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The Idea Without the 400-Page Headache

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

The library

9,386 philosophy & ideas

De Libris: Prose and Verse

Austin Dobson · poetry

The story in one page

A man loses his freedom and name, only to decide that suffering is just a long, singular moment.

Oscar Wilde · ideas

De Tribus Impostoribus, A. D. 1230: The Three Impostors

Samuel Briggs · reference

Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America

Jane M. Bancroft · ideas

Maurice Baring · novel

Dead Men Tell Tales

Harry Rimmer · collection

Dealings with the Dead, Volume 1 (of 2)

Lucius M. Sargent · ideas

Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)

Lucius M. Sargent · ideas

Maurice Maeterlinck · ideas

Death and resurrection from the point of view of the cell-theory

Gustaf Björklund · science

Death disarmed of its sting

Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater · biography

Death—and After?

Annie Besant · ideas

Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell

Margaret Sanger · ideas

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,

Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of Appreciations

Eugene V. Debs · biography

Arthur James Balfour · ideas

Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas

Remy de Gourmont · ideas

Deductive Logic

St. George William Joseph Stock · ideas

Deep Waters; Or, A Strange Story

R. H. Crozier · novel

Defenders of Democracy

Militia of Mercy . Gift Book Committee · ideas

Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 1 of 2)

B. H. Roberts · ideas

Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 2 of 2)

B. H. Roberts · ideas

Defenseless America

Hudson Maxim · ideas

Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy

Thomas Cool · ideas

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]

Henry Seidel Canby · novel

Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from His Works

James Thomson Callender · ideas

Delusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva

Sigmund Freud · novel

The story in one page

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

A school is a miniature community, but most are just waiting rooms for adulthood.

John Dewey · ideas

Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams · ideas

Democracy in America — Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville · history

Democracy in America — Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville · ideas

Democracy in France. January 1849

François Guizot · ideas

Democritus Platonissans

Henry More · poetry

Demonology and Devil-lore

Moncure Daniel Conway · myth

Deportation, its meaning and menace

Alexander Berkman · biography

Description of a journey and visit to the Pawnee Indians

Gottlieb F. Oehler · travel

Despotism and Democracy: A Study in Washington Society and Politics

Molly Elliot Seawell · novel

Desultory thoughts and reflections

Marguerite Countess of Blessington · ideas

Determinism or Free-Will?

Chapman Cohen · ideas

Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible

Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Theory

Duncan Black MacDonald · ideas

Isya -1923 Joseph · science

Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer

Arthur Edward Waite · ideas

Devotional Poetry for the Children. Second Part

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

John Donne · ideas

The story in one page

Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists

How to stop your brain from running around like a monkey in a fruit forest.

F. Max Müller · poetry

Anthony Hope · ideas

Dialogue between John and Thomas, on the Corn Laws, the Charter, Teetotalism, and the Probable Remedy for the Present Disstresses