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
This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are ... 続きを読む
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What uni ... 続きを読む
Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchm ... 続きを読む
The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political si ... 続きを読む
