This sweeping adventure, written by Alexandre Dumas, is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature. It tells the story of D'Artagnan and his three musketeer comrades, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together, the four of them work against the odds to stop Cardinal Richelieu's plan to sabotage the king and strengthen his own power. One hundred and fifty years its initial publication, The Three Musketeers remains a popular story and has been adapted for several films...

W. E. B. DuBois describes what life was like for African-Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century in this collection of fourteen essays published in 1903. His own experiences with racism and poverty formed the foundation of his lifelong struggle for equality. He urged African-Americans to work together and helped to establish the NAACP in 1909. With accurate foresight, Du Bois predicted that race would be one of the core issues of the twentieth century. ..

George Eliot was one of the foremost English novelists of the eighteenth century and her works are known for their realistic depiction of English country and village life. The Mill on the Floss takes place in the small village of St. Oggs where the free-spirited Maggie Tulliver lives with her family. Maggie's intelligence and rebellious nature eventually leads to her being ostracized by her family and the society of St. Ogg. ..

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time, won the Nobel Prize for his work in physics in 1921. One hundred years ago, in 1905, he published his work on relativity. The theory of Special Relativity describes the motion of particles moving at the speed of light. His General Theory of Relativity describes the effects of gravity...

Middlemarch is set in a provincial English town in the 1830s. Eliot built the novel on multiple plot lines and focuses on the complex social and political issues of marriage and human relationships. Middlemarch secured Eliot's reputation and is considered one of the greatest works of Victorian fiction...

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All for Love is John Dryden's 1678 adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. In his version of the story, Dryden focuses on the last hours in the lives of the two lovers. It is Dryden's most performed and best-known play. Dryden was named Poet Laureate in 1668...

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Reflections on the French Revolution was written by Edmund Burke in 1790 as a call to European leaders to resist the new French regime. In his analysis of the French Revolution, he refutes the claim that the demands of the revolutionaries were similar to those of the English in 1688. He also discusses the false principles of the revolution, including rationalism, disrespect for private property, egalitarianism, and atheism. His defense of traditional political cultures established him as one of the framers of European conservative thought. Reflections has remained in print since its initial publication in 1790. ..

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This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

The Manifesto of the Communist Party is one the most famous political works of the nineteenth century and provides the primary political and economic doctrine of communism. Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles in 1848 to create a political program for the European working-class movement, it postulated that history is composed of class struggles and that the industrial proletariat would eventually overthrow capitalism and establish in its place a classless society. The Manifesto inspired many revolutionary movements around the world and profoundly affected politics in the twentieth century...

This comprehensive collection of Emerson's work includes the famous essays "Self-Reliance" (Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist), "Compensation", "The Poet", and his study of the English national character, English Traits, which earned him much admiration in England. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a philosopher and poet who developed the concept of New England Transcendentalism, a form of mystic idealism that promoted self-reliance, the progress of the spirit, and simple living...

Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher in second-century Greece who focused on the importance of self-reliance and the ability of people to overcome difficult circumstances. He argued that people are not responsible for the ideas that are presented to them, but that they are entirely responsible for how they react to those ideas. ..

Several writings cover the life and death of the Buddha, the doctrine of Buddhism, and the ordination rite of Buddhist monks in Ceylon...