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

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictio ... 続きを読む

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of t ... 続きを読む

No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston, plunges i ... 続きを読む

I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to com ... 続きを読む

Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.' We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however ... 続きを読む

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The int ... 続きを読む