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Infamous speeches

from Robespierre to Osama bin Laden
2011
A collection of public addresses with hateful connotations that have invoked racism, genocide, terrorism, and other extreme views, and featuring select speeches by Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Joseph R. McCarthy, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Osama bin Laden, and others.

Oscar Wilde's wit and wisdom

a book of quotations
1998
Presents nearly four hundred quotations by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, arranged by theme.

Great love poems

1992
A collection of over 150 love poems by English and American poets, written over the course of more than four centuries.

The school for scandal

1991
Contains the text of the eighteenth century English comedy.

Meditations

1997
A series of meditations written by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in which he contemplates life, death, and duty, as they relate to his belief in the Stoic principles of moderation and virtuous conduct based on right reason.

The warden

1998
Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, becomes the target of young zealous reformer, John Bold, who accuses Harding of misusing church funds.

Volpone

and, The alchemist
2004
Contains two comedies by Ben Jonson, "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" that portray the greed, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society.

Songs for the open road

poems of travel & adventure
1999
Presents a collection of over ninety poems of travel and adventure by fifty American and British writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Oscar Wilde, Tennyson, and others.

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