Key Philosophical Writings
Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the ‘father’...
View full detailsTranslated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the ‘father’...
View full detailsEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shake...
View full detailsLittle Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life ...
View full detailsLittle Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life...
View full detailsIntroduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relativ...
View full detailsEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shake...
View full detailsNjal's Saga by Lee M. Hollander. Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, ab...
View full detailsTranslated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever wri...
View full detailsWith an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virgin...
View full detailsWhat does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest her...
View full detailsThe story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children's tales of all time.Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an...
View full detailsPride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous a...
View full detailsTranslated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced ...
View full detailsRichard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatical...
View full detailsIntroduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through ...
View full detailsWith an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith. In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love...
View full detailsIn this selection of tales by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Ta...
View full detailsAndrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, ...
View full detailsMy name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know'.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan...
View full detailsThe Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny ...
View full detailsWilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy st...
View full detailsWith an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of commun...
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View full detailsJane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to crea...
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