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The Prince (Penguin Classics)
Category : Classics
Author : Niccolo Machiavelli, Anthony Grafton, George Bull
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0140449159
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Description : Wanna understand how those fuckers in Washington are thinking? This was the original textbook for every tyrant in history.
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This book added on : 31-Oct-2003 by IamSquid
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Wuthering Heights
Category : Classics
Author : Emily Bronte
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0553212583
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Description : Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempestuous and mythic story of Catherine Earnshaw, the precocious daughter of the house, and the ruggedly handsome, uncultured foundling her father brings home and names Heathcliff, is played out against the backdrop of English moors no less wild and raw than the love they develop for one another. Brought together as children, Catherine and Heathcliff quickly become attached to each other. As they grow older, their companionship turns into obsession. Family, class, and fate work cruelly against them, as do their own jealous and volatile natures, and much of their lives is spent in revenge and frustration. Yet there is something magnificent about the depth and intensity of their love. Even as you condemn Catherine and Heathcliff for the pain they inflict upon themselves and others, it is hard not to listen in awe when Catherine cries out "I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind; not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Monolycus
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Dune
Category : Classics
Author : Frank Herbert
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0441172717
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Description : The best selling science fiction book in history. Probably because it appeals to every type of person in some way. There are elements of this book that are just gother than fuck. If you've just seen the movie, you're totally missing out on how intricate and wicked this book really is. Even if you hate science fiction, you'll love this book.
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This book added on : 24-Oct-2002 by Devin
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1984
Category : Classics
Author : George Orwell
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0452262933
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Description : "Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Kira
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Category : Classics
Author : Erich Maria Remarque
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0449213943
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Description : This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It's no wonder why they call it "The best war novel ever written."
Every young male should read this. It will make you reconsider begging to join the military, and expose the true horrors of war and the cold price of ignorance and destruction. It showed me how precious we all are and how people, especially males, are treated as garbage. The comprehension of this book can prove that wrong.
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This book added on : 27-Mar-2003 by Sticupus
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Faust: A Tragedy
Category : Classics
Author : Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0393972828
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Description : If yoo don't know it, yoo must read it.
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This book added on : 01-Jan-2003 by IamSquid
Hits: 1802 Rating (details):
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