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  • Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Salons, censorship, and the Encyclopédie: a critical portrait of Enlightenment materialism and modern secular culture

    de John Morley, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    In Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), John Morley offers a lucid intellectual biography of Denis Diderot and a history of the Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment's boldest machine for organizing knowledge. He reads Rameau's Nephew, Le Rêve de d'Alembert, Jacques le fataliste, the Salons, and technical entries alongside episodes of censorship and salon sociability. The style is Victorian but ... Leer más

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  • History of France from the Earliest Times (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. From Roman Gaul to Capetian and early Valois rule: feudalism, the Church, communes, and the rise of the Third Estate

    de François Guizot, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    Traducido por Robert Black ...
    In History of France from the Earliest Times (Vol. 1–6), François Guizot offers a sweeping narrative from Roman Gaul and the Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms to the consolidation of Capetian and early Valois monarchy. Weaving chronicles of Gregory of Tours, Einhard, Joinville, Villehardouin, and Froissart with institutional history, he anatomizes feudalism, the Church, communes, and the rising ... Leer más

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  • Bartram's Travels (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Enlightenment-era naturalist travelogue of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida: taxonomy, field observation, and Creek & Cherokee encounters

    de William Bartram, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    First published in 1791, Bartram's Travels surveys the Carolinas, Georgia, and East and West Florida, fusing precise natural history with soaring descriptive prose. Along the St. Johns River, the Alachua Savanna, and the Okefenokee, Bartram records flora and fauna in Linnaean terms, while rendering light, weather, and motion with proto-Romantic intensity. The narrative moves from measurements and ... Leer más

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  • A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Enlightenment expedition: Antarctic Circle crossings, Pacific ethnography, and the fall of Terra Australis

    de James Cook, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    First published in 1777, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (Vol. 1 and 2) distills Cook's 1772-1775 circumnavigation in HMS Resolution (with Furneaux's Adventure initially in company). In spare, data-rich prose he records multiple crossings of the Antarctic Circle, the collapse of Terra Australis, and visits to Tahiti, Tonga, Easter Island, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, ... Leer más

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  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Restoration England journal of 17th-century life: Plague and Great Fire accounts, candid politics, and everyday social dynamics

    de Samuel Pepys, Selene Dorswell, Samuel Harris ...
    Traducido por Mynors Bright ...
    The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete collects the unexpurgated entries he kept from 1660 to 1669, a panorama of Restoration London from playhouse to Navy Office. Pepys chronicles the Great Plague, the Great Fire of 1666, and the Second Dutch War, interleaving public crises with domestic quarrels and pleasures. Written in Shelton shorthand, sprinkled with French and Spanish, its brisk, reportorial ... Leer más

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  • History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. From Late Roman Stoicism to Early Medieval Charity: Ethics and the Christianization of the West

    de William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 & 2) charts the shift in Western ethics from late Roman Stoicism to the Christian moral order of the early Middle Ages. Blending moral philosophy with social history, Lecky examines slavery, charity and hospitals, marriage and celibacy, suicide, persecution, and public amusements. In poised Victorian prose, with copious classical and ... Leer más

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  • Every Man Dies Alone (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Anonymous postcards in wartime Berlin spark a Gestapo manhunt: an urban procedural of tenement life and quiet courage, based on true events.

    de Hans Fallada, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    Every Man Dies Alone follows Otto and Anna Quangel, modest Berliners who leave anonymous postcards denouncing the regime after their son is killed at the front. The campaign threads through stairwells, offices, and police files, attracting a relentless investigator. In plain, documentary prose and multiple viewpoints, Fallada crafts a tense hybrid of urban chronicle and police procedural rooted in ... Leer más

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  • Consequences (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A satirical diary of Alex Clare's fight for personal fulfillment and women's empowerment in early 20th-century Britain's patriarchal society

    de E. M. Delafield, Cassia Vexley, Samuel Harris ...
    Consequences (1919) follows Alex Clare, a well-bred Edwardian girl whose refusal of an eligible proposal exposes the ruthless calculus allotted to women: marriage or marginality. Delafield tracks Alex from drawing rooms and debutante rites to the rigors of a convent, rendering the tug between piety, desire, and duty with unsparing psychological acuity. The prose blends cool social comedy with an ... Leer más

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  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Geometric Satire of Victorian Hierarchy and Dimensional Discovery, from Lineland to Spaceland and Pointland

    de Edwin A. Abbott, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) follows A Square, a meticulous denizen of a plane, whose encounters with Lineland, Spaceland, and the ineffable Pointland expose both the possibilities and the peril of thinking beyond one's dimension. Written in the crisp idiom of Euclidean manuals yet edged with Swiftian satire, the narrative skewers Victorian hierarchies—class, gender, and ... Leer más

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  • Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. High-Frequency AC, Resonant Coils, and Wireless Power Experiments, 1891–1892

    de Nikola Tesla, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    This classic compendium of Tesla's 1891-1892 demonstrations maps the physics and craft of high-frequency alternating currents. Through precise lecture prose interleaved with stage-ready experiments, Tesla details resonant transformers (the Tesla coil), capacitor discharges, brush and corona phenomena, and luminous effects in evacuated tubes, even single-wire lighting that foreshadows wireless ... Leer más

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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Restoration London in Plague, Fire, and the Anglo-Dutch War: Navy Board toil, Charles II's court, theatre revived, prices, music, and candor

    de Samuel Pepys, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660-1669) offers the most immediate portrait of Restoration London, interlacing Navy Board labors with a city reborn under Charles II. In brisk shorthand entries, Pepys chronicles the Plague, the Fire, the Anglo-Dutch War, the theatre's revival, music, prices, and domestic economies. Its style fuses ledger precision, gossip, and self-scrutiny, positioning the work ... Leer más

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  • Spartacus (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A modernist chronicle of the Third Servile War—gladiator uprising, Roman Republic power, and the rank-and-file struggle for freedom

    de Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    In Spartacus, Lewis Grassic Gibbon retells the slave war against the Roman Republic as a severe meditation on freedom, power, and the fate of collective revolt. Rejecting melodrama, he writes in taut, rhythmic prose that moves between campfire councils, battlefields, and the calculating forums of Rome. Shifting viewpoints and aphoristic asides lend a modernist-historical texture typical of the ... Leer más

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