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Dalkey Archive Essentials eBook Series

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  • Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

    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

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angel in the Forest

    A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias

    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

    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 / Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

    by Walt Whitman ...
    Immerse yourself in the profound reflections and vivid memories of a literary giant who witnessed the birth of a modern nation. From the haunting realities of Civil War hospitals to quiet meditations on nature and mortality, these essays offer an unparalleled window into a brilliant mind. The raw, unfiltered observations capture the pulse of a changing society and the deep empathy of a soul ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The World's Best Short Stories

    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

    $2.99 CAD

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emily Dickinson

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

    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

    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

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Fairy Tales

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the previous year.The twelve stories were published in this order in the first edition."The Box of Robbers.""The Glass Dog.""The Queen of Quok.""The Girl Who Owned a Bear.""The Enchanted Types.""The Laughing ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Walden

    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

    $6.99 CAD

  • Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

    Baroness Orczy or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution, ... Read more

    $1.20 CAD

  • The Last Books of H.G. Wells

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

    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

    $9.99 CAD