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22 books

Iam

Shakespeare's Verse: Iambic Pentameter and the Poet's Idiosyncrasies
The Strict Metrical Tradition: Variations in the Literary Iambic Pentameter From Sidney and Spenser to Matthew Arnold
Iambic Pentameter from Shakespeare to Browning: A Study in Generative Metrics
Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms
The Poet's Handbook
The Poetry Handbook
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion

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65 books

Loa

Hawthorne
Poetry and Prose
Essays and Lectures
Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches
Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales (Library of America)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod

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261 books

Must Read

Middlemarch
War and Peace
Between the Acts
Night and Day
The Years
Pride and Prejudice
The Aeneid

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25 books

Next76

Gettysburg
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
The Age of Jackson
The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution

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2 books

Nofic Classics

The Souls of Black Folk
Letters on England

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11 books

Nonfic Baseball

Men at Work
One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
The Boys of Summer
The Era, 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball

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218 books

Nonfic Bios

Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
George Washington: A Biography
James Madison: A Biography
John Adams: A Life
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
His Excellency: George Washington

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49 books

Nonfic Cinema

Encyclopedia of Western Movies
The Encyclopedia of Westerns
The Western Reader
Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion: The Guide to Non-Traditional Animation Techniques
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
Rio Bravo

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10 books

Nonfic Essays

The Essays, Vol. 1: 1904-1912
Collected Essays by Virginia Woolf Volume 2
The Essays, Vol. 3: 1919-1924
The Essays, Vol. 4: 1925-1928
The Essays, Vol. 5: 1929-1932
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol 6: 1933 to 1941

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8 books

Nonfic Exploration

The stowaway
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

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1 book

Nonfic Food

A Sweet Taste of History: More than 100 Elegant Dessert Recipes from America's Earliest Days

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32 books

Nonfic Games

Dice Games Properly Explained
New Tactical Games With Dice And Cards
Play According to Hoyle: Hoyle's Rules of Games
The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games
Games
Logical chess move by move
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

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71 books

Nonfic His Indians

The Last War Trail: The Utes and the Settlement of Colorado
"The Utes Must Go!": American Expansion and the Removal of a People
War Cry on a Prayer Feather
The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
As If the Land Owned Us: An Ethnohistory of the White Mesa Utes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
The Nez Perce Indians And The Opening Of The Northwest

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66 books

Nonfic His Maritime

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
Two Years Before the Mast
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

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5 books

Nonfic His Scots

The Highland Clans
Scotland: The Story of a Nation
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment

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264 books

Nonfic His Us

The Johnstown Flood
Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
John Quincy Adams
Rights of Man
The Age of Reason
Reflections on the revolution in France

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114 books

Nonfic His World

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel
Reflections on the revolution in France
Alexander the Great
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
The Franks

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9 books

Nonfic Lit Language

Learn to Read Greek, Part I
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book 1
The Superior Person's Book of Words
The Once Used Words in Shakespeare: Read Before the Society April 22, 1886
The Trivium

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39 books

Nonfic Lit Study

The Rhetoric of Fiction
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?
The Second Common Reader
Tolkien On Fairystories
Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern Fiction

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144 books

Nonfic Nature

Wilderness and the American Mind
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game
Gifts of the Crow
The Arrogance of Humanism
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

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89 books

Nonfic Philosophy

On the Genealogy of Morals
Beyond Good and Evil
The Birth of Tragedy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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9 books

Nonfic Politics

Post-Truth
How Minds Change
Letter to Liberals
The Rights Of War And Peace: Three Volume Set
Discourses Concerning Government
Court Maxims
The Whole Duty of Man, According to the Law of Nature

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8 books

Nonfic Psychology

Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Man's Search for Meaning
The Bible as Dream: A Jungian Interpretation
The feeling of what happens
We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine

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14 books

Nonfic Reference

Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases, Usually Regarded as Peculiar To The United States
Dictionary of the Strange, Curious, and Lovely
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Shakespeare's words
Chambers Dictionary of Etymology
Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words: With Topical Index
The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations

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40 books

Nonfic Religion

How Jesus Became God
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes
Theology and the Problem of Evil
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them