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Lexile measure
1080L
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English
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
4) On liberty
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Language
English
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John Stuart Mill's resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this 1859 treatise. Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the publication of this enduring work which applies an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state which to this day remains well known and studied.
Mills (1806-1873), a British economist, philosopher, and ethical theorist whose argument...
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
12) The house of the seven gables: an authortative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism
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Series
Pub. Date
1967
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
x, 484 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
13) Moby-Dick: An authoritative text; Reviews and letters by Melville; Analogues and sources; Criticism
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Series
Pub. Date
1967
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xviii, 728 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
19) Darwin
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Series
Pub. Date
1970
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xiv, 674 pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 22 cm.
Language
English