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The Erotic Poems
This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid …
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The Things They Carried
One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the …
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, …
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Cryptonomicon
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with …
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The Decameron
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
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Catastrophe
An archaeologist presents a radical new view of history, maintaining that a climatic catastrophe around 535 A.D. resulted in chaos, famine, migration, war, and massive political change on every continent.
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Utopia
First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477–1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept …
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