Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Patrick Coleman; Angela Scholar
Pages
720 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 195 mm
Pub date
May 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achiev ... Read more
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War is merely the continuation of policy by other means' On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French dur ... Read more
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They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.' Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written ... Read more
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Francoi de La Rochefoucauld; E. H. Blackmore; A. M. Blackmore; Francine Giguere
Pages
400 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 195 mm
Pub date
May 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thin ... Read more
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Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who bu ... Read more
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Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais; David Coward
Pages
352 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 195 mm
Pub date
Jun 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with D ... Read more
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First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of T ... Read more
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Examines the origins of the Druids and the evidence for their beliefs and practices, in particular asking what can and can't be known about them
Explains how the nature of the Druid caste changed ... Read more
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the myt ... Read more
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I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both dir ... Read more
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