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The Nature of the Gods by Anne Cicero; P. G. Walsh (Translator); Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light they cast on the intellectual life of first-century Rom ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings by René Descartes; Michael Moriarty (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on under ...Show more
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by Synge , J.M
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers every one of his plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The introduction to this new, definitive edition sets the plays in the ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonder ...Show more
The Shadow-Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Only the young have such moments. I don‟t mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no in-trospection.One closes behind one the little ga ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare; Stephen Orgel (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. 'How many good ...Show more
Three Plays - Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, the Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In ...Show more
Trilby by DU MAURIER, GEORGE
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
Typhoon and Other Tales by Conrad, Joseph, Watts, Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"Typhoon and Other Stories" is a collection of four shorter works by Joseph Conrad. In the title work "Typhoon" we have a classic tale of the sea which describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the Siamese steamer "Nan-Shan" into a typhoon. "Typhoon" excellently depicts sea-faring life at the turn of the 20t ...Show more
Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, and tempered his celebration of a self-regulating market with a darker vision of the dehumanizing potent ...Show more
William Blake - Selected Poems by William Blake; Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'And a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour'William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with ...Show more