the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bri ... 続きを読む

No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achiev ... 続きを読む

War is merely the continuation of policy by other means' On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French dur ... 続きを読む

They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.' Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written ... 続きを読む

Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thin ... 続きを読む

Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who bu ... 続きを読む

The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with D ... 続きを読む

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of T ... 続きを読む

紀元前2世紀頃のガリア、イギリス、アイルランドなどヨーロッパ西部で初めて注目を集めて以来、2000年以上も語られてきたドルイドは、その長い歴史にもかかわらず、つかみどころのない存在です。ドルイドは得体が知れず不可解であるとしさまざまに解釈されてきました。本書では、ドルイドの起源をたどり、彼らの信条と慣習を示す痕跡を検証し、三種類に分かれていたとされるドルイドのカースト制度がどのような変貌を遂げ、今 ... 続きを読む

The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the myt ... 続きを読む