The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.'
In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the bea ... 続きを読む
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world...Sing heavenly muse'
From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667, Pa ... 続きを読む
The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Ma ... 続きを読む
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most in ... 続きを読む
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.'
When Machiavelli's brief tr ... 続きを読む
Herodotus is not only known as the 'father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also ... 続きを読む
Gustave Flaubert; Mark Overstall; Margaret Mauldon
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368 ページ
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Paperback
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129 x 195 mm
刊行日
2008年04月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!'
When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will ... 続きを読む
Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the 'fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The ... 続きを読む
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'.
Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapp ... 続きを読む
If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of a ... 続きを読む
