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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and ...Show more
London Labour and the London Poor by HENRY MAYHEW
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, spe ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Roman poet Ovid's "Metamorphoses", completed around 8AD, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his theme of transformation.
Mohammed (Wordsworth Classics) by Washington IRVING
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worship false gods instead. As the last and greatest prophet of the one and only God, it was his task to abolish ...Show more
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of ...Show more
Njal's Saga by Lee M. Hollander
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by Lee M. Hollander, with an Introduction by Thorsteinn Gylfason. Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first recounts the touching friends ...Show more
On War (Abridged) by Carl Von Clausewitz; J. J. Graham (Translator); F. N. Maude (Revised by)
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Category: Fiction | 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
Prince by NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications, The Prince has direct relevance to the issu ...Show more
Republic by Plató; John Llewelyn Davies (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Classics of World Literature
The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western culture. This new translation captures the dramatic realism, poetic beauty, intellectual vitality, and e ...Show more
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine ...Show more
Scott's Last Expedition : Captain Scott by Captain Scott
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Category: Fiction | 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
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. LAWRENCE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: good
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1 ...Show more