Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen ... 続きを読む

His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-A ... 続きを読む

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, M ... 続きを読む

This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to ... 続きを読む

we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories o ... 続きを読む

Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly sav ... 続きを読む

The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's ... 続きを読む

Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, despair, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining come ... 続きを読む

To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surrou ... 続きを読む

しばしば「人間至上主義」と訳されるヒューマニズムとは何でしょうか。神の存在なくして道徳を語ることはできるのか。また、宗教なくして、人々の人生は意味あるものたりえるのでしょうか。これらの問いへの答えを導く一冊です。宗教的信仰心の必要性に関する論争を見直し、人生の価値と意味を検証しながら、ヒューマニズムは宗教の代わりを務めることができるのかという大きな問いに挑みます。     ... 続きを読む