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Mrs Dalloway
Häftad, 2025
107 kr
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'For there she was.'Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of Septimus Smith, a poor young man suffering from …
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Häftad, 2015
123 kr
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'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied'As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, …
The Complete Writings
Av Zhuāngzï
Häftad, 2024
147 kr
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'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.'The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC -- is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important source for early Daoist …
The Prince
Häftad, 2008
95 kr
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'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.'When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a …
Middlemarch
Av George Eliot, David Carroll
Häftad, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
107 kr
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'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot …
The Histories
Av Polybius
Häftad, 2010
138 kr
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'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward …
Bleak House
Av Charles Dickens, Stephen Gill
Häftad, 2008
118 kr
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society …
The Trial
Av Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson
Häftad, 2009
135 kr
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'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.'A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is …
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Av Oscar Wilde, Joseph Bristow
Häftad, 2008
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
99 kr
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'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.'When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in …
Greek Lives
Av Plutarch, Philip A. Stadter
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
158 kr
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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 in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' …
Six Tragedies
Av Seneca
Häftad, 2010
154 kr
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Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * ThyestesSeneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. …
Macbeth
The New Oxford Shakespeare
Av William Shakespeare, John Jowett
Häftad, 2024
95 kr
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'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a psychologically and supernaturally …
The Mabinogion
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
135 kr
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'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.' 'Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?'Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous …
Pride and Prejudice
Häftad, 2019
96 kr
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"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. …
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom
Häftad, 2019
93 kr
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...Frankenstein is the most …
The Count of Monte Cristo
Av Alexandre Dumas, David Coward
Häftad, 2008
147 kr
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'people get out of prison, and when they get out, and their name is Edmond Dantès, they take their revenge!'Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Château d'If. Having endured years of incarceration, he …
The Peloponnesian War
Av Thucydides
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
170 kr
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'The greatest historian that ever lived'Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved …
Mary Barton
Av Elizabeth Gaskell, Shirley Foster
Häftad, 2008
119 kr
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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the …
Gulliver's Travels
Av Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson m. fl.
Häftad, 2008, 9-12 år
96 kr
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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but …
Revelations of Divine Love
Häftad, 2015
135 kr
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'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her account of the revelations that she …
Walden
Av Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender
Häftad, 2008
119 kr
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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account …
The Red and the Black
A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition. Subtitled `A Chronicle of …
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Av William James, Matthew Bradley
Häftad, 2012
158 kr
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'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.'The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves, the difference between a …
Roman Lives
A Selection of Eight Lives
Av Plutarch, Philip A. Stadter
Häftad, 2008
182 kr
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Marcus CatoSullaAemilius PaullusPompeyThe GracchiMariusJulius CaesarAnthony'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.'In the eight …
The Waves
Av Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw
Häftad, 2014
107 kr
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'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.'Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows …
The Lost World
Av Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Duncan
Häftad, 2008
93 kr
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`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.'Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger, a scientific expedition …
Treasure Island
Av Robert Louis Stevenson, Peter Hunt
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
93 kr
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'there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...'When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor's sudden death is the beginning of one of the most …
Anna Karenina
Av Leo Tolstoy
Häftad, 2016
135 kr
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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and …
Moby-Dick
Av Herman Melville, Hester Blum
Häftad, 2022
118 kr
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"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of …
A Tale of Two Cities
Av Charles Dickens, Andrew Sanders
Häftad, 2008
81 kr
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As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point …
