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The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious thought — have studied these meditations on the life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them a path to prayer a ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes - And Other Travel Writings by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Travel | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest wri ...Show more
Two Classic Utopias by Francis Bacon; Tomasso Campanella; Gregory Claeys (Foreword by)
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In keeping with the inquisitive spirit of their times, two 17th-century writers envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of log ...Show more