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Utilitarianism (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism", which first appeared in three installments of "Fraser's Magazine" in 1861, was intended as a defense of the notorious doctrine identified with …
Rights of Man (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
"Rights of Man" presents an impassioned defense of the Enlightenment principles of freedom and equality that Thomas Paine believed would soon sweep the world. He boldly claimed, …
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
"The European philosophical tradition...consists of a series of footnotes to Plato". (Alfred North Whitehead). The dialogues of Plato stand alongside the Bible and Homer's "Iliad" …
Around the World in Eighty Days (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
"Around the World in Eighty Days", published originally as a newspaper serial in 1872 and released as a book the following year, was well received in both formats. Its hero, …
Little Dorrit (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
One of Charles Dickens' most personally resonant novels, "Little Dorrit" speaks across the centuries to the modern reader. Its depiction of shady financiers and banking collapses …
The Man Who Was Thursday (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
"The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare 1908" is the most renowned and critically acclaimed novel by the prolific G. K. Chesterton. Equal parts mystery, suspense story, allegory, …
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" is one of the most important and influential works in American history. It tells the story of Franklin's life from his humble beginnings to …
Discourse on Method (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Rene Descartes was born in La Haye, known today as La Haye-Descartes in 1596. After studying classical literature, history, rhetoric, and philosophy at the college des Jesuites de …
Heart Of The West
Heart of the West's humorous and sentimental stories of sheep herders, cow punchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers offer the modern reader a window into the …
Recollections and Letters (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Just as its subject, General Robert E. Lee, was no ordinary man, "The Recollections and Letters" is no ordinary book. In defeat, the formal Confederate general became the …
Cranford (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
"Cranford" is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. By eschewing the conventional marriage …
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is the thesis of a thinker who was a scientist, psychologist, metaphysician, and skeptic who continues to fascinate contemporary minds. …