The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of ... Read more
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At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful ... Read more
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Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in ... Read more
The contact with ...primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) '
Flowers look loveliest in their native soil ...plucked, they fade, And lo ... Read more
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Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...'
The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familia ... Read more
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Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The ... Read more
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A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.'
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is ba ... Read more
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Niccolo Machiavelli; Julia Conaway Bondanella; Peter E. Bondanella
Pages
448 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 196 mm
Pub date
Dec 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Discourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Co ... Read more
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Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Mor ... Read more
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every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk th ... Read more
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