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9780486448510 | Dover Pubns, December 1, 2006, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Essential reading for students of American history and Civil War buffs, this inexpensive volume includes key documents and memorable speeches such as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Lee's "Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia"; Frederick Douglass' lecture, "The War and How to End It"; plus campaign reports, private letters, and more.
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9780486440828 | Dover Pubns, July 26, 2005, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers.
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9780486440972 | Dover Pubns, August 8, 2005, cover price $2.00 | About this edition: From the most eloquent of American presidents, nearly 400 astute observations on subjects ranging from women to warfare: "Bad promises are better broken than kept"; "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory"; "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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9780486437941 | Dover Pubns, January 17, 2005, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: This anthology celebrates the wit and imaginative creativity of the Elizabethan poets with a generous selection of their graceful and sophisticated verse.
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9780486434131 | Dover Pubns, June 17, 2004, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: More than 700 quotations provide a running narrative by the many who lived through or died in the Civil War.
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9780486424477 | Dover Pubns, January 16, 2003, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Inspiring, comforting, and filled with profound poems with religious themes and ideals, this volume features the works of more than 60 British and American poets, including "Holy Sonnets" by John Donne, Ben Jonson's "To the Holy Trinity," "On His Blindness" by John Milton, as well as poems by William Blake, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and many others.
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9780486424651 | Dover Pubns, January 15, 2003, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Spanning 3 centuries, this works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), and The Communist Manifesto (1848).
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9780486419145 | Dover Pubns, December 19, 2001, cover price $2.00 | About this edition: Works by more than 60 Irish poets, from 18th century to modern times, include "Stella's Birthday" by Swift; Goldsmith's "Stanzas on Woman"; "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls" by Moore; Yeats's "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time"; "Strings in the Earth and Air" by Joyce; plus verses by lesser-known poets.
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9780613836982 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $28.15 | About this edition: Presents stories from Tolstoy's childhood, his adaptations of fables and presents his children's work, 'Ivan the Fool and His Two Brothers.
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9780486415987 | Dover Pubns, May 18, 2001, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Brilliant essays comprising a masterful exposition and defense of the proposed federal system of government and of the Constitution's carefully architected system of checks and balances.
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9780486414287 | Dover Pubns, November 2, 2011, cover price $2.00 | About this edition: In more than 600 striking, thought-provoking excerpts, grouped under 17 headings, Thoreau rails against injustice, gives voice to his love of nature, and advocates simplicity and conscious living.
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9780486411224 | Dover Pubns, June 20, 2000, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Remarkable for their eloquence and depth of feeling, these 82 speeches encompass 5 centuries of Indian encounters with nonindigenous peoples.
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9780486411132 | Dover Pubns, March 1, 2000, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A group of young people flee to the countryside from plague-ridden Florence and pass the time in their retreat by telling tales of romance.
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9780915924967 | Teachers & Writers, January 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the years before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded and ran a school on his estate at Yasanya Polyana.
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9780486408750 | Dover Pubns, October 1, 1999, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Over 180 well-chosen Imagist gems appear in this tribute to the 20th century poetic movement that stressed precise language and individual rhythmic style.
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9780486401669 | Dover Pubns, May 1, 1998, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city
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9780486299600 | Dover Pubns, July 7, 1997, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: Three of the finest of the author's numerous short stories include the title piece, a critically acclaimed tale of a romantic triangle; a comedy, "The Distracted Preacher"; and "The Three Strangers," a tribute to community life.
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9780486297682 | Dover Pubns, July 2, 1997, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: An adaptation of the legend of Hercules, son of the god Zeus and a mortal woman and renowned for his great strength, who performs twelve 'impossible' tasks
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9780486299303 | Dover Pubns, July 3, 1997, cover price $2.00 | About this edition: A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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9780486293547 | Dover Pubns, October 1, 1996, cover price $4.00 | About this edition: After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
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9780486288161 | Dover Pubns, January 22, 1996, cover price $2.00 | About this edition: During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
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9780486287539 | Dover Pubns, October 24, 1995, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: Treasury of 70 poems remarkable for lyricism, subtlety, deep emotion and intense perception expressed with a unique diction and imaginative power.
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9780486275734 | Dover Pubns, May 20, 1994, cover price $3.00 | About this edition: Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny
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