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  • The Essential Writings of Machiavelli

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.The volume features essays that appear in English for the first time, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Essential Writings of Rousseau

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Newly translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with an Introduction by Leo DamroschThe Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Essential Prose of John Milton

    by John Milton ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonThe legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library’s definitive The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this indispensable collection, authoritatively annotated and updated for this new volume, now includes selections from Milton’s Commonplace ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    “A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.”–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of the NAACP, and the first African American to hold a diplomatic post as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. This ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ethics

    The Essential Writings

    by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer—and cover a broad range of topics, from the timeless questions of justice, morality, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Sport of the Gods

    and Other Essential Writings

    by Paul Laurence Dunbar ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872—1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar’s essential essays and short stories, and his finest poems, such as “Sympathy,” all which explore ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Perfection of Wisdom Tradition

    Three Essential Works

    by Gareth Sparham, Sherab Ngok Loden, Rinchen Gyaltsab Darma, Karpo Kunkhyen Pema ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    The foremost translator of Perfection of Wisdom literature from Tibetan today presents three foundational works that formed the basis for the Tibetans’ study of Mahayana scripture and the bodhisattva path.The perfection of wisdom (prajnaparamita) is a key element of the path in Mahayana Buddhism. Wisdom here is the transcendent wisdom of a bodhisattva who has penetrated the nature of reality, the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 50 Classic US Self-Help Works

    The American Success & New Thought Library

    by Various Authors, Multiple Authors, The Essential Classics Library, George S. Clason, Orison Swett Marden, Douglas Fairbanks, H.A. Lewis, Dale Carnegie, William Crosbie Hunter, Florence S. Shinn, Florence Scovel Shinn, Christian Larson, Ernest S. Holmes, Charles F. Haanel, William W. Atkinson, Charles Fillmore, Robert Collier, Napoleon Hill, Russell H. Conwell, Benjamin Franklin, Henry H. Brown, Wallace D. Wattles, P.T. Barnul ...
    Series Book 2 - 50 Essential Classics You Must Read
    50 Classic Self-Help Works The American Success & New Thought Library This volume gathers fifty foundational works that shaped the American philosophy of success. Written between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these books established the principles of wealth creation, mental discipline, persuasive influence, and spiritual law that continue to inform modern self-development ... Read more

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  • 50 Essential Classics You Must Read - British Literature

    The Definitive British Literature Collection from Beowulf to the Romantic Poets

    by Anonymous, The Essential Classics Library, William Langland, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Malory, Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, M.G. Lewis, Mary Shelley, William Beckford, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Various Authors, Multiple Authors ...
    Series Book 1 - 50 Essential Classics You Must Read
    A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature. This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On The Shortness Of Life & Selected Letters

    The Essential Seneca on Time, Focus, and Living Deliberately

    by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, M.A. Aponte ...
    Translated by Aubrey Stewart ...
    Series series TIL Classics
    Seneca's On the Shortness of Life and 27 essential Stoic letters, in one annotated edition for modern readers.You do not have too little time. You waste too much of it. That is the argument Seneca made nearly two thousand years ago, and it lands harder today than it did in Rome. On the Shortness of Life is one of the most direct books ever written on time, focus, and attention, and the clearest ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music

    by Allan Kozinn ...
    A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available todayFor classical music lovers, there is nothing more beguiling and exciting than the range of technique and emotion that can capture or transform the great works in the hands of a conductor and musicians. But with hundreds of recordings released every year, discovering the jewels is a challenge, for newcomers as well ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library

    10 Timeless Classics of Stoicism, Philosophy, Strategy and Self-Mastery

    by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Laozi, Plato, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Allen ...
    Discover ten enduring guides to courage, discipline, leadership and the examined life. This essential library unites Meditations, Moral Letters to Lucilius, The Enchiridion, Tao Te Ching, The Republic, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Prince, Beyond Good and Evil and As a Man Thinketh. From Stoic calm and Eastern wisdom to strategy and modern self-mastery, the works are arranged as a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus