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"Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. The Problems of Philosophy, one of the most popular works in Russell's prolific collection of writings, has become core reading in philosophy. Clear and accessible, this little book is an intelligible and stimulating guide to those problems of philosophy which often mistakenly make the subject seem too lofty...
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A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England's greatest minds Dishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that defined the Victorian age in English literature. "Her imagination was sometimes superhuman - always inhuman," he writes of Emily Brontë. "Wuthering Heights might have been written by an eagle." Ranging from sharp denunciation to genuine admiration, Chesterton...
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Samuel Johnson is famously known for single-handedly creating the first recognized dictionary of the English language, just one of many his many renowned accomplishments. The biography of this remarkable writer, dramatist, poet, and moralist was penned by his friend, James Boswell, in 1791. An immediate success upon its publication, this work has come to be considered the greatest biography produced in the English language, and has earned Boswell...
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Oxford paperbacks ; 200
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Oxford University Press
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1970.
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English
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Oxford paperbacks ; 99
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Oxford University Press
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1965.
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English
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Oxford paperbacks ; 251
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Oxford University Press
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1971.
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English
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Oxford paperbacks ; no. 18
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Oxford University Press
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[1961]
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English
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Oxford paperbacks ; 66
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Oxford University Press
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[1963]
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English
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Oxford paperbacks ; 266
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Oxford University Press
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1938.
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English
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