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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He ...Show more
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of love an ...Show more
Republic by Plato .
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw ...Show more
Sayings of the Buddha by Rupert Gethin
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways.' Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of a wandering ascetic in northern India during the fifth century BCE, is looked to as the founder of one ...Show more
Selected Essays by David Hume
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, compre ...Show more
Selected Letters by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Bronte's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct source of information about the lives o ...Show more
Selected Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!' The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggl ...Show more
Selected Letters by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth- ...Show more
Selected Poems with Parallel Spanish Text by Lorca, Federico Garcia
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Federico García Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land, climate, and folklore of his native Andalusia, thou ...Show more
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's ta ...Show more