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  • AFTER THE END – Dystopia Box Set: 34 Dystopias and Post-Apocalyptic Works

    by Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Jack London, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, C. S. Lewis, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Fred M. White, George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Hugh Benson, Yevgeny Zamyatin ...
    Translated by Gregory Zilboorg ...
    AFTER THE END – Dystopia Box Set: 34 Dystopias and Post-Apocalyptic Works is a masterful anthology that brings together a sweeping array of perspectives on dystopian and post-apocalyptic narratives. The collection spans centuries of literary craft, weaving together tales that explore the sinister depths of human nature and societies on the brink of collapse. The included works highlight ... Read more

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  • AFTER THE END – Dystopia Box Set: 34 Dystopias and Post-Apocalyptic Works

    Exploring the Depths of Humanity: A Dystopian Journey

    by Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Jack London, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, C. S. Lewis, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Fred M. White, George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Hugh Benson, Yevgeny Zamyatin ...
    Translated by Gregory Zilboorg ...
    AFTER THE END 'Äì Dystopia Box Set: 34 Dystopias and Post-Apocalyptic Works assembles a vast and captivating landscape of dystopian and post-apocalyptic literature. This collection presents an array of themes ranging from societal collapse to the triumph of human resilience, showcasing a spectrum of literary styles, from speculative fiction to allegory. The anthology reflects a profound ... Read more

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  • The Lion and the Unicorn

    Gladstone vs Disraeli

    by Richard Aldous ...
    ‘Engaging and highly entertaining’ Sunday TimesThe dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian.Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age. Their intense hatred was ideological and deeply personal. Victorian Britain ruled the oceans and vast territories 'on which the sun never ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Schlesinger

    The Imperial Historian

    by Richard Aldous ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 41 min

    Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy—and the myth of Camelot—blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian—and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right—Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Dillon Era

    Douglas Dillon in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations

    by Richard Aldous ...
    C. Douglas Dillon – heir to a vast investment banking fortune, and one of the richest men in America during his political career – was a Republican who served in a Democratic administration and became one of the greatest modern treasury secretaries. He believed in bipartisanship and public duty, a sensibility that has all but faded from the current political climate.With exclusive access to the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Schlesinger

    The Imperial Historian

    by Richard Aldous ...
    The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy’s White House.Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy’s presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian—and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tony Ryan

    Ireland's Aviator

    by Richard Aldous ...
    In this authorised biography of one of the most remarkable Irishmen of the twentieth century, Richard Aldous is independent in his judgements and frank in his examination of his subject's shortcomings and eccentricities. But most of all, he writes with verve and pace. Tony Ryan was born in a railwayman's cottage and rose to enormous success, overseeing the spectacular making of two business ... Read more

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    The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly

    by Matt Cooper ...
    I am a maximalist … I want more of everything.'Tony O'Reilly strode into the twenty-first century an Irishman apart. Strikingly good-looking, athletically gifted, irresistibly charismatic and phenomenally wealthy, he had everything any man could want. For many, he was a hero, the living embodiment of Irish potential; for others, he was an arrogant and overbearing presence at the heart of power. ... Read more

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  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Read more

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  • Animal Farm

    by George Orwell ...
    George Orwell's timeless classic. The animals of Manor Farm are planning a revolution against their human owners. What happens when they gain their freedom unfolds as one of the great works of political satire.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions. ... Read more

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  • The Andre Norton MEGAPACK®

    by Andre Norton ...
    The Andre Norton MEGAPACK® collects 15 classic works by the Grand Master of Science Fiction, ranging from science fiction to westerns to mystery. Included are:"The People of the Crater""The Gifts of Asti""Plague Ship""Star Born""All Cats Are Gray""The Time Traders""Voodoo Planet""Storm Over Warlock""Star Hunter""The Defiant Agents""Key Out of Time""Ralestone Luck" (historical)"Ride Proud, Rebel!" ... Read more

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  • East of Eden

    by John Steinbeck ...
    The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which his most mesmerizing characters and enduring themes were created and explored: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this expansive and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of ... Read more

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