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  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

    by Molière, St. John Hankin, Elizabeth F. Guptill, Petronius Arbiter, Anthony Trollope, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Carlyle, George Gibbs, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, Herman Melville, Maria Edgeworth, Marietta Holley, Anatole France, Nelson Lloyd, Voltaire, Samuel Brunt, Archibald Marshal, Gilbert Knox, H. H. Sir Bashford, P. G. Wodehouse, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Love Peacock, William Carlos Williams, Terry Southern, Hilaire Belloc, Iris Barry, C. M. Westmacott, Desiderius Erasmus, I. J. Potter, Montague Glass, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage, Bernard Mandeville, James Thomson, G. W. Foote, Marie Corelli, William Herman, Mark Twain, Ingersoll Lockwood, Jonathan Swift, T. Smollett, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Bertram Gayton, George S. Schuyler, Eugen Richter, Walter Harte, Aristophanes, Bill Nye, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Bridges, James Bramston, Ambrose Bierce, Franklin P. Adams, John Hervey Baron Hervey, An M. D., Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

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  • Pierre

    or, The Ambiguities

    by Herman Melville, William Spengemann ...
    'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o'the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the New York Herald when ... Read more

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  • Feast of Grace

    Psalms and Poems of the Ordinary Around Us

    by William Herman ...
    “Something here is foundational to me.” The first line of the first poem describes the whole arc of this collection. The forty-two poems dance through many seasons, literally and figuratively, grasping after that “something,” looking for answers asked myriad times before, and finally coming to rest, and feast, on the grace that percolates through the ordinary and extraordinary.Most of the poems ... Read more

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  • 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 2] (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Agatha Christie, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, H. P. Lovecraft, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Virginia Woolf, Lucy Maud Montgomery ...
    This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: An Old-fashioned Girl [Louisa May Alcott] The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] The Norsemen in the West [Robert Michael Ballantyne] Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum[ Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Pilgrim's Progress [John Bunyan] The Ghost ... Read more

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  • 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 2] (Black Horse Classics)

    by Agatha Christie, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, H. P. Lovecraft, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Lucy Maud Montgomery ...
    This 2nd volume contains the following 100 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: An Old-fashioned Girl [Louisa May Alcott] The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] The Norsemen in the West [Robert Michael Ballantyne] Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum[ Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Pilgrim's Progress [John Bunyan] The Ghost ... Read more

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  • The Dance of Death

    by William Herman ...
    Example in this ebookCHAPTER I."That motley drama! Oh, be sureIt shall not be forgot!With its Phantom chased for evermoreBy a crowd that seize it not,Through a circle that ever returneth inTo the self-same spot;And much of Madness, and more of SinAnd Horror, the soul of the plot!"Poe.Reader, I have an engagement to keep to-night. Let me take you with me; you will be interested.... ... Read more

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  • The Greatest American Short Stories (Vol. 1)

    Enriched edition. Exploring America's Narrative Heritage Through Diverse Cultural and Emotional Complexities

    by Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Charles W. Chesnutt, H. P. Lovecraft, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Mary Wilkins Freeman ...
    The Greatest American Short Stories (Vol. 1) is a captivating anthology that weaves together the rich tapestry of American literature through an expertly curated selection of short stories. Spanning from the introspective to the adventurous, from the gothic to the realist, this collection showcases a diverse array of styles and themes that have defined the literary landscape of the United States. ... Read more

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  • The Dance of Death

    A Haunting Tale of Existential Struggle and Mortality in Dark Romanticism

    by William Herman ...
    In "The Dance of Death," William Herman presents a haunting exploration of mortality through a collection of poignant poetic reflections. The work embodies a lyrical style that intertwines rich imagery with philosophical musings, capturing the essence of life'Äôs transience. Set against the backdrop of contemporary existential thought, Herman masterfully weaves historical and cultural references ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Literary Masterpieces for the Holiday Season

    Enriched edition. 150 Everlasting Masterpieces of the World Literature

    by Jane Austen, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells, Herman Melville, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, William Makepeace Thackeray0, P. B. Shelley1, Mary Shelley2, John Keats3, Charlotte Brontë4, Emily Brontë5, Anne Brontë6, George Eliot7, Charles Dickens8, Thomas Hardy9, Elizabeth von Arnim0, D. H. Lawrence1, Ann Ward Radcliffe2, Bram Stoker3, Arthur Conan Doyle4, Joseph Conrad5, Oscar Wilde6, Lewis Carroll7, Frances Hodgson Burnett8, George Weedon Grossmith9, Willkie Collins0, G. K. Chesterton1, E. M. Forster2, T. S. Eliot3, James Joyce4, George Bernard Shaw5, W. B. Yeats6, Sir Walter Scott7, Robert Louis Stevenson8, Kenneth Grahame9, George MacDonald0, J. M. Barrie1, Mark Twain2, Jack London3, Nathaniel Hawthorne4, Louisa May Alcott5, Willa Cather6, Edith Wharton7, Kate Chopin8, Henry David Thoreau9, Walt Whitman0, Kahlil Gibran1, Harriet Beecher Stowe2, Frederick Douglass3, James Fenimore Cooper4, Henry James5, Edgar Allan Poe6, H. P. Lovecraft7, Lewis Wallace8, L. M. Montgomery9, Homer0, Plato1, Apuleius2, Marcus Aurelius3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe4, Herman Hesse5, Friedrich Nietzsche6, Jules Verne7, Marcel Proust8, Victor Hugo9, Gustave Flaubert0, Gaston Leroux1, Honoré de Balzac2, Stendhal3, Voltaire4, Charles Baudelaire5, Alexandre Dumas6, Emile Zola7, Henrik Ibsen8, Leo Tolstoy9, Fyodor Dostoyevsky0, Ivan Turgenev1, Anton Chekhov2, Nikolai Gogol3, Miguel de Cervantes4, Benito Pérez Galdós5, Pedro Calderon de la Barca6, Dante7, Giovanni Boccaccio8, Niccolò Machiavelli9, Rabindranath Tagore0, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee1, Kalidasa2, Válmíki3, Laozi4, Sun Tzu5, Confucius6, Cao Xueqin7, Princess Der Ling8, Inazo Nitobé9, Kakuzo Okakura00, Soseki Natsume01, Charlotte Perkins Gilman02, F. Scott Fitzgerald03, William Dean Howells04, Washington Irving05, L. Frank Baum06, Theodor Storm07, Juan Valera08, Rudyard Kipling09, Jayden Walsh12 ...
    The 'Greatest Literary Masterpieces for the Holiday Season' is an anthology that offers readers an unparalleled journey through varied landscapes of human thought and emotion, mapped out by an illustrious group of authors whose works have shaped the course of literature. This collection articulates a rich tapestry of themes, from the exploration of societal norms to the introspection of personal ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Beat Life

    by William Herman ...
    With a musician’s ear for dialog and a painter’s eye for detail, William Herman creates characters to reveal universal truths about human relationships. The stories in The Man Who Beat Life are often ironic and tragic, but never boring.In PAIN, a woman’s visit to the doctor becomes a complex and life-changing event for both of them. JUDAIC STUDIES portrays a scholar on vacation in Vienna contacted ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

    by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M Forster, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, Herman Melville, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, Bram Stoker ...
    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Moby-Dick

    by Herman Melville, William Hootkins ...
    Narrated by William Hootkins ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 50 min

    ‘Call me Ishmael’ Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write ‘a mighty book about a mighty theme’ and so he did. It is a story of one man’s obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of the Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history and a ... Read more

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