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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 familiar, ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
Niccolo Machiavelli; Julia Conaway Bondanella; Peter E. Bondanella
ページ
448 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
128 x 196 mm
刊行日
2008年12月
シリーズ
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
