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The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
$21.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: The\Penguin American Library | Reading Level: good
One of the great classics on democracy, "Rights of Man" was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
$23.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin American Library | Reading Level: very good
Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has rem ...Show more
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
$9.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: American Library
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for sp ...Show more
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