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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
June 6, 2003The 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.
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A Victorian Anthology, 18371895
May 1, 2003This encyclopedic collection of 1,274 works by 343 authors represents the full course of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria.
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The Worlds Famous Orations
April 22, 2003William Jennings Bryan included in 10 volumes 281 addresses by 213 rhetoricians to bring into focus two millennia of Western Civilization.
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The World Factbook: 2002
November 11, 2002The U.S. governments complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags, includes a full range of demographics by country: from literacy rates to military might.
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The Encyclopedia of World History
June 6, 2002Renowned historian Peter N. Stearnss comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.
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The World Factbook: 2001
October 16, 2001The U.S. governments complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags, includes a full range of demographics by country: from literacy rates to military might.
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The Columbia Gazetteer of North America
August 10, 2001With 50,000 entries, this most comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features will prove invaluable to anyone for whom places hold fascination and who require accurate data about them.
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The Columbia World of Quotations
July 25, 2001Columbias 65,000 expertly selected quotations from 5,000 authors combine with Bartletts and Simpsons Quotations to form the largest database of its kind ever assembled.
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An American Anthology, 17871900
July 9, 2001These 1,740 selections by 573 authors represent a century of poetic culture.
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George William Russell (A.E.)
June 21, 2001Selected and edited by the author, these 173 works epitomize the best of the Irish Renaissance poet.
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The Oxford Book of Ballads
June 17, 2001This anthology of 176 works ranges from the epic ballads of the Middle Ages to lyrics familiar to this day.
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Abraham Lincoln
May 28, 2001The legacy of the 16th President is represented by his great speeches, proclamations, classic commentary and commemorative poetry.
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Australasian Verse
March 18, 2001The national characters and natural beauty of Australia and New Zealand invigorate 205 poems by 80 authors spanning a century of publishing during the explosive growth of these nations.
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Irish Verse
March 14, 2001Bartleby.com celebrates St. Patricks Day with the release of Anthology of Irish Verse, whose 181 poems and songs were expertly chosen by the poet Padraic Colum, who categorized them around national themes.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia
February 1, 2001Bartleby.com relaunches the Sixth Edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia with a year-2001 update and improved search and navigation features, including a new categorical index of 17,000 biographies and a revised alphabetical index to over 51,000 entries.
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Bartlett
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Bartletts Familiar Quotations
December 29, 2000Bartleby.com reinvents for 2001 the Tenth Edition of Bartletts, which now features a new search of 11,000 quotations and footnotes, chronologic and alphabetic indexes by author, as well as a concordance that cross-references the quotations in over 52,000 entries.
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Donne
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The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
November 29, 2000From Donne and Traherne to Whitman and Yeats, this unique anthology spans 5 centuries with 390 selections by 162 authors; it joins Bartleby.coms six other classic verse anthologies, which now total 2,271 searchable poems.
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The World Factbook: 2000
November 10, 2000The U.S. governments complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations, includes country profiles that track such demographics as population and literacy rates, as well as political and economic data.
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Brooke
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Rupert Brooke
November 1, 2000These 82 ecstatic poemscomplemented by a short biography and commentaryform the heritage and chronicle of the handsome British youth whose writing was cut short in the Great War.
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Whitman
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Walt Whitman
October 23, 2000The Good Gray Poet also contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with his war diaries, Prefaces and Democratic Vistas in his complete Prose Works, the companion volume to Bartleby.coms Leaves of Grass.
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Roget
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Rogets International Thesaurus
October 12, 2000Peter Rogets classic structure coupled with Mawsons modernization becomes even more user-friendly on Bartleby.com, with over 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references and 2,900 illustrative quotations.
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Dickens
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Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
September 28, 2000From Dickens to Hawthorne and Tolstoy to Goethe, this 20-volume set comprises works by 30 authors from 7 national literatures and features biographical and critical introductions by the great thinkers of the time.
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American Heritage® Dictionary
September 14, 2000Featuring 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page illustrations and over 10,000 new words and senses, The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition is the most up-to-date multimedia reference work available on the web.
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English Usage
September 5, 2000Bartleby.com welcomes the 20002001 academic year with an English Usage collection that combines the best contemporary and well-known style and composition guides available.
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Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
August 23, 2000Bartleby.com premieres two biographies and two additional Roosevelt texts to expand this preeminent website of seven of his original texts, his Autobiography and a bibliography.
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Franklin
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Oxford Book of American Essays
August 10, 2000From Franklin and Emerson to Whitman and Roosevelt, Brander Matthews expertly selected 32 essays on topics literary, political and humorous spanning over a century of this forms development in America.
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Riis
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Jacob A. Riis
August 2, 2000How the Other Half Lives together with its sequel Battle with the Slum reveal through Riiss sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
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The Holy Bible
July 10, 2000The culmination of English translations of the Bible, the Bartleby.com publication of the American Bible Societys King James Version features a full-text search, content-based chapter guides and a quick verse finder.
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Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
June 27, 2000Stevensons range as an author includes the dreamlike poetry of A Childs Garden of Verse and Underwoods to the nightmare-inspired bogey tale of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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The Haunters and the Haunted
June 20, 2000Ernest Rhys chose 57 ghost stories from literary works, folklore and myth to create an anthology that is both textbook of the supernatural and storybook of the middle world of ghosts.
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Bartlett
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Bartletts Familiar Quotations
June 13, 2000The Bartleby.com expansion of Familiar Quotations with the tenth edition of 1919, which adds and revises some 300 authors, allows for full-text searching of over 11,000 quotations.
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Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
June 6, 2000The Bartleby.com edition of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson comprises 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst, whose life of the Imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry.
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Grays Anatomy
May 30, 2000The Bartleby.com edition of Henry Grays Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravingsmany in colorfrom the classic 20th edition of 1918, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
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Stein
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Gertrude Stein
May 22, 2000The icon and muse of the postWWI lost generation of Americans in Paris, Stein epitomizes the spirit of modern prose narrative in Three Lives and translates the art of the cubists into words with the prose poems of Tender Buttons.
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Reed
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John Reed
May 15, 2000Ten Days That Shook the World is the first-person chronicle of legendary journalist John Reed at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution, whence he delivers one of the great stories of the twentieth century.
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E. Cobham Brewer
May 8, 2000Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog words with a tale to tell.
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Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
May 1, 2000The Complete Works of William Shakespeare constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization. The debut of the Bartleby.com Oxford Shakespeare combines its 37 plays and 177 poems with over 1500 Shakespeare quotations selected personally by John Bartlett and literary history and criticism by George Saintsbury and T.S. Eliot.
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Einstein
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Albert Einstein
April 24, 2000The physicist and humanitarian took his place beside the great teachers with the publication of Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Einsteins own popular translation of the physics that shaped our truths of space and time. With expert use of Socratic question and answer, readily accessible analogies to everyday life, and a clear and witty prose style, Professor Einstein gives his readers a few happy hours of suggestive thought.
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Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
April 17, 2000H.L. Mencken devoted his life to an inquiry of the American Language, on which he worked for 30 years. The anthropologist Edward Sapir furthered this descriptive study of words with Language, in which he compared the speech of many cultures. Complementing these classics in the Bartleby.com Language, Style & Composition collection are Sir Arthur Quiller-Couchs proscriptive lectures On the Art of Reading and Writing, as well as the style guides of Strunk, Fowler and the editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
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Jove
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Myth: Frazer & Bulfinch
April 10, 2000From Thomas Bulfinchs description and retelling of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Indian, British and Norse mythology in the Age of Fable to the scholarship of Sir James Frazers the Golden Bough, which established comparative mythology as an academic disciplineexperience first-hand the inspiration of the symbol and theory that formed a powerful influence on world literature and the foundation of our modern sensibility.
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Poe
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The Short-Story
April 3, 2000Edgar Allen Poes Fall of the House of Usher is one of twenty-three classics selected by Columbia Professor of Dramatic Literature Brander Matthews for his anthology The Short-Story. Spanning the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century and ranging across Europe and America, Matthews has created a guided tour of the slow evolution of this literary species through the long centuries of advancing civilization.
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Wells
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H.G. Wells
March 27, 2000Over a century ago H.G. Wells created with his early scientific romances the new genre of science fiction. While still best remembered for The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, Wells also paved the way for the modern popular history with his postWorld War I A Short History of the World. This highly illustrated history to be read as a novel was the first to be based on the new fields of evolution, anthropology and sociology.
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Frost
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Robert Frost
March 20, 2000Although his work is rooted in the New England landscape, Frosts work exceeded regional boundaries. The careful local observations and homely details of his poems often have deep symbolic, even metaphysical, significance. His poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens.
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