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Anna Karenina is one of the grand tragedies of the 19th century. A Russian aristocrat leaves her husband to marry a dashing officer Count Vronsky. But their scandalous love affair and marriage is beset on all sides. By outrage and scorn from without and mistrust and possessiveness from within. William Falkner called it the greatest novel ever written.

David Hume_x0019_ s An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is often called Hume_x0019_ s second Enquiry. His approach in the second Enquiry is largely an empirical one. Instead of beginning his moral inquiry with questions of how morality ought to operate he purports to investigate primarily how we actually do make moral judgments. Of this work Hume said _x001C_ of all my writings historical philosophical or literary incomparably the best._x001D_

David Hume_x0019_ s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding was a simplification of an earlier effort Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise of Human Nature He felt that if _x001C_ fell dead-born from the press _x001D_ as he put it and so tried again to disseminate his ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work. The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects. This book was highly influential Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his _x001C_ dogmatic slumber._x001D_ The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

An American Tragedy is a tour de force one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines it follows Clyde Griffiths a handsome ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize the American Dream. It's an ambitious novel that unflinchingly confronts the lie of the American Dream and myth of a classless society with opportunities for all and an extraordinary crime novel that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page.Nothing short of monumental.- Kirkus

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer treasure hunter and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. In this the third Quartermain book we get a more personal glimpse into the life of a legend!

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer treasure hunter and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Thrill with Allan as he heads out on his second grand adventure.

In Acres of Diamonds Russell H. Conwell shows us how to identify the riches and opportunity that lie all around us. Many people search their entire life for opportunity never realizing that everything they need to succeed is already within their reach if only they recognized it.

Before there was Gandalf and Dumbledore there was Merlin the legendary adviser to King Arthur. Shrouded in the magical mist of time Merlin is the wizard that all other wizards are measured against. Collected here in one edition are the stories and legends that inspired a tradition including Merlin's Youth by George Parker Bidder; The Prophecies of Merlin and the Birth of Arthur by Sir James Knowles; Merlin by Beatrice Clay; The Prophecy of Merlin by Anne Bannerman; The Wisdom of Merlyn by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; Wise Merlin's Foolishness by U. Waldo Cutler; Merlin I by Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Story of Merlin by Howard Pyle; The Egyptian Maid or The Romance of the Water-Lily by William Wordsworth; Merlin and Vivien by Lord Alfred Tennyson; Merlin II by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Merlin and the Gleam by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Excalibur by Sir Thomas Malory; Merlin's Song by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Merlin's Grave by Sallie Bridges; Merlin's Last Prophecy by George Darley; Merlin in Avalon by Geoffrey Junior; Merlin's Tomb by Robert Buchanan.