-future world-state enthralled by benevolent secular "humanitarianism," as the charismatic diplomat Julian Felsenburgh rises to quasi-messianic rule and the Catholic Church is driven underground. In brisk, reportorial yet devotional prose, Benson fuses dystopia with apocalyptic eschatology, pitting airships and committees against catacombs and martyrdom while ... Read more

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  • The Dream of the Red Chamber (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An aristocratic Qing dynasty saga of tragic love, opulent households, and cultural critique with profound psychological depth

    by Cao Xueqin, Graham Montrose, Miles Barrett ...
    Translated by H. Bencraft Joly ...
    The Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng) charts the Jia clan's rise and collapse through the fated love of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai. Framed by a sentient stone and crimson pearl flower, it fuses Buddhist‑Daoist allegory with minute social realism—garden revels, household economies, ritual, and the textures of silk, verse, and tea. Lucid vernacular prose interleaves hundreds of ... Read more

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  • Celtic Legends & Myths (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A timeless collection of Irish and Welsh mythic tales—heroic journeys, magical realism, spiritual themes, and cultural heritage

    by T. W. Rolleston, Miles Barrett, Miles Barrett ...
    Celtic Legends & Myths gathers the great narrative cycles of the Celtic world—Irish Mythological, Ulster, and Fenian tales alongside Welsh materials from the Mabinogion and Arthurian tradition—into a coherent panorama. Rolleston's lucid Edwardian prose balances vivid storytelling with concise exposition, clarifying motifs of sovereignty, geis, prophecy, and the Otherworld. Attentive to medieval ... Read more

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  • The Dain Curse (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A hardboiled Prohibition-era mystery featuring the Continental Op—noir, pulp, and classic American crime at its sharpest

    by Dashiell Hammett, Miles Barrett, Miles Barrett ...
    The Dain Curse follows Hammett's unnamed Continental Op from a jewel theft into a chain of deaths shadowing the Dain family and a cult called the Temple of the Holy Grail. Set in San Francisco and along the California coast, its three-part design blends Gothic claustrophobia—drug ravages, haunted inheritance—with hard-boiled minimalism: clipped first-person, sardonic dialogue, and exacting ... Read more

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