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An Accidental Familyby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard FreebornISBN 0192828363 (0-19-282836-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Accidental Family'Book summary:Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time." [via]
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Aiasby Sophocles, Richard Pevear, Herbert GolderISBN 0195128192 (0-19-512819-2)
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthologyby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 0192835475 (0-19-283547-5)
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, J. O. Urmson, J. L. Ackrill, W.D. Ross, David RossISBN 019283407X (0-19-283407-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency, the book offers an illuminating discource on moral virtue, intellectual virtue, pleasure, friendship, happiness, and many other topics. [via]
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperorby Wheeler M. Thackston, BaburISBN 0195096711 (0-19-509671-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor'Book summary:Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur was the first Mughal, or Mongol, emperor of India. A devoted warrior who fought by the bloodthirsty standards of his time, Babur was also a gifted scholar and ethnographer, and his memoir, The Baburnama--which translator and editor Wheeler Thackston heralds as the first autobiography in Islamic literature--paints a fascinating portrait of the lands he conquered, such as Hindustan: "A strange country. Compared to ours, it is another world. Its mountains, rivers, forests, and wildernesses, its villages and provinces, animals and plants, peoples and languages, even its rain and winds are altogether different." They were different indeed, and we're fortunate to have this beautifully illustrated record of Babur's wonderment at the new places he saw. [via]
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Bakkhaiby Euripides, Reginald Gibbons, Charles SegalISBN 0195125983 (0-19-512598-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bakkhai'Book summary:Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements.
Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from Asia proclaiming his godhood and preaching his orgiastic religion. He expects to be embraced in Thebes, but the Theban king, Pentheus, forbids his people to worship him and tries to have him arrested. Enraged, Bacchus drives Pentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes tear him to pieces in a Bacchic frenzy.
Gibbons, a prize-winning poet, and Segal, a renowned classicist, offer a skilled new translation of this central text of Greek tragedy. [via]More editions of Bakkhai:
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Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburhby Kevin Crossley-Holland, Heather O'DonoghueISBN 0192833200 (0-19-283320-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh'Book summary:The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty. Set in the legendary Scandinavian past, Beowulf comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing the terrifying monster Grendel and its vengeful mother. A lifetime later, Beowulf courageously prepares for another great battle when a fiery dragon threatens his own kingdom. This acclaimed translation contains a critical introduction, a full index of names, and extensive notes. [via]
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Marion Faber, Robert C. HolubISBN 0192832638 (0-19-283263-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil'Book summary:Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub. [via]
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 019283360X (0-19-283360-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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Capitalby Karl MarxISBN 0192838725 (0-19-283872-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influential work in twentieth-century social science; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology.
This is the only abridged edition to take into account the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867; excerpts from a new translation of "The Result of the Immediate Process Production"; and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which Engels published in 1895. [via]More editions of Capital:
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The Civil Warby Julius Caesar, John M. CarterISBN 0192839233 (0-19-283923-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civil War'Book summary:The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pompey's heirs and followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of Caesar's assassination in March 44 B.C. This generously annotated edition places the war in context and enables the reader to grasp it both in detail and as a whole. [via]
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The Consolation of Philosophyby Boethius, Peterg WalshISBN 0192838830 (0-19-283883-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Consolation of Philosophy'Book summary:Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust. Though a Christian, Boethius details the true end of life as the soul's knowledge of God, and consoles himself with the tenets of Greek philosophy, not with Christian precepts. Written in a form called Meippean Satire that alternates between prose and verse, Boethius' work often consists of a story told by Ovid or Horace to illustrate the philosophy being expounded. The Consolation of Philosophy dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; it inspired writers as diverse Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun, and Dante. In England it was rendered into Old English by Alfred the Great, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, and later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation. The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanor of the author, and the Meippean texture of part prose, part verse have been a fascination for students of philosophy, literature, and religion ever since. [via]
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The Coquetteby Hannah Webster Foster, Cathy N. DavidsonISBN 0195042395 (0-19-504239-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coquette'Book summary:The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.
Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but insincere man, and the Reverend Boyer, a bore who wants to marry her. When, in her mid-30s, Wharton finds herself suddenly abandoned when both men marry other women, she willfully enters into an adulterous relationship with Sanford and becomes pregnant. Alone and dejected, she dies in childbirth at a roadside inn. Eliza Wharton, whose real-life counterpart was distantly related to Hannah Foster's husband, was one of the first women in American fiction to emerge as a real person facing a dilemma in her life. In her Introduction, Davidson discusses the parallels between Elizabeth Whitman and the fictional Eliza Wharton. She shows the limitations placed on women in the 18th century and the attempts of one woman to rebel against those limitations. [via]More editions of The Coquette:
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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract: And, the Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher BettsISBN 0192835971 (0-19-283597-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract: And, the Social Contract'Book summary: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 belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy", a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes. [via]
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Discourses on Livyby Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter E. Bondanella, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter BondanellaISBN 0192829459 (0-19-282945-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourses on Livy'Book summary:Discourses on Livy (1531) demonstrates Machiavelli's fundamental preference for the republicanism of ancient Rome. In an age when political absolutism was increasingly the norm, Machiavelli's republican theories would become a dangerous ideology, and his works were placed on the Index of Prohibited Works in 1559. This new translation is richly annotated, providing the contemporary reader with sufficient historical, linguistic and political information to understand and interpret the revolutionary affirmations Machiavelli made, based on the historical evidence he found in Livy. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Alighieri Dante, David H. Higgins, SissonISBN 0192830732 (0-19-283073-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, David H. Higgins, C. H. SissonISBN 0192835025 (0-19-283502-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Robert M. DurlingISBN 019508747X (0-19-508747-X)
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Infernoby Robert M. Durling, Ronald L. Martinez, Alighieri DanteISBN 0195087402 (0-19-508740-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno'Book summary:This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima . Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorioby Robert M. Durling, Robert Turner, Ronald L. MartinezISBN 0195087410 (0-19-508741-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio'Book summary:The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax.
Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno. Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes.
Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. [via]More editions of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio:
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Don Quixote De LA Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, E.C. Riley, Charles JarvisISBN 0192834835 (0-19-283483-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote De LA Mancha'Book summary:Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes' belated but colossal literary success. A work which has achieved mythic status, it is considered to have pioneered the modern novel. Don Quixote, a poor gentleman from La Mancha, Spain, entranced by the code of chivalry, seeks romantic honor through absurd and fantastic adventures. His fevered imagination turns everyday objects into heroic opponents and stepping stones to greater glory; each exploit serves as a comic, yet disturbing commentary on the psychological struggle between reality and illusion, fact and fiction. This celebrated translation by Charles Jarvis offers a new introduction and notes which provide essential background information. [via]
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Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeologial Discoveriesby Brian M. FaganISBN 0195126513 (0-19-512651-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeologial Discoveries'Book summary:Archaeology has an aura of romance and a long history of startling discoveries wrested from clinging soil. Indeed, patience and persistence can lead to spectacular finds, as they did for Howard Carter in November 1922. After seven years searching the Egyptian desert, Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, and in these vivid words he described what the tomb held in store: "At first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle flame to flicker, but presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold--everywhere the glint of gold."
In Eyewitness to Discovery, Brian M. Fagan gathers together fifty-five vivid accounts of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries, from the tomb of Tutankhamun and the Aegean Marbles to Otzi the Iceman and Macchu Picchu, told by the people who discovered them. The selections chronicle the development of the field, from the early 1700s when archaeology was little more than a lighthearted treasure hunt, to the late twentieth century when discoveries often come not only from spectacular excavations, but also from the screens of computers or from the analysis of pollen grains invisible to the naked eye. Fagan provides engaging, informative introductions to each selection, as well as an introduction to the volume, that lays out the history of archaeology.
But the heart of the book is the excitement of the discoveries themselves. We see how Arthur Evans found clues on Minoan seals in an Athens flea market that helped him discover the Palace of Knossos and a long forgotten early civilization; how Austen Henry Layard--one of the heroic archaeologists of the nineteenth century--discovered ancient Nineveh; and how General Napoléon Bonaparte's soldiers found the Rosetta Stone, one of the most important archaeological finds in history, in the Nile Delta in 1799. And we read how, in 1974, Don Johanson, while working in the center of the Afar desert in Ethiopia--a wasteland of bare rock, gravel, and sand--happened upon the oldest, most complete skeleton of any human ancestor that had ever been found: Lucy, approximately 3.5 million years old.
Archaeological discovery unveils the past and brings us face to face with the triumphs and tragedies of those who have gone before. This book is a celebration of archaeological discoveries, and the men and women who made them. [via]More editions of Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeologial Discoveries:
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192835955 (0-19-283595-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 1'Book summary:This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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The Flight to Italy: Dairy and Selected Lettersby T.J. Reed, Johann Wolfgang GoetheISBN 0192838865 (0-19-283886-5)
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Four Essays on Libertyby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0195012429 (0-19-501242-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Essays on Liberty'Book summary:The four essays are `Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'; `Historical Inevitability', which the Economist described as `a magnificent assertion of the reality of human freedom, of the role of free choice in history'; `Two Concepts of Liberty', a ringing manifesto for pluralism and individual freedom; and `John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life'. There is also a long and masterly introduction written specially for this collection, in which the author replies to his critics. This book is intended for students from undergraduate level upwards studying philosophy, history, politics. Admirers of Isaiah Berlin's writings. [via]
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From Max Weber: Essays in Sociologyby Max WeberISBN 0195004620 (0-19-500462-0)
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From Supplication to Revolution: A Documentary Social History of Imperial Russiaby Gregory FreezeISBN 0195043596 (0-19-504359-6)
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earthby J.E. LovelockISBN 0192862189 (0-19-286218-9)
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Goethe's Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0195004108 (0-19-500410-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe's Faust'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the proper company for his Cadaverousness. In a letter of 1780, Goethe playfully applies the name £rad)e to his friend Merck, who was also a gaunt man. 5671. iBJnrlcrlol', 'wooden cross'; in sarcastic allusion to the Lean Person's appearance. 5678. bctUCflt, 'excitedly'; adv. with entfctltett. 5681. llmfrfjiipytc = befcfjupte, 'scaly.' 5685-6. J)o6cn... fycrnitiictraticn. The dragons (without hands, hence the marvel) take the box, with Mephistopheles sitting on it, out of the chariot and bring it to (heron) where Faust is standing. 5691. ft!) fief lit, 'motley.' 56g6. jur GtnfomfeU. Cf. the words of the Poet in the Prelude, 11. 59 ff. 5706. ticrrnftjcu. Poetry is self-revelation, i.e., self-betrayal. Cf. the lines in the West-Ostlicher Divan, IX, 19: ®rft ficfi im fflefjetmnifs toteflcn, £mn ter)I(mtetn friif) unb fpatl SUcfjter ift umfonft Berf(6wieflen, Sidjten fel&ft ift fdjott Serratfj. 5712. (loltmcnt SBlitte; figurative for the red-golden liquid which rises in the pots and threatens to dissolve the jewels. 5717. ftJimeljen fid), 'are melting,' i.e.,' are on the point of melting,'--whence the need of seizing them quickly. 5718. ©emiinte SRoHcn, 'minted rolls,' i.e., coins. 5719. $u!aten... gepragt = OotbftiidCe tote getorfigte £ufatcn, 'pieces like genuine ducats.' But Schroer says tote geprtigt = hrie lieu ge« torogt. 573-©olb unb 2Bertfy; i.e., roerthtjolle? (roirfltd)e«) ©olb. 5735-6. The meaning is: What 's the use of truth for such as you, ever the ready victims of stupid illusion?--9ln alien 3tyfeltt patfctl, 'to lay hold of by every tag,' i.e., to lay hold of with all one's might. 5753-Oil' UltS all', 'all together,' 'every one of us.' Cf. Sltt OTe in 1. 8483+. 5761-2. Plutus as magician draws an... [via]
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The Grasmere Journalsby Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela WoofISBN 0192831305 (0-19-283130-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grasmere Journals'Book summary:Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals, begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and continued for nearly three years until January 1803, is perhaps the best-loved of all journals. Noting the walks and the weather, the friends, country neighbors and beggars on the roads, William Wordsworth's marriage, the composition of poetry, and their concern for Coleridge, her words bring those first years to vivid and intimate life. This edition has been prepared directly from the manuscripts with undeciphered words clarified, first thoughts, later insertions and deletions indicated, and Dorothy's hasty punctuation largely restored. It also offers rich explanatory notes, containing much new detail on friends and family, the scarcely-known people of the Grasmere valley, the books that were read, and the connections with William Wordsworth's poetry. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Paul TurnerISBN 0192833774 (0-19-283377-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall ...I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk ... [via]
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Hannibal's Warby Livy, Dexter HoyosISBN 0192831593 (0-19-283159-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannibal's War'Book summary:Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans over the following sixteen years.
Livy's gripping storytelling vividly conveys the drama of the great battles, and individuals as well as events are brought powerfully to slife.
This new translation captures the brilliance of Livy's style, and is accompanied by a fascinating introduction and notes. The comprehensive introduction examines Livy, his work, his historical accuracy, his sources, and the course of Hannibal's campaign by a scholar well known for his work on Hannibal and his times. The edition includes a glossary of Roman and Carthaginian terms, a chronological table, an index, a series of detailed maps, and a discussion of the route of Hannibal from the south of Spain over the Alps to Italy. This wonderfully complete edition is perfect for lovers of classical literature, those with an interest in ancient or military history, and students in an array of classes. [via]More editions of Hannibal's War:
Hegel's Philosophy of Rightby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 0195002768 (0-19-500276-8)
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The Historiesby Cornelius Tacitus, David Levene, W. H. FyfeISBN 0192839586 (0-19-283958-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous `year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H. Fyfe's classic translation has been substantially revised and supplied with extensive historical and literary notes. The Introduction examines the subtleties of Tacitus's writing and gives the necessary political and social background. [via]
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Holy Bible: New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version/Black Leather/9914by Bruce MetzgerISBN 0195283708 (0-19-528370-8)
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Holy Bible: New Oxford Annotated Bible W/Apocrypha, New Revised Standard Version/ Burgundy Leather/9914A: ISBN 0195283759 (0-19-528375-9)
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The Karamazov Brothersby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat AvseyISBN 0192835092 (0-19-283509-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Karamazov Brothers'Book summary:Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. [via]
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Letters from an American Farmerby J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Susan ManningISBN 0192838989 (0-19-283898-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from an American Farmer'Book summary:Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and identity issues, these Letters celebrate personal determination, freedom from institutional oppression, and the largeness and fertility of the land. They also address darker and more symbolic elements, particularly slavery. This book is the only critical edition available of what is seen by many as the first-ever work of American literature. [via]
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Leviathanby Thomas Hobbes, J.C.A. GaskinISBN 0192834983 (0-19-283498-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan'Book summary:He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own individual desires and fears. He shows that a conflict of each against every man can only be avoided by the adoption of a compact to enforce peace. The compact involves giving up some of our natural freedom to a sovereign power which will enforce the laws of peace on all citizens. Hobbes also analyses the subversive forces - religion, ambition, private conscience - that threaten to destroy the body politic, Leviathan itself, and return us to the state of war. This new edition reproduces the first printed text, retaining the original punctuation but modernizing the spelling. It offers exceptionally thorough and useful annotation, an introduction that guides the reader through the complexities of Hobbes's arguments, and a substantial index. [via]
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A Life of Johnsonby James Boswell, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192835319 (0-19-283531-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life of Johnson'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are suchdelightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler, and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858by Abraham Lincoln, JohannsenISBN 0195009215 (0-19-500921-5)
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Medieval Women's Visionary Literatureby Elizabeth Alvilda PetroffISBN 019503712X (0-19-503712-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Women's Visionary Literature'Book summary:These pages capture a thousand years of devotional and visionary writing by medieval women. The writers come from all different backgrounds and traditions, and they include founders of religious communities, hermits and recluses, wives and mothers, wandering teachers, heretics and reformers. What they all had in common was a belief that they had been chosen to speak, and here we have the evidence of their visions and experiences of the divine.
Covering a span of time from late antiquity to the 15th century, the writings include examples of lyric poetry, drama (including the first play written by a woman), epics, saints' lives, and letters. as well as some newly invented genres such as the spiritual autobiography, the guide to prayer, progression of visions, and in Inquisition depositions. A new portrait of the female writer in the Middle Ages emerges, a more accurate portrait than was ever before possible, as many of these texts have either been out of print or are here translated for the first time. We see women writers of the Middle Ages doing what they did best: writing devotional, visionary, and erotic literature from a very personal viewpoint, and what they say to the modern reader has much to do with nature of creativity and the creative experience of women. [via]More editions of Medieval Women's Visionary Literature:
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninusby A.S.L. FarquharsonISBN 0192827901 (0-19-282790-1)
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninusby Marcus Aurelius, R. B. Rutherford, A.S.L. Farquharson, Marcus Cornelius FrontoISBN 0192839071 (0-19-283907-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus'Book summary:A. S. L. Farquharson's translation was originally published in 1944, as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work. In this volume, Farquharson's work is brought up to date and supplied with an introduction and notes for the student and general reader. A selection of lively letters from Marcus to his tutor Fronto, most of which date from his earlier years, is also included. [via]
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, A.D. Melville, E.J. KenneyISBN 019283472X (0-19-283472-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Tony TannerISBN 0192833855 (0-19-283385-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Managementby Nicola Humble, BeetonISBN 0192833456 (0-19-283345-6)
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The New Oxford Annotated Bible: College EditionISBN 019528335X (0-19-528335-X)
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Find This BookBook summary:Students, professors and general readers alike have relied upon the Oxford Annotated Bible for essential scholarship and guidance to the world of the Bible for four decades. Now a new editorial board and team of contributors have completely updated this classic work. The result is a volume which maintains and extends the excellence the Annotated's users have come to expect, bringing new insights, information, and approaches to bear upon the understanding of the text of the Bible.
The new edition includes a full index to all of the study material (not just to the annotations), and one that is keyed to page numbers, not to citations. And, to make certain points in the text clearer for the reader, there are approximately 40 in-text, line drawing maps and diagrams.
With the best of the Annotated's traditional strengths, and the augmentation of new information and new approaches represented in current scholarship, the Third Edition will remain the reader's and student's constant resource. [via]More editions of The New Oxford Annotated Bible: College Edition:
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Hardcover, Oxford University Press - The New Oxford Annotated Bible: College Edition: ISBN 0195284836 (0-19-528483-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - The New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version College Edition: ISBN 0195284119 (0-19-528411-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible: With the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Books/New Revised Standard Version: ISBN 0195284852 (0-19-528485-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version Genuine Leather Burgundy Indexed 9714: ISBN 0195284917 (0-19-528491-7)
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version With the Apocrypha Genuine Leather/Burgundy/Indexed: ISBN 019528495X (0-19-528495-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible/Revised Standard Version/Black: ISBN 0195283341 (0-19-528334-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocrypha: An Ecumenical Study Bible/Completely Revised and Enlarged/Indexed/9900A: ISBN 0195283821 (0-19-528382-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible: With the Apocryphal/ Standard Edition: ISBN 019528478X (0-19-528478-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version: ISBN 0195284801 (0-19-528480-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version Hardcover Indexed 9700A: ISBN 0195284828 (0-19-528482-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version: ISBN 0195284844 (0-19-528484-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocrypha: ISBN 019528335X (0-19-528335-X)
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- New Oxford Annotated Bible : New Revised Standard Verson Without Apocrypha (Indexed): ISBN 019528481X (0-19-528481-X)
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The New Oxford Annotated Bible: The Holy Bible/No 08900by Bruce M. Metzger, Herbert G. MayISBN 0195283244 (0-19-528324-4)
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One of the most celebrated volumes in Oxford's renowned line of bibles, the RSV New Oxford Annotated Bible features an impressive array of supplementary materials to guide in readers' understanding of the scripture. Outstanding biblical scholarship, affordability, and thousands of satisfied readers have proven that the RSV NOAB is the best ecumenical resource available today.
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Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. New Revised Standard Version: ISBN 0195283562 (0-19-528356-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The New Oxford Annotated Bible: The Holy Bible/No 08900: ISBN 0195283244 (0-19-528324-4)
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The Oresteiaby Aeschylus, Christopher CollardISBN 0192832816 (0-19-283281-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. It begins with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, continues with her murder by their son Orestes in Libation Bearers, and concludes with Orestes' acquittal at a court founded by Athena in Eumenides. The trilogy thus traces the evolution of justice in human society from blood vengeance to the rule of law, Aeschylus' contribution to a Greek legend steeped in murder, adultery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and endless intrigue. This new translation is faithful to the strangeness of the original Greek and to its enduring human truth, expressed in language remarkable for poetic intensity, rich metaphorical texture, and a verbal density that modulates at times into powerful simplicity. The translation's precise but complicated rhythms honor the music of the Greek, bringing into unforgettable English the Aeschylean vision of a world fraught with spiritual and political tensions. [via]
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The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotesby Elizabeth LongfordISBN 0192828517 (0-19-282851-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes'Book summary:Here is a sparkling collection of Crown jewels--from amusing tales that humanize their subjects to dramatic stories of martyrdoms, palace intrigues, and bloody battles. Elizabeth Longford, intimate of the royal family and biographer of Victoria and Elizabeth II, has assembled the best anecdotes ever written and reported abut the kings and queens of England, across the full range of Britain's history from the first century A.D. to the present day.
Scholars and versifiers, lawgivers and saints crowd the pages alongside soldiers, scallywags, and imbeciles, and never have these distant figures been brought more vividly to life than in this splendid anthology. We read of Alfred's burnt cakes, Cnut and the wolves, Henry VIII and his six wives, George III resigning himself to American independence, Edward VII's gambling habits, and much more. There are samplings of royal wit (as when James I said of John Donne's poetry: Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding."), of royal modesty (as in Elizabeth II's explanation of why she wore no crown at the musician Robert Mayer's 100th birthday party: "I thought it was Sir Robert's night, not mine."), and of royal certitude (as in Victoria's comment during a dark moment of the Boer War: "Please understand that there is no one depressed this house; we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.")
The Countess of Longford's helpful commentary clarifies the complexities of royal genealogy and adds a sharp and often humorous perspective to bygone events. Her sources range from the earliest medieval chroniclers to biographers and historians of today, from dispassionate descriptions to intimate and revealing accounts from the letters and journals of the monarchs themselves. The result is truly a historical feast fit for a king. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes:
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The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spellingby Norman DavisISBN 0192836404 (0-19-283640-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling'Book summary:The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English. The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of HenryVI, Edward IV, and Richard III, in a period of political turmoil, local anarchy, and war abroad and at home. They reveal personal hopes and anxieties, and contain as well as business matters a wealth of information on leisure pursuits, education, and domestic life. The writers express themselves with a clarity and vigour that is remarkable at this early date, and the letter illustrate, as no other documents can, the state of the language in daily use immediately before and after the introduction of printing. This modernized selection prepared from the original manuscripts is designed to present the full range of the Pastons' principle concerns. [via]
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The Poems of Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Guy LeeISBN 0192835874 (0-19-283587-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Catullus'Book summary:Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful appeal on all kinds of readers. The 116 poems collected in this new translation include the famous Lesbia poems and display the full range of Catullus's mastery of lyric meter, mythological themes, and epigrammatic invective and wit. [via]
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Politicsby Aristotle, Ernest Barker, R. F. StalleyISBN 0192833936 (0-19-283393-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics'Book summary:The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. By examining the way societies are run--from households to city states--Aristotle establishes how successful constitutions can best be initiated and upheld.
For this edition, Sir Ernest Barker's fine translation, which has been widely used for nearly half a century, has been extensively revised to meet the needs of the modern reader. The accessible introduction and clear notes examine the historical and philosophical background of the work and discuss its significance for modern political thought. [via] -
Politics of Aristotleby Aristotle, Carnes LordISBN 0195003063 (0-19-500306-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics of Aristotle'Book summary:Aristotle's Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows his complete mastery of political theory and practice, and raises many crucial issues still with us today. In Book I he argues vigorously for a political theory based on 'nature'. By nature, man is a 'political animal', one naturally fitted for life in a polis or state. Some people, however, are natural slaves; and women are by nature subordinate to men. Acquisition and exchange are natural, but not trading for profit. In Book II he launches a sharp attack on Plato's two 'utopias', the Republic and the Laws, and also criticizes three historical states reputed to be well governed: Sparta, Crete, and Carthage. This volume contains a close translation of these two books, together with a philosophical commentary. It is well suited to the requirements of readers who do not know Greek. [via]
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, L. G. MitchellISBN 0192839780 (0-19-283978-0)
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The Romance of the Roseby Guillaume De Lorris, Jean De Meun, Frances HorganISBN 0192839489 (0-19-283948-9)
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Symposiumby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192834274 (0-19-283427-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Symposium'Book summary:In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness, and a brilliant sketch of Socrates himself by a drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time. Engaging the reader on every page, this new translation conveys the power, humor, and pathos of Plato's creation and is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction. [via]
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The Three Theban Playsby Sophocles, Theodore Howard BanksISBN 0195010590 (0-19-501059-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Theban Plays'Book summary:Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English. [via]
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Tom Jonesby Henry Fielding, John Bender, Simon SternISBN 0192834975 (0-19-283497-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Jones'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jean Fagan YellinISBN 0192827871 (0-19-282787-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:There may be no other novel in American history as significant as Uncle Tom's Cabin. A feat of gripping storytelling--the first American work of fiction to become an international bestseller--no other book so effectively expressed the moral case against the "peculiar institution" of slavery.
Oxford University Press is pleased to announce a special 150th anniversary edition of this American classic. This volume features a new introduction by Charles Johnson, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and winner of the National Book Award for his 1990 novel Middle Passage. Johnson examines Uncle Tom's Cabin with an eye that is at once appreciative and critical, discussing its considerable craft, its impact on its 1852 audience, and its "ineluctably racist" view of African Americans. He describes how Stowe created vibrant and dramatic characters from all levels of Southern society--the mulatto genius George Harris, his light-skinned wife Eliza, the vicious slave trader Dan Haley, the guilt-ridden Augustine St. Clare--hurling them along truly exciting plotlines. She also infused her book with her then-controversial awareness of the humanity of black men and women, giving her audience a sense of the personal reality of the horrors of slavery. But even as sympathetic an author as Stowe, Johnson observes, substituted one kind of racism for another, depicting her black characters with a patronizing condescension.
A classic of American fiction, a pivotal moment in history, and a cultural touchstone, Uncle Tom's Cabin has not lost its relevance or its power. With this insightful new introduction by one of our finest writers, it deserves a place on a bookshelf in every home. [via] -
Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, John SutherlandISBN 0192834436 (0-19-283443-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This edition of one of the greatest social satires of the English language reproduces the text of the Oxford Thackeray and includes all of Thackeray's own illustrations. [via]
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0192833987 (0-19-283398-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Yet while his historical vision ranged beyond national frontiers, his imaginative vision focused, with extraordinary intensity, on the lives of individuals, on the physical reality of human experience and its bewildering complexity. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, 'a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, 'of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. [via]
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawaby Sledge, Eugene B., Jr., Paul FussellISBN 0195067142 (0-19-506714-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa'Book summary:In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion.
Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience.
Sledge enlisted out of patriotism, idealism, and youthful courage, but once he landed on the beach at Peleliu, it was purely a struggle for survival. Based on the notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his New Testament, he simply and directly recalls those long months, mincing no words and sparing no pain. The reality of battle meant unbearable heat, deafening gunfire, unimaginable brutality and cruelty, the stench of death, and, above all, constant fear. Sledge still has nightmares about "the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa." But, as he also tellingly reveals, the bonds of friendship formed then will never be severed.
Sledge's honesty and compassion for the other marines, even complete strangers, sets him apart as a memoirist of war. Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a moving chronicle of action and courage. [via]More editions of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa:
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