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1984

Fiction Dystopian Novel

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip On...

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1984

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George Orwell

The Birth of Tragedy

Philosophy Non-Fiction

The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as T...

The Birth of Tragedy

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Friedrich Nietzsche

The Book of Halloween

Non-Fiction

This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other days in t...

The Book of Halloween

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Ruth Edna Kelley

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

History Mythology Non-Fiction

The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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E.A. Wallis Budge

Feminism in Greek Literature

Non-Fiction

This study, published in 1923, examines the views regarding women's place in Ancient Greek society based especially on the writings of Homer, Euripide...

Feminism in Greek Literature

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Frederick Adam Wright

The Sins of Hollywood

Non-Fiction

Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable hotbed of cr...

The Sins of Hollywood

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Edward Verne Roberts

The Golden Bough

Mythology Non-Fiction Religion

The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging,...

The Golden Bough

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James Frazer

Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners

Memoir Non-Fiction

Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part expose on the...

Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners

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Theodore Dreiser

Poor Richard's Almanack

Philosophy Non-Fiction

Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richa...

Poor Richard's Almanack

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Benjamin Franklin

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

Philosophy Non-Fiction

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Elisabeth Celnart

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

History Non-Fiction

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published...

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

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Charles Mackay

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2

History Non-Fiction Psychology

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."...

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2

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Charles Mackay

The Soul or Rational Psychology

Non-Fiction Psychology Religion

Metaphysical discipline that attempted to determine the nature of the human soul by a priori reasoning. This is a recording of the 1849 translation of...

The Soul or Rational Psychology

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Emanuel Swedenborg

Revolted Woman

Non-Fiction

One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He paints an entir...

Revolted Woman

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Charles George Harper

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Non-Fiction Travel

Domestic Manners of the Americans is a 2-volume 1832 travel book by Frances Milton Trollope, which follows her travels through America and her residen...

Domestic Manners of the Americans

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Frances Trollope

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