Martial's epigrams target every level of Roman society, from slave to aristocrat. This newly translated selection is as punchy and close to the knuckle as the originals.
One of only two substanti ... 続きを読む
A major new translation of Homer's great epic poem, that out of an episode from the Trojan war encapsulates the great tragedy of war, and the meaning of life and death.
Anthony Verity's rendering ... 続きを読む
A unique edition of the Book of Common Prayerthat brings together the texts of three different versions - 1549, 1559, and 1662 - to provide a panorama of the history of ritual in England from ... 続きを読む
The Thrive in Bioscience revision guides are written to help students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience. Each title encourages the reader to follow four steps to maximise their lear ... 続きを読む
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, dar ... 続きを読む
To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.'
Godwin's Political Justice is the founding text of phi ... 続きを読む
This is the story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the ... 続きを読む
Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.'
With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular work ... 続きを読む
Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...'
In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passion ... 続きを読む
