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Anouilh Plays: Bk. 1: Antigone, Leocardia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, Poor Bitos by Jean Anouilh
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: World Classics
A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a re ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays 1 : All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: World Classics
Reissued with a new jacket to mark the publication of the sixth and final collection of Miller's plays, this volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All five plays were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit ...Show more
Capital Volume 1 & Volume 2 by Karl Marx
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics of World Literature
This unabridged paperback edition is based on the first translation into English by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, which was edited by Frederick Engels. The book focuses on capitalist production, and analyses capitalism's workings through detailed research and observation, focusing mainly on Britain, ...Show more
Confessions by Augustine Hippo
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Category: Religion | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
St Augustine's 'Confessions' was written between AD 397-400. An autobiographical work, it was written in thirteen parts, each a complete text intended to be read aloud. Written in his early 40s, it documents the development of Augustine's thought from childhood into his adult life - a life he considered ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the ...Show more
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first ban ...Show more
General Introduction to Psychonalysis by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip', the 'Oedipus complex', 'childhood sexuality', 'libido', 'narcissism' 'penis envy', the 'castration complex', the 'id', the 'ego' and the 'superego', 'denial', 'repre ...Show more
Little Red Riding Hood by Grimm Brothers; Joy Cowley (retold)
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Category: Childrens Classics | Series: World Classics
The sweet and kind Little Red Riding Hood sets off through the woods to her sick grandmother's hosue with a basket of food. On the way, she forgets her mother's instructions not to wander off the path and when she finally arrives at grandmother's house something is not quite right. Fortunately, an obser ...Show more
On War (Abridged) by Carl Von Clausewitz; J. J. Graham (Translator); F. N. Maude (Revised by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Translated 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 written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which sw ...Show more
Scott's Last Expedition : Captain Scott by Captain Scott
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Category: History | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. 'Had we lived,' he wrote, 'I should have had a tale to tell of the ...Show more
The Frog Prince by Grimm Brothers; Joy Cowley (retold)
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Category: Childrens Classics | Series: World Classics Ser.
The Brothers Grimm tale about a spoiled princess who reluctantly befriends the Frog Prince is faithfully followed in this edition. The beautiful artwork combines etching and illustration techniques.
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extin ...Show more