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This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China’s leading dissidents, who was rele... more

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the lantern light seems to have written a poem; they feel lonesome since i won’t read them. --"lante... more

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In the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful ... more

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When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l’âge Cla... more

This volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwrig... more

This edition embraces Strindberg’s crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two fin... more

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The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since ... more

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The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and v... more

Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic ... more

The lights of the Paris Opera House dim and a lovely singer holds the audience spellbound with her e... more

Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japa... more

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"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments o... more

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific... more

Often ranked as the greatest of Plato’s many remarkable writings, this celebrated philosophical work... more

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Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty f... more

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Friedrich Nietzsche s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented,... more

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Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is sti... more

Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur’s earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic i... more

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By combinatorial semigroups, we mean a general term of concepts, facts and methods which are produce... more

Drawing on evidence from eight case studies from across three Asian subregions, this volume highligh... more

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This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World Wa... more

A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving sto... more

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