Oliver Goldsmith; Henry Fielding; David Garrick; George Colman; John O'Keefe; Nigel Wood
Pages
448 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 197 mm
Pub date
Jul 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats
This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's ... Read more
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Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, despair, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining come ... Read more
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To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surrou ... Read more
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Awarded the 2011 Morris D. Forkosch Award for Humanist Book of the Year
Explores humanism as a positive alternative to religion
Examines the history of humanism as a movement up to ... Read more
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?'
Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictio ... Read more
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.'
In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of t ... Read more
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No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.'
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston, plunges i ... Read more
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I am not a man, I am dynamite.'
Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to com ... Read more
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Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.'
We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however ... Read more
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The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The int ... Read more
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