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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)

By David W. Blight

$30.00

ISBN: 9781416590316

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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 16th, 2018

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A moving portrait of an extraordinary man, one who could have found his place in the pages of Plutarch. Amidst his “nation of inconsistencies, completely made up of inconsistencies,” Douglass' story endures through the work of a historian writing at the height of his powers.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback)

By Robert Burton, William H. Gass (Introduction by)

$29.95

ISBN: 9780940322660

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Published: NYRB Classics - April 30th, 2001

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John Keats’ favorite book – with admirers ranging from Samuel Johnson to Philip Pullman, Laurence Sterne to Samuel Beckett, Washington Irving to Jorge Luis Borges, George Custer to Nick Cave – infinite in its jest, encyclopedic in its scholarship, delightful in its relish for human contradiction and wholehearted in its compassion for our folly, here lies a book for your desert island. Sample a page from the “Mind Rectified by Mirth” (II.119). If you are not convinced, I will say no more. Lætitiae cœlum vos creavit. So live merrily, O my friends.

James