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The Poverty of Philosophy
Karl Marx
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• Author(s): Karl Marx • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy“…they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.”...
View full detailsThe Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952...
View full detailsHeidi
Johanna Spyri
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• Author(s): Johanna Spyri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksJohanna Spyri's Heidi, a beloved classic of children's literature, unfolds in the breathtaking Swiss Alps, where a young orphan named Heidi is ...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of...
View full detailsTen Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe task of the economist is not to predict the future but to explain the present. Ten Great Economists, originally published in 191...
View full detailsMetamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Greg...
View full detailsSiddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.” Siddhartha is a profou...
View full detailsAnnihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
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• Author(s): B.R. Ambedkar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyAnnihilation of Caste is a powerful and uncompromising critique of India's caste system, written by one of the most influential soc...
View full detailsGulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It c...
View full detailsThe Best Short Stories
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRudyard Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”;...
View full detailsAnimal Farm
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAnimal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, bei...
View full detailsThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
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• Author(s): Jacob Grimm | Wilhelm Grimm • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksFirst published in 1812 as Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Grimm’s Fairy Tales—inspired by German folklore—remain among the most cherish...
View full detailsThe Time Machine
H.G. Wells
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• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, ca...
View full detailsThe Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intell...
View full detailsPolitics
Aristotle
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• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyPolitics by Aristotle is a cornerstone of political philosophy, unfolding in dialogues and reflections on the nature of the state, citizen...
View full detailsThe Upanishads
Swami Paramananda
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• Author(s): Swami Paramananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophySwami Paramananda's The Upanishads explores ancient Indian spiritual texts, revealing wisdom that has influenced philosophical tho...
View full detailsMacbeth
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...
View full detailsThe Travels Of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
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• Author(s): Marco Polo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMarco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book whic...
View full detailsThe Merchant Of Venice
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Merchant of Venice is a 16th century play written by Shakespeare between 1596-1598 in which a merchant in Venice must default on ...
View full detailsHamlet
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It...
View full detailsTreasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
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• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTreasure Island, a wonderfully crafted edition of Stevenson’s classic adventure story, is known for its great plot, immortal chara...
View full detailsAround The World In Eighty Days
Jules Verne
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• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of mod...
View full detailsTo The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVirginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered ...
View full detailsThe Prince
Nicolo Machiavelli
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• Author(s): Nicolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefu...
View full detailsPride And Prejudice
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where,...
View full detailsNationalism
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” ...
View full detailsThe Republic (Peacock Books)
Plato
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• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePLATO, born around 428 BC in Athens, was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens, the firs...
View full detailsThe Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
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• Author(s): George S. Clason • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.” The Richest Man in Babylon, a timeless classic in personal finance, offers practical wi...
View full detailsThe Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin
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• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the ...
View full detailsOthello
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's most ...
View full detailsStory Of A Young Lawyer
Panchajanya Batra Singh
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• Author(s): Panchajanya Batra Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionNewly married Tara struggles through the formative years of advocacy, attempting to balance her roller coaster professiona...
View full detailsThe Railway Children
E. Nesbit
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• Author(s): E. Nesbit • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.” Edith Nesbit's The Railway Childre...
View full detailsPygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre person...
View full detailsThe Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
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• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyPublished in 1759, The Theory of Moral Sentiments provides a philosophical framework for Adam Smith's later works, including The Wealth o...
View full detailsThe Little Prince
Antoine De Saint- Exupery
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• Author(s): Antoine De Saint- Exupery • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, a beloved fable of childhood wonder and wisdom, invites readers on a journey thro...
View full detailsA Dictionary of Modern English Usage
H.W. Fowler
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• Author(s): H.W. Fowler • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia & AtlasA Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a guide to the rules of good written British English including British E...
View full detailsThree Men In A Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
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• Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThree Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to O...
View full detailsA Tale Of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims ...
View full detailsThe Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana
Translated by Sir Richard Burton
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• Author(s): Translated by Sir Richard Burton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana, is widely considered to be the standard work on huma...
View full detailsIndia: What Can it Teach Us?
Friedrich Max Muller
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• Author(s): Friedrich Max Muller • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIndia: What can it Teach Us? is a captivating compilation of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a distinguished schola...
View full detailsThe Waves
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of na...
View full detailsHard Times
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable ...
View full detailsThe Prophecies of Nostradamus
Nostradamus
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• Author(s): Nostradamus • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Prophecies of Nostradamus, first published in 1555, is a captivating collection of cryptic predictions that has fascinated readers f...
View full detailsCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Joseph A. Schumpeter
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• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter | Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist ...
View full detailsPeter Pan
J.M. Barrie
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• Author(s): J.M. Barrie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksPeter Pan, a timeless work of fantasy, unfolds in the magical world of Neverland, where Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, leads a group of...
View full detailsThe Inferno
Dante Alighieri
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• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDante Alighieri's The Inferno is the first part of his epic Divine Comedy, which takes readers on a journey through Hell. Guided by the R...
View full detailsThe Professor
Charlotte Bronte
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• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBefore Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a cla...
View full detailsThe Odyssey
Homer
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• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.”...
View full detailsThe Importance Of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social...
View full detailsRelativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein
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• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Relativity as a concept was not new to physi...
View full detailsThe Pursuit of Happiness
Daniel G. Brinton
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• Author(s): Daniel G. Brinton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Education & Psychology“Half of happiness is the recognition that we are happy; and half of misery is the forgetting how many causes of happiness we h...
View full detailsThe Best Of Saki
Saki (H.H. Munro)
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• Author(s): Saki (H.H. Munro) • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe book contains the best short stories written by Hector Hugh Munro under his pen name, Saki. "Reginald" was written after he had giv...
View full detailsJulius Caesar
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on t...
View full detailsAntony And Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1...
View full detailsThe Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
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• Author(s): Omar Khayyam • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title given by Edward FitzGerald to his translation of a selection of quatrains, originally written in Persi...
View full detailsShakuntala
Kalidasa
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• Author(s): Kalidasa • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“A bee may be born in a hole in a tree, but she likes the honey of the lotus.” Shakuntala, a timeless masterpiece by the ancient Indian poet Kal...
View full detailsAlice'S Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
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• Author(s): Lewis Carroll • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dr...
View full detailsA Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.” A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the...
View full detailsThe War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
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• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureH.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a groundbreaking science fiction novel that depicts humanity's struggle against a devastating alien invas...
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