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The Harvard Classics ® a Registered Trademark of the President and
Fellows of Harvard College.
Classics Illustrated ® is a Registered Trademark of the Frawley
Corporation
All-American DVD -- 2991 books: Literature and History, for just $89. It combines the contents of 19 book-collection CDs. The main collections are American Literature 1740 book sand US History 657 books. The other collections consist of some of those same books organized in different ways, to create interesting and usefulcontexts (American Revolution, Civil War, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Papers of the Presidents, California, Southwest, West, Old New York, Old New England, Black Americans, Slave Narratives, Native Americans, and Brook Farm).
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The Period Book DVD -- 2565 books for just $69. This DVD includes all the plain-text books from our six Period Collection CDs. Sold separately, those CDs would cost $95. . Click on the links below to view the full contents of the CDs included:
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The Harvard Classics ® a Registered Trademark of the President and
Fellows of Harvard College.
Classics Illustrated ® is a Registered Trademark of the Frawley
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Books
from the Harvard Classics ® Collection is
based on the table of contents of the Harvard Classics ® set of books
AKA Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf (a 51-volume collection of great works)
first published in 1909 plus the Harvard Classics ® Shelf of Fiction
(a separate 20-volume collection) first published in 1917. Both those
collections were edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot
(1834-1926). This CD contains electronic versions of the great majority,
but not all of the works selected by Dr. Eliot. Books originally
written in languages other than English appear here in English translation,
but often not the same translations as the original. The Table of
Contents shows the organization by volume of the original Harvard Classics
® collection. The folders/directories are organized by author.
All these books are in plain text format. Table
of Contents
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Books
Behind the Classics Illustrated ® Comics. Back in
the 1950s I was an avid reader and collector of Classics Illustrated ®
comic books. I bought every one I could find in stores, got a monthly subscription,
and ordered everything else from the publisher as back issues. And I revered
the original books honored by inclusion -- those were the true "classics";
and went out of my way to buy them and read them. About ten years ago,
when I realized that the paper was deteriorating and that the comics would
all turn to dust before my grandchildren could enjoy them, I sold the collection
through Ebay. Now it finally occurred to me that all but 26 of the original
168 classics are now in the public domain and available in electronic form.
Here I have assembled all those onto a single CD. (® Registered Trademark
of the Frawley Corporation.)
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Books
of the Western Canon: Great Books by Essential Authors is based
on the lists of "great books and essential authors" in the appendixes of
"The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom. Here we provide the full-text of many
of the books he recommends, from the Theocratic, Aristocratic, and Democratic
Ages (from the dawn of civilization up through the end of World War I),
organized the way he presents them: 797 books by 204 authors. Many of these
books would be very hard to find and very costly in printed form. Complete
table of Contents
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This
Classical
Music Book CD includes over 160 libretti of operas and
operettas, and lyrics of hundreds of lieder/songs in their original languages,
plus 116 books about classical music, biographies of composers, and composer
correspondence all in English. Complete
table of contents
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What do Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Edith Wharton,
Walt Whitman, and Zane have in common? Their works are all on the same
American
Literature 2-CD set, with 2429 books by 680 authors.. Complete
table of contents
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What do Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, John Milton, William Shakespeare,
Daniel Defoe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Joseph Conrad have in common? Their
works are all on the same British
Literature 3-CD set, with 3301 books. Complete
table of contents
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What do Louisa Mae Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Frank
Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Eleanor Porter have in common? Their works
are on the same Children's
Book CD, with 1856 classic children's books. Complete
table of contents
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What do Plutarch, Gibbon, Proudhon, Malthus, Houdini, Frazier, Jefferson,
Darwin, Veblen, Dewey, and Plato have in common? Their works are
all on the same Non-Fiction
4-CD set with 3590 books. Complete
table of contents
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What do William James, Mohammed, Josephus, Moses, Martin Luther, Confucius,
Mary Baker Eddy, and John Bunyan have in common? They are all on the sameReligion
and the Occult CD with 879 books, in plain text, including
many Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Zoroastrian texts,
in addition to a large collection of Christian books. Some of these
books, like the Kabbalah, happen to be primary sources for medieval lore
on demons, magic and witchcraft.Complete
table of contents
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What do Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Machiavelli, Tasso, Luther,
Ibsen, and Goethe have in common? They are all on the same World
Literature 2-CDset with 2713 books (some in the original language,
some in English, and some in both).
Complete table of
contents for World Literature.
Table of contents
for English-only version.
Review in
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Cold War Context
and Aftermath contains the full text of 28 "Country Studies"
published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress between
1987 and 1996, including the Soviet Union and the countries it spawned,
and Communist countries of Europe and Communist countries of Asia.
In addition, it contains: Books and articles about the Cold War published
by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), the CIA World Factbook, an interlinked set of hundreds of
HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information on every
country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and an enormous collection
of books related to Communist countries and the historical, political,
and cultural context of the Cold War phenomenon: Russian, German, and Chinese
History; Documents of US History Related to the Cold War; NATO Documents;
UN Documents; and 425 classic works of philosophy, economics, political
science, sociology and literature. Complete
Table of Contents
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Spain/Portugal/Latin
America: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Domican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela. Historical
backgroudn and context for understanding today's news. This CD contains
the full text of 21 "
"Country Studies" published by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress. Each country study is presented as a single document,
in plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search (rather than
as a collection of over 100 separate documents for each book). In addition,
we include: The CIA World Factbook, an interlinked set of hundreds
of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information on every
country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and 126 classic books
of literature, history, science, and religion related to the region (even
a cook book). Complete
table of contents
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South Asia
includes Afghanistan, Bengladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia,
Laos, Myanamar (Burma), Nepal, Paksitan, Singapore, Sri Landka (Ceylon),
Thailand, and Vietnam. This CD includes 209 classic works of fiction, history
and religion, plus 3 country studies and the CIA World Factbook. The vast
majority of the works relate to India. Complete
Table of Contents
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Russian:
Literature and History (AKA -- Countries of the former Soviet
Union), with 125 books includes all the great classics (like War and Peace)
in English translation. Complete Table of
Contents
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The
Middle East -- Context for Conflict: Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria,
Cyprus, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf
States. Historical background and context for understanding today's news.
This
CD contains the full text of 11 "Country Studies" published by the Federal
Research Division of the Library of Congress. Each country study is presented
as a single document, in plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and
to search (rather than as a collection of over 100 separate documents for
each book). The tables in the appendix of each book are presented as html
documents. In addition, we include: The CIA World Factbook, an interlinked
set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information
on every country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and 95 of
classic works of history, literature, and religion, including The Koran
and books on the traditions of Judaism, all in plain text form. Complete
table of contents Free sample: Iraq,
a Country Study.
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Africa on
CD: Algeria, Angola, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory
Coast, Libya, Madagascar, Mauriania, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan,
Uganda, and Zaire. Historical background and context for understanding
today's news. This CD contains the full text of 16 "Country Studies
published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
Each country study is presented as a single document, in plain text form
-- easy to read, to print, and to search (rather than as a collection of
over 100 separate documents for each book). The tables in the appendix
of each book are presented as html documents. In addition, we include:
The CIA World Factbook, an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents,
with detailed up-to-date reference information on every country in the
world, with images of maps and flags; and some classic books about the
region (primarily books about European exploration of Africa); and 130
other classic books about Africa. Complete
table of contents Free sample: Ethiopia,
a Country Study.
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World Referencecontains
92 Library of Congress Country Studies, plus CIA World Factbook and important
documents of the United Nations.
Complete
Table of Contents
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What's likely to happen next in the War on Terrorism or in the Balkans?
What issues matter most in Europe or Africa? Your
World on CD provides background texts that can help you understand
the implications of current events, including 3371 documents from the UN
and 1286 from NATO. Complete
table of contents
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The China
CD contains 67 classic works of fiction, history, and religion,
plus two country studies. Complete
Table of Contents
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From Dante, Ariosto and Boccaccio to Casanova, Cellini, Machiavelli,
and Tasso; from Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil to Apuleius and Marcus
Arelius; this Italian
and Roman CD, Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent
Macs (OS 10), contains the full text of 191 books -- literature and history
from and about Italy and Rome, sometimes in the original Italian and Latin,
and sometimes in English translation. These books are in plain-text format,
organized for easy access. For context, it also includes the CIA World
Factbook. Complete table
of contents
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From Goethe and Schiller to Kant and Hegel, from the 30 Years War to
Friedrich II, this German
CD, contains the full text of 385 books -- history, philosophy,
and fiction in English and/or German. For context it now also includes
the CIA World Factbook, and Library of Congress country studies of Germany
(1995) and East Germany (1987) Complete
table of contents.
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The
French
CD with 801 classic books of French history, philosophy, and
literature includes Balzac, Dumas, Zola, Verne, Flaubert, Rousseau, Gaboriau,
Hugo, Stendhal, and Voltaire. For context it now also includes the CIA
World Factbook. Complete
table of contents.
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The
Canadian Literature and History CD contains the full text of
347 books about Canada and/or by Canadians, in plain text. For context
it also includes the 2005 CIA World Factbook. Complete
table of contents
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The
Australian Literature and History CD contains the full text
of 136 books about Australia and/or by Australians, in plain text, with
software that lets you listen as well as read. For context, it now also
includes the CIA World Factbook. Complete
table of contents
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Large Print Reviews
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The
Philippine
CD contains the full text of 64 books about the Philippines
and/or by Filipinos. In addition to works of history, literature, and anthropology,
it includes the CIA World Factbook and the Library of Congress Country
Study of the Philippines. Most of the books are in English. A few are in
Spanish or Tagalog. Complete
table of contents
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Portuguese:
Literature and History, with 48 books, consists mainly of literature
in the Portuguese language, with a few books in English translation. Complete
Table of Contents
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The Irish
CD
contains the full text of 176 books, both history and literature.
The literature includes ancient tales plus such authors as Oliver Goldsmith,
Lady Gregory, Le Fanu, George Moore, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Synge,
and Oscar Wilde.
Complete
table of contents.
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The Scottish
CD contains the full text of 332 books, covering history, literature,
religion, philosophy, and science. The literature includes periodicals
(The Edinburgh Review and the Chambers Edinburgh Review) and such authors
as Boswell, Burns, Carlyle, De Quincey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lang, Saki,
Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Complete
Table of Contents
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Wales,
with 24 books, includes books originally written in English (such as the
works of Matthew Arnold), Welsh literature in English translation,
literature in Welsh, and history. Complete
Table of Contents
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The Brownings
includes
21 books by and about Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Table
of Contents
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Works of Alexandre
Dumas, both father and son, 78 books (33 in English translation
and 45 in French), including the complete Three Musketeers saga. Table
of Contents
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English
Romantic Poets,with 60 books, includes books by and about Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron. Table
of Contents
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The 206 books on Emerson's
Representative Men include Emerson's biographical essays
"Representataive Men", plus other works by Emerson, plus works by and about
the individuals he focuses on: Plato, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Swedenborg,
Goethe, and Napoleon.
Table
of Contents Review
in Large Print Reviews
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This Annie
and James Fields CD, with 172 books, includes "Authors and
Friends" by Annie Fields and "Yesterdays with Authors" by her husband,
the publisher James Fields, as well as works by the authors discussed in
those books. That means the works of: Longfellow, Emerson, Oliver Wendell
Holmes Sr., Harriet Beecher Stowe, Whittier, Tennyson, Thackeray, Hawthorne,
Dickens, Wordsworth, Miss Mitford, and Barry Cornwall. Table
of Contents Review
in Large Print Reviews
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Goethe,
Schiller and Their Contemporaries, includes works by Brentano,
Buchner, Kleist, Lessing Lenz, Hoffman, and Wieland, many in German, and
many in English translation -- 147 books..Complete
Table of Contents
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45 books by, about or edited by Nathaniel
Hawthorne and his son Julian, including The Scarlet Letter
and The House of the Seven Gables. Complete
Table of Contents
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31 books by Samuel
Johnson and James Boswell, including Boswell's Life of Johnson,
Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Complete
Table of Contents
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32 books by and about Henry
James and 6 by his brother William (the psychologist/philosopher).
Complete
Table of Contents
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From A Midsummer Night's Dream to Henry IV to Hamlet to The Tempest,
this CD contains the complete works of William
Shakespeare, plus his contemporaries, his sources and translations
to French and German, as well as books about htim -- a total of 138 books
and plays. Complete
Table of Contents
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The Shelley
Clan contains 27 books by and about William Godwin, his wife
Mary Wollstonecraft, their daughter Mary Shelley, and her husband Percy
Bysshe Shelley. Table
of Contents
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24 historical novels by Joseph
Altsheler: Free Rangers, The Guns of Bull Run, The Guns of
Shiloh, The Rock of Chickamauga, Masters of the Peaks, The Scouts of Stonewall,
Scouts of the Valley, The Star of Gettyburg, and The Sword of Antietam
Table
of Contents
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Books
by "Victor Appleton", the pseudonymn used by the authors of
the Tom Swift series. This CD contains the first 25 books of the Tom Swift
series, the only ones published in the US before 1923, and hence clearly
in the public domain, plus 2 books of the Moving Picture Boys series, also
attributed to "Appleton". Table
of Contents
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Eight books by Jane
Austen, including Emma, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship, Mansfield
Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and
Sensibility. Complete Table
of Contents
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From Cousin Bette to Eugenie Grandet to Pere Goriot to Droll Stories,
this CD contains the complete text of 105 books by and about Honore
de Balzac, in English translation. Complete
Table of Contents
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All of Frank
Baum's 14 Oz books, plus 18 other children's books of his.
Complete
Table of Contents
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14 books by Ambrose
Bierce, including the two-volume collected works. Complete
Table of Contents
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64 books by and about John
Bunyan, 17th century Christian writer and preacher (author of The
Pilgrim's Progress). Table
of Contents
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Edmund Burke,
including his complete 12 volume "works". Table
of Contents
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Edgar
Rice Burroughs -- 21 books published in the US before 1923,
and hence in the public domain, including eight Tarzan and five Mars books.
Table
of Contents
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18 children's books by Frances
Hodgson Burnett, including The Secret Garden, A Little Princess,
and Sara Crewe. Complete
Table of Contents
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36 books by Thomas
Carlyle, including The French Revolution, The History of Friedrich
II, Correspondence with Emerson, and Sartor Resartus. Complete
Table of Contents
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19 books by Anton
Chekhov, including his plays and short stories, all in English
translation. Complete
Table of Contents
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34 books by G.K.
Chesterton, which just came into the public domain on Jan.
1, 2006. Complete Table
of Contents
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24 complete books by Wilkie
Collins, including The Woman in White and The Moonstone. Complete
Table of Contents
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33 books by Joseph
Conrad, including Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Heart of Darkness,
and The Secret Sharer. Complete
Table of Contents
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The 34 books on this James
Fenimore Cooper CD include The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer,
The Pathfinder, The Pilot, The Prairie, and The Pioneers. Complete
Table of Contents
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Works of Charles
Darwin, 16 books by Darwin (including the first and sixth editions
of The Origin of the Species) and 7 books about him (including 4 volumes
of his letters). Table
of Contents
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17 books by Daniel
Defoe, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Journal
of the Plague Year. Complete
Table of Contents
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From Great Expectations to Tale of Two Cities, from Oliver Twist to
David Copperfield to Bleak House, this CD contains 53 books by and about
Charles
Dickens.
Complete
Table of Contents
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16 books by Benjamin Disraeli
and
three by his father Isaac Disraeli. In addition to being a popular novelist,
Benjamin Disraelli served in government for four decades, twice as prime
minister (in fierce competition with Gladstone). For his service,
he was given the title "Earl of Beaconsfield." Table
of Contents
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From Sherlock Holmes to the Lost World, this CD contains 38 books by
Arthur
Conan Doyle.
Table of Contents
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Twelve books by George
Eliot, including Adam Bede, Brother Jacob, Daniel Deronda,
The Lifted Veil, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.
Table
of Contents
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10 books by Gustave
Flaubert, including Madame Bovary (in French and English).
Table
of Contents
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