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The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings by René Descartes; Michael Moriarty (Translator)
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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 Peloponnesian War by Thucydides .
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index.
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.' So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature.
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects Catullus' mastery of poetic forms as diverse as the lyric, the inventive epigram, and the romantic legend, and shows hi ...Show more
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a deba ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Ian (EDT) James; Duncan Hogg
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
"A real work of imagination, ponderated and achieved." -- Robert Louis Stevenson The son of a radical Calvinist minister conducts a crime spree that horrifies eighteenth-century Scottish society in this gripping tale of murder, madness, and demonic possession. According to Robert Wringhim, his crimes ar ...Show more
The Professor by Margaret (INT) Herbert (EDT); Smith Margaret (EDT); Rosengarten Charlotte; Smith Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Qur'an by HALEEM TRANS
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...Show more
The Qur'an by M.A.Abdel Haleem
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...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