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Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
Daisy Miller and an International Episode by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva and Rome, ...Show more
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca .
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full range of his phil ...Show more
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Christopher (INT) Robin (TRN); Gill Epictetus; Hard
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Elective Affinities: A Novel by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious volition all four are drawn into relationships a ...Show more
Esther Waters by George Moore
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.' Esther Waters is a young, working-class woman with strong religious beliefs who takes a position as a kitchen-maid at a horse-racing estate. She is seduced and abandoned, and forced to support herself and her illegitimate child in any way that she can ...Show more
Evelina by Frances Burney; Vivien Jones (Introduction by); Edward A. Bloom (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, the title character leaves her isolated country home for vibrant London society. As she stumbles through the city, she encounters many people including the handsome, Lord Orville. Evelina is a young woman who's spent her entire childh ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings (Including the Autobiographies) by Charles Darwin & James A. Secord (ed.)
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Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Jou ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings: Including the Autobiographies by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together ...Show more
Fathers & Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: good
The controversial portrait of Bazarov, the energetic, cynical, and self-assured 'nihilist' who repudiates the romanticism of his elders, shook Russian society. Indeed the image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any politi ...Show more
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; ...Show more