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Classics, Classics and World Literature
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Utopia (Penguin Classics) - Thomas More, translated by Dominic Baker-Smith (ex-libris)
Thomas More, translated by Dominic Baker-SmithEx-library stamp inside Thomas More's Utopia is a masterpiece of Renaissance political philosophy, responsible for introducing the term 'utopia' and spawning an entire genre of 'utopian' and 'dystopian' literature. This...
Classics and World Literature, English
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Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (Paperback, 1991)
A. S. Byatt"Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating...
Classics and World Literature, English
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Livy: The Early History of Rome (Penguin Classics)
Livy (Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt)Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic...
Classics and World Literature, English
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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage)
Kurt Vonnegut"In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum...
Classics, Classics and World Literature
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Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII (Bristol Classical Press)
Virgil, edited by R. Deryck WilliamsThis is the second volume of R. Deryck Williams' classic edition of the Aeneid, covering books VII and XII. It includes the Latin text, with English introduction, an extensive commentary...
Classics and World Literature, English
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Cicero: Murder Trials Translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics)
Cicero (translated by Michael Grant)“Whereas the place for prejudice is a public meeting, a court of law is the adobe of truth.” Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off...
Classics and World Literature, English
The Custom of the Country (Oxford World’s Classics) by Edith Wharton
Edith WhartonConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she...
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Classics and World Literature, English
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The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare (Vintage Classics)
Ismail Kadare, Translated by Barbara Bray"At the heart of the Sultan s vast but fragile empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams- the most secret and powerful Ministry ever invented. Its task is to scour...
Classics, Classics and World Literature
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Homer The Iliad (translated by Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics)
Homer (translated by Martin Hammond)One of the first and greatest literary achievements of Greek civilisation, The Iliad focuses on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and...
Classics, Classics and World Literature
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Silas Marner by George Elliott (Penguin Classics)
George ElliottGeorge Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood.Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas...
Classics, Classics and World Literature
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The Conquest of Gaul by Caesar (Translated by S. A. Handford, Revised by Jane P. Gardner) (Penguin Classics)
Caesar (Translated by S. A. Handford, Revised by Jane P. Gardner)Between 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar’s...
Classics and World Literature, English
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The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Penguin)
Chaim PotokOut of a Baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish Boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of...
Classics and World Literature, Languages
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Virgil: Aeneid I-VI (Bristol Classical Press) Edited by R. Deryck Williams
Virgil, edited by R. Deryck WilliamsThis is the first volume of R. Deryck Williams' classic edition of the Aeneid, covering books I-VI. It includes the Latin text, with English introduction, an extensive commentary and notes...
Classics, Classics and World Literature
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Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
Anton Chekhov, edited by Cathy PopkinAnton Chekhov's Selected Stories contains a wide spectrum of classics and new favorites, including "Ward No. 6," "The Lady with the Little Dog," "Anna on the Neck," "The Name-Day Party,"...
Biography & True Stories, Classics and World Literature
Plutarch: Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics)
Plutarch (translated by Robin Waterfield)Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time...
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Classics, Classics and World Literature
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Plutarch: The Age of Alexander Translated by Ian Scott~Kilvert (Penguin Classics)
Plutarch (translated by Ian Scott~Kilvert)Textual and historical notes supplement a segment of Plutarch's Lives which covers the rise of Macedonia.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 1973
Classics, Classics and World Literature
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Le Morte D'Arthur Volume I by Sir Thomas Malory (Penguin Classics)
Sir Thomas MaloryLe Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arhurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming the sword Excalibur, his...
Antiquarian & Collectibles, Classics and World Literature
Cupid and Psyche by Walter Pater, Illustrated by Errol Le Cain Hardcover, 1977 1st Edition
Walter Pater, Illustrated by Errol Le Cain This text is a shortened and slightly adapted version of the story of 'Cupid and Psyche' from Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater. 23 full page illustrations (23 plus decorative...
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Classics and World Literature, Philosophy
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Marion Faber, Stephen Lehmann (Penguin Classics)
Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Marion Faber, Stephen LehmannWritten after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as...
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Classics and World Literature, Philosophy
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin Classics)
Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Edited by Michael TannerA compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music...
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Antiquarian & Collectibles, Children and Young Adults
The Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle Folio Society HC/Slipcase
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald SearleA story featuring the trials and tribulations of Nigel Molesworth at St Custards school. Using his own brand of outrageous spelling, it includes his advice on how to cope with...
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Antiquarian & Collectibles, Architecture
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin, 2001 Hardcover/Slipcase Folio Society
John Ruskin, Edited with an Introduction by by Jan MorrisRuskin wrote the work in order to apply to the architecture of Venice the general principles enunciated in his The Seven Lamps of Architecture. He discusses architecture and its functional...
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Classics and World Literature, English
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Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (Vintage, 2007)
A. S. Byatt"Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating...
Classics and World Literature, Myths and Legends
Parzival: A Romance of the Middle Ages by Wolfram Von Eschenbach (Vintage Classics)
Wolfram Von Eschenbach Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that...
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