Meno Charmides Laches Lysis 'Do please try to tell us what courage is...'
In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specif ... 続きを読む
You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.'
In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled ... 続きを読む
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and ... 続きを読む
Eugenia, Baroness M"nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, apparently ... 続きを読む
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
