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In "Beyond Good and Evil" Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind...

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The Malleus Maleficarum or "Hammer of Witches" is the best known and the most important treatise on witchcraft. It endorses extermination of witches and for this purpose develops a detailed legal and theological theory. It was a bestseller, second...

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, hau...

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Wallace Delois Wattles (1860-1911) was an American author. As a New Thought writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles often trave...

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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is an American coming-of-age story. The novel is considered to be autobiographical and the character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Thomas Wolfe himself. Set in the fictio...

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas. Alice was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner G...

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"Emile, or On Education" or "mile, or Treatise on Education" is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due to a section of the bo...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of c...

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The Making of Americans is a modernist novel that traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Being ostensibly a history of three generations of and everyone they knew or ...

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These two books will help you in channelling your inner divinity to become a master of your own fate. Bring all the positive energies back in your life! Henry Harrison Brown (1840-1918) was an Editor and publisher of NOW in 1900s. He also served i...

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During one return home, Sir Percy tells the story of Andr Vallon, a young Jacobin, to the Prince of Wales. Andr, wishing to revenge himself on a despotic seigneur, uses the Jacobins' rise to force the seigneur's daughter to marry him. Once wed, th...

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This action packed adventure edition tells the story of the heroic Sir Percy Blakeney and his friends and helpers, especially their exploits in rescuing various aristocrats and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The League of the...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of Frankenstein as first published anonymously in 1818. This original version is much more true to the spirit of the author's original intentions than the heavily re...

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The Jungle Book is a collection of stories. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, familie...

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Captains Courageous is an adventure novel. The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his...

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The theme of celibacy was important to Balzac, who gave the name The Celibates to a sub-section of his famous La Comdie humaine. It consists of Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours and The Black Sheep (The Two Brothers). "Pierrette" tells the story of a ...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter: 22 Children's Books with 650+ Original Illustrations in One Volume"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Tale of Peter R...

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Babylon was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BCE. The city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods...

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Die Frau in Weiß ist ein Roman von Wilkie Collins, der 1860 erschien. Das Buch gilt als das erste dem Genre des typischen englischen "Mystery Novel" zugehörige Werk. Zur Inhalt: Der Kunstlehrer Walter Hartright soll die beiden Halbschwes...

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This book is one of Errico Malatesta's most influential writings. It sets forth the basic principles of anarchism. Besides expressing the basics of Anarchism he also gave arguments against Socialism and Capitalism. Malatesta shows in a concise way...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, presented mostly as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wi...

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The King in Yellow is a book of short stories named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The book features highly esteemed weird stories and supernatural tales. Table of Contents: "The Repairer of R...

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The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view of the 14th centu...

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William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to The...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;CHARLES DICKENS Ultimate Collection"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:NovelsOliver TwistThe Pickwick PapersNicholas NicklebyThe Old Curiosity ShopBarnaby Rudg...

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Discover the golden age of science fiction with some of the best stories of intergalactic wars, space adventures and alien contact in this Ray Bradbury collection of selected planet stories: Jonah of the Jove-Run Zero Hour Rocket Summer Lorelei of...

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