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Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito, Paperback - Plato

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These new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Plato's remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events s...

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Saints: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Simon Yarrow

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The idea of saints and sainthood are familiar to all, irrelevant of religious faith. In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Yarrow looks at the ori...

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The Odyssey, Paperback - Homer

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DescriptionThis prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really outstanding version of Homer...

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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Paperback - Jocelin of Brakelond

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DescriptionThis narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202--as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk who lived in the abbey of Bury St....

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In a Glass Darkly, Paperback - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Vol...

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The Good Soldier, Paperback - Ford Madox Ford

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The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a virtuoso performa...

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O Pioneers!, Paperback - Willa Cather

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O Pioneers , Willa Cather's second novel, tells the story of an immigrant family's struggle to save their Nebraska farm. Cather's placement of a st...

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Ecce Homo: How to Become What You Are, Paperback - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical...

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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection, Paperback - Hans Christian Andersen

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This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photogr...

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Water: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - John Finney

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Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Sh...

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Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia, New Atlantis, The Isle of Pines, Paperback - Thomas More

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With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for ...

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Oxford Essential Polish Dictionary: Polish-English/English-Polish/Polsko-Angielski/Angielsko-Polski, Paperback - Oxford Dictionaries

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The Oxford Essential Polish Dictionary is a new compact Polish-English and English-Polish dictionary that offers up-to-date coverage of all the ess...

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Minerals: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - David Vaughan

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Minerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems that...

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Three Tales, Paperback - Gustave Flaubert

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This collection of three tales, "A Simple Heart, " "Saint Julian, " and "Herodias" offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world...

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Pericles: The Oxford Shakespeare, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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Pericles was one of the most popular plays of its time, and it has regained much of that popularity today. In a wide-ranging introduction, Roger Wa...

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The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy

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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 pl...

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All's Well That Ends Well, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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Usually classified as a "problem comedy, " All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman...

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Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts - Edmond Rostand

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DescriptionTonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mort...

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The Taming of the Shrew: The Oxford Shakespeare, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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DescriptionOne of Shakespeare's most rollicking and beloved comedies, The Taming of the Shrew was also one of his earliest, probably written about ...

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Therese Raquin, Paperback - Emile Zola

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Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassio...

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Man-Eaters of Kumaon, Paperback - Jim Corbett

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Jim Corbett was every inch a hero, something like a "sahib" Davy Crockett: expert in the ways of the jungle, fearless in the pursuit of man-eating ...

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The Old English Baron, Paperback - Clara Reeve

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DescriptionThe Old English Baron is an ambitious rewriting of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, transporting the trappings of the Gothic to medie...

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Winesburg, Ohio, Paperback - Sherwood Anderson

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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth ce...

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Shirley, Paperback - Charlotte Bronte

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Shirley is Charlotte Bront: e e's only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period o...

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Social Contract, Paperback - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic be...

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Twilight of the Idols: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, Paperback - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philosoph...

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Universities and Colleges: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - David Palfreyman

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What is a university? How have universities and colleges evolved over the centuries? What will be the impact of digital- and distance-learning; of ...

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Cymbeline: The Oxford Shakespeare, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic...

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Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Marlene Zuk

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DescriptionWhat is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds-of-paradise to the ant...

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The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories, Paperback - Stephen Crane

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Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience f...

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Love's Labour's Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage a...

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Selected Myths, Paperback - ***

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Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist. We are used to thinking of myths containing lines like this simply as s...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Paperback - L. Frank Baum

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Published at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) immediately captivated children and adult readers alike. This new...

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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, Paperback - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

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Reducere. This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the worl...

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Notes from the Underground and the Gambler, Paperback - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often...

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The Mysteries of Udolpho, Paperback - Ann Radcliffe

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A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries...

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Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Tom Burns

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DescriptionPsychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavor, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the med...

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The Rainbow, Paperback - D. H. Lawrence

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In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenged the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structures of his prose the fascin...

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Hegel: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Peter Singer

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Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in...

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales, Paperback - Herman Melville

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Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrati...

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Paperback - Alexandre Dumas

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One of the most exciting and best-loved novels of all time, The Count of Monte Cristo is a timeless tale of endurance, courage, and revenge. Falsel...

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Wealth of Nations, Paperback - Adam Smith

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While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, The Wealth of Nations actually shows that...

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Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Andrew Clapham

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Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attenti...

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Molecular Biology: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Aysha Divan

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Molecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field i...

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Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - John Gribbin PhD

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In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the...

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Tom Jones, Paperback - Henry Fielding

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Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one...

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Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Jonathan St B. T. Evans

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Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us suscepti...

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The Homeric Hymns, Paperback - Michael Crudden

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Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive t...

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Leaves of Grass, Paperback - Walt Whitman

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Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, h...

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Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Stephen Mumford

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Metaphysics is traditionally one of the four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is an area that continues to...

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Statistics, Paperback - David J. Hand

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Statistical ideas and methods underlie just about every aspect of modern life. From randomized clinical trials in medical research, to statistical ...

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The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - DrAshley Jackson

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From the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at o...

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Jesus, Paperback - Richard Bauckham

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Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide...

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Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Frank Close

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In Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling and lively introduction to the fundamental pa...

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Sleep: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Steven W. Lockley

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Why do we need sleep? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? This Very Short Introduction addresses the biological and psychological...

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Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794, Paperback - William Blake

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Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plat...

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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Paperback - Charles Brockden Brown

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Contributor(s): Author: Charles Brockden BrownEditor: Emory ElliottOne of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of...

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The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Eric R. Scerri

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DescriptionThe periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by ...

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On War, Paperback - Carl Von Clausewitz

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On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during t...

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Eugenie Grandet, Paperback - Honorae de Balzac

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'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1...

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Selected Poems, Paperback - Federico Garcia Lorca

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DescriptionFederico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for...

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The Gallic War, Paperback - Julius Caesar

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The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of ...

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International Law: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Vaughan Lowe

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Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its key role in such hot-button issues such as the Ira...

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Aeneid, Paperback - Virgil

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Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done be...

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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs, Paperback - Soren Kierkegaard

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"The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love." So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itsel...

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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, Paperback - Dorothy Wordsworth

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Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers....

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Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished,...

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The Complete Odes, Paperback - Pindar

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DescriptionThe Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the ...

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Kant: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Roger Scruton

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Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduct...

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Daphnis and Chloe, Paperback - Longus

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DescriptionLongus's romance tells the story of two teenagers, Daphnis and Chloe, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Around their...

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