Pausanias Guide to Greece - Volume 2: Southern Greece by Pausanias; Peter Levi (Introduction by, Translator); John Newberry (Illustrator); Jeffery Lacey (Illustrator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. ...Show more
Pausanias - Guide to Greece Volume 1 Central Greece & Volume 2 Southern Greece by Pausanias
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveler for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' "Guide to Greece" is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings, traditions and myth, it describes with precision and eloquence the glory of classical Greece shortly bef ...Show more
Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in "Human Happiness" are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life - or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have ...Show more
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney by Hermann Palsson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, it tells of an era when the islands were still part of the Viking world, beginning with their conques ...Show more
The Book of Chuang Tzu by Chuang Tzu
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Category: Classics
"The Book of Chuang Tzu" draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure of Chuang Tzu. One of the great founders of Taoism, Chaung Tzu lived in the fourth century BC and is among the most enjoyable and intriguing personalities in the whole of Chinese philosop ...Show more
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
The Serpent's Teeth by Ovid
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Category: Classics
In a world of gods and monsters, nothing is as it seems. When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfill his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chai ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
$23.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.