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Gorgias by Plato
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rhetoric, the dialogue soon becomes an investigation into ...Show more
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant; Christopher Bennett (Translator); Joe Saunders (Translator); Robert Stern (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant's work is designed especia ...Show more
Henry V Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; Gary Taylor (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
First staged in 1599, Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Wri ...Show more
Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. He is torn between his desires for the life of the body and the life of the mind, as represented by two women - the vulgar but lustrous Arabella and the refined but frigid Sue. This edition is based on the revised text of 1912.
Mary and the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have lately written...a tale, to illustrate an opinion of mine, that a genius will educate itself.' Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. Expressed most forcefully in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In short, ...Show more
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished' In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all his ...Show more
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes ...Show more
Persian Letters by Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?' Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the hedonism and financial crash of the Regency. In their letters home they report on visits to the theatre ...Show more
Plautus - Four Comedies - The Braggart Soldier; the Brothers Menaechmus; the Haunted House; the Pot of Gold by Plautus
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first professional playwright in history, Plautus was the creator of racy, raucous, hilarious plays that will make modern audiences laugh as much as the first Romans did. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, makin ...Show more
Plays and Petersburg Tales - Petersburg Tales; Marriage; the Government Inspector by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol; Christopher English (Editor, Translator); Richard Peace (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk benea ...Show more
Polybius - The Histories by Polybius
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Polybius' account of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule is a major source for the history of the years 220-146 BC. This new translation includes Books 1-5 in their entirety and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12 on the Roman constitution and historiography. It is accompanied by an ill ...Show more