The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville
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Category: Classics
A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705". The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the f ...Show more
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
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Category: Classics
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Complete 34 Chapters Sir John Mandeville is the supposed author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a travel memoir which first circulated between 1357 and 1371. The earliest surviving text is in French. 'FOR as much as the land beyond the sea, that is to say the Ho ...Show more
The Vinland Sagas - The Norse Discovery: Graenlendinga Saga & Erik's Saga by M. Magnusson
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Category: Classics
Both a record of a fascinating bit of history, and a rich and exciting piece of literature. The two medieval lcelandic sagas translated in this volume tell one of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration ? the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus ...Show more
King Arthur's Last Battle by Sir Thomas Malory
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Category: Classics
He was born to be King. But he would die for his people . . . From the moment he draws the sword Excalibur from a magic stone, King Arthur is hailed as the saviour of England. With his loyal band of brothers, the Knights of the Round Table, he reigns over a golden age of chivalry and enchantment. Bu ...Show more
Le Morte D'arthur Volume 2 by Thomas Malory
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Volume two of "Le Morte D'Arthur", Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegiac version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties, and his great, forbidden l ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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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 Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise "The Prince" made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, "The Discourses" (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics.In ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli - Peter Constantine (Translator)
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Category: Classics
" It is far safer to be feared than loved Machiavelli made his name notorious for centuries with The Prince, his clever and cynical work about power relationships.The key themes of this influential, and ever timely, writer are that adaptability is the key to success and that effective leadership is some ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
"The Prince" shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded as some by an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy. For his ...Show more
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The acclaimed new translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death ...Show more
Sensation and Sex by Titus Lucretius Carus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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 t ...Show more