The Decameron Volume 2  |
| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) |
The Decameron is a collection of 100 very readable novellas finished in 1353. It is known for its bawdy tales that span the spectrum from erotic to tragic. The tales are told by a party of ten fleeing the black plague, on each of 10 days they each tell a tale on a particular theme. The stories remain compelling for the modern reader while providing a unique window into medieval life. |
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| The Decameron, Volume 1 |
| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) |
The Decameron is a collection of 100 very readable novellas finished in 1353. It is known for its bawdy tales that span the spectrum from erotic to tragic. The tales are told by a party of ten fleeing the black plague, on each of 10 days they each tell a tale on a particular theme. The stories remain compelling for the modern reader while providing a unique window into medieval life. |
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| The Dhammapada |
| F. Max Muller (1823 - 1900) |
The Dhammapada contains verses that are the answers to questions put to the Buddha himself. In these verses the Buddha illustrates the path to enlightenment, the liberation from suffering and ultimately the achievement of Nirvana which also ends the cycle of birth, old age, sickness, and death. |
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| The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) |
More Musketeering adventure! This time the musketeers are in conflict over the man in the iron mask who is thought to be King Louis XIV's twin brother, isolated as an infant and now held prisoner in the Bastille for the last 18 years. The throne of France is threatened as he escapes to seek revenge. Will The Three Musketeers manage to fight and save their country this time in their final saga? |
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| Barriers Burned Away |
| Edward Payson Roe (1838 - 1888) |
1872 Best Seller.
In his day E. P. Roe was a bigger seller than Mark Twain.
A story of the Chicago fire.
"We accord a hearty commendation to this work. The narrative is vigorous, often intense, but rarely if ever melodramatic.
Its language is usually no less chaste than forcible and impressive.
It betrays a power of invention and description which is not met with every day in the best of writers of popular fiction."
-- Dr. Ripley, in the New York Tribune (contemporary review)
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| Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush |
| Ian Maclaren (1850 - 1907) |
1895 Best Seller.
Sketches of rural Scottish life based on the authors experiences as a minister in Perthshire.
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| Beulah |
| Augusta Evans (1835 - 1909) |
1859 Best Seller.
The novel follows the orphaned Beulah from childhood in the Antebellum South through a troubled and stormy struggle for independence.
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