The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on w ... Read more
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First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, ... Read more
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Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?'
Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic developmen ... Read more
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It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a ... Read more
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With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring ... Read more
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth cen ... Read more
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Meno Charmides Laches Lysis 'Do please try to tell us what courage is...'
In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specif ... Read more
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You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.'
In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled ... Read more
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In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and ... Read more
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Eugenia, Baroness M"nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, apparently ... Read more
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