The Greater Inclination was the earliest collection of short fiction from Edith Wharton. It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on the 25th of March, 1899. The first edition printing of 1,250 sold out by June of the same year. The collection...
The Hard Problem is a play by British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, first produced in 2015. The title refers to the hard problem of consciousness, which Stoppard defines as having "subjective First Person experiences"; he notes the strangeness in the...
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‘The History of Iowa: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the 20th Century’ (in four volumes), by Benjamin F. Gue
This is a seminal historical study providing a comprehensive account of the development of the state of Iowa from...
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The book *The History of Virginia* is a comprehensive historical study of the development of the state of Virginia, from the period of the first English colonies to the later stages of its political, economic and cultural formation. The...
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In this tantalizing SF thriller, planet-hopping parasites are inserting their silvery centipede selves into human brains, curing cancer, eliminating war and turning Earth into paradise. But some people want Earth back,...