トマス・アクィナス（c.1225-74年）は、今も西洋思想に絶大な影響を与え続けているスコラ学の代表的神学者で哲学者です。初心者向けにキリスト教の神学のすべてを体系づけて記した『神学大全』を著し、多くの論叢を呼びました。本書では、歴史的背景を踏まえ、当時の教会や文化を描き出し、今日的な論争でも引き合いに出されることが多いアクィナスの思想をわかりやすく解説します。(cf. Selected Phil ... 続きを読む
A new contemporary look for John Gross's celebrated anthology of essays
The largest, most comprehensive anthology of essays in print
Includes both American and British essayists
Up to date - incl ... 続きを読む
A contemporary new look for a celebrated anthology of Scottish short stories
Stories are chosen by prize-winning poet and writer of short stories Douglas Dunn - a 'reader with real taste', who ha ... 続きを読む
A new contemporary look for D. J. Enright's widely praised anthology
An intriguing and not always melancholic collection of insights on a subject of universal concern and fascination
Extracts r ... 続きを読む
A new contemporary look for Christopher Ricks's widely praised anthology
A selection that shows Victorian verse at its best and most inspiring
560 poems by 115 poets
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New contemporary look for a bestselling collection of ghost stories
An enjoyable and wide-ranging anthology including some of the most frightening ghost stories ever written
Writers included: M ... 続きを読む
A key - and much studied - period of English literature
Gives the most comprehensive picture of the period available in a single volume
Represents previously neglected aspects of seventeenth-ce ... 続きを読む
Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone , both published in the 1860s. However, in a literary career spann ... 続きを読む
A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It sh ... 続きを読む
I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.'
This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire ... 続きを読む
