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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Works
Book SynopsisCollecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome''s finest orators, Cicero''s Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome''s Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literature and thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith. This selection demonstrates the diversity of his writings, and includes letters to friends and statesmen on Roman life and politics; the vitriolic Second Philippic Against Antony; and his two most famous philosophical treatises, On Duties and On Old Age - a celebration of his own declining years. Written at a time of brutal political and social change, Cicero''s lucid ethical writings formed the foundation of the Western liberal tradition in political and moral thought that continues to this day.This translation by Michael Grant conveys the elegance of Cicero''s writings. His introduction describes their social and political background, while maps, genealogical charts, timelines and a glossary place the works in context.Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman orator and statesman, was born at Arpinium to a wealthy local family. Having been educated in Rome, by 70 BC he had established himself as a leading barrister and was beginning a successful political career. Cicero received honours usually reserved only for the Roman aristocracy and was one of the greatest Roman orators.If you enjoyed Selected Works, you might like Suetonius'' The Twelve Caesars, also available in Penguin Classics.Table of ContentsIntroduction:1. Cicero against Tyranny by Jerome2. How to Live: Human Cooperation by Jerome3. Cicero as Writer and Speaker: Translator's Problems by Jerome4. The Fame of Cicero by JeromePart One: Against Tyranny1. Attack on Misgovernment: Against Verres, I2. Cicero's Life and Letters: Selection from his Correspondence3. Attack on an Enemy of Freedom: The Second Philippic against AntonyPart Two: How to Live4. A Practical Code of Behaviour: On Duties, III5. Cato the Elder on Old Age: On Old AgeAppendixesA. List of Surviving Works of CiceroB. Genealogical TablesC. Key to Technical TermsD. Maps: The Roman Empire, 51 B.C.; Central Italy; Greece and West of Asia Minor; Plan of RomeIndex of Personal Names
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Penguin Books Ltd Personal Narrative of a Journey to the
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the 'new continent'. The first to draw and speculate on Aztec art, to observe reverse polarity in magnetism and to discover why America is called America, his writings profoundly influenced the course of Victorian culture, causing Darwin to reflect: 'He alone gives any notion of the feelings which are raised in the mind on first entering the Tropics.'For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the Table of ContentsTranslated by Jason Wilson with an Introduction by Malcolm NicolsonMapHistorical Introduction by Malcolm NicolsonIntroduction by Jason WilsonAcknowledgmentsChronologyFurther ReadingPERSONAL NARRATIVEAuthor's IntroductionNotes
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Penguin Books Ltd The Sixteen Satires Revised Edition lxviii
Book SynopsisJuvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachersPerhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. 55-138 AD) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life. A member of the traditional land-owning class which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of dynamic outsiders, he offers equally savage portraits of decadent aristocrats; women interested only in 'rough trade' like actors and gladiators; and the jumped-up sons of panders and auctioneers. He constantly compares the corruption of his own generation with their stern upright forebears. And he makes us feel from within the deep humiliation of having to dance attendance on rich but odious patrons.Green's celebrated translation is fully annotated and clarifies all references and allusions in the text, making iTable of ContentsPREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITIONINTRODUCTIONSATIRE ISATIRE IISATIRE IIISATIRE IVSATIRE VSATIRE VISATIRE VIISATIRE VIIISATIRE IXSATIRE XSATIRE XISATIRE XIISATIRE XIIISATIRE XIVSATIRE XVSATIRE XVINOTESABBREVIATIONSSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
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Penguin Books Ltd The Saga of the Volsungs
Book SynopsisThe epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner''s Ring cycleWritten in thirteenth-century Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. It tells of the cursed treasure of the Rhine, a sword reforged and a magic ring of power, and at its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer, who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin''s Valkyries. One of the great books of world literature, the saga is an unforgettable tale of princely jealousy, unrequited love, greed, vengeance and the downfall of a dynasty. Translated with an Introduction by Jesse L. Byock
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Penguin Books Ltd Human Happiness
Book SynopsisCreated by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Writings
Book SynopsisThomas Carlyle was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1795. Intended by his family to become a Presbyterian minister, he was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment while at the University of Edinburgh and became a teacher instead. He later turned to literary work, publishing a life of Schiller and translations of Goethe in the 1820s. His first truly successful book was The French Revolution, which was followed by many others. He died in 1881.Alan Shelston was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester until his retirement in 2002.
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Oxford University Press Warsaw Tales
Book SynopsisWarsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus'' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city''s tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw''s past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city''s Nazi occupation, the post-war city in ruins and its rebuilding under the communist regime, and its new status as the capital of an independent Poland in 1989. With each story set in a specific part of the city, the collection becomes a guidebook to Warsaw''s temporal, spatial, and psychological geography.This collection features a wide variety of authors including Boleslaw Prus, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Ludwik Hering, Zofia Petersowa, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Orlos, Hanna Krall, Antoni Libera, Zbigniew Mentzel, Olga Tokarczuk, and Krzysztof Varga.
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Oxford University Press Inc The Art of War 361
Book SynopsisLike Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding,examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also relevant economic, political, and psychological factors. Indeed, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu regularly applied outside the realm of military theory. It is read avidly by Japanesebusinessmen and was touted in the movie Wall Street as the corporate raider's bible.Providing a much-needed translation of this classic, Samuel Griffith has made this powerful and unique work even more relevant to the modern world. Including an explanatory introduction and selected commentaries on the work, this edition makes Sun Tzu's timeless classic perfectly accessible to modern readers.Trade Review"The Art of War is among the greatest classics of military literature ever written. Sun Tzu warfare is as applicable today as when the book was written some 2,500 years ago....Pick up The Art of War and read it."--General A.M. Gray, Marine Corps Gazette "As a reflection of the Chinese mind, this little work is as relevant as any Confucian classic."--The Times (London) "Westerners have dozens of books to choose from if they want to learn about Japanese philosophy and military tactics....But when the Japanese, especially those in business, want information on the subject, many turn to an ancient Chinese, not Japanese, military manual, The Art of War....Shows managers how to be fearless in resolving conflicts."--Boardroom Reports "Shows managers how to be fearless in resolving conflicts."--Boardroom Reports "A brief tract on strategy that has been admired in China for centuries. Some of Mao Tse Tung's most eloquent thoughts are merely rehashes of Sun Tzu and his interpreters."--The Los Angeles Herald Examiner "Samuel Griffith's original and scholarly translation of The Art of War shows how good scholarship can make an easily readable translation that is much more useful to modern readers."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "I find this book to be an excellent complement to a traditional text. It illustrates key strategic concepts from an alternative perspective. Specifically, it effectively addresses: planning in a dynamic environment, importance of leadership and harmonious relations with subordinates, efficient use of resources, importance of internal and external assessments and decision making - ethics, reception, timliness, decision quality, etc."--Jeff Trailer, University of Houston
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Oxford University Press Plato Opera Vol. II
Book Synopsis(Par., Phil., Symp., Phdr.; Alc. I, II, Hipp., Am.) Edited by J. Burnet.
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Oxford University Press Livy Ab Urbe Condita Books XXXVIXL Latin text
Book SynopsisThis is the sixth volume in the Oxford Classical Texts series of Livy and contains a Latin text (without translation), together with full apparatus criticus and Latin introduction, of Books 36-40, which cover the period from 192 to 179 BC. This momentous era in the history of Republican Rome begins with the war with Antiochus, which resulted in Rome''s indirect control of Greece and Asia, and concludes with the death of Philip V of Macedon, foreshadowing the Third Macedonian War. During these years Rome also struggled for the increasing dominance of northern Italy and Spain. On the domestic front, Livy depicts this period as the beginning of Roman moral decline, as reflected in such events as the trials of the Scipios, the censorship of Cato, and the Bacchanalia. Since much of the account by Polybius is fragmentary, Livy''s narrative is the main source for the history of the period.Trade Reviewcommand of the material is ... reflected in his extensive bibliographic listing of persons cited. A welcome feature in this volume is the indexes ... marginal line numbers ... are also new. * Rebecca R. Harrison, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3. *preface is a helpful, current summary of the research and comparative evaluation of the sources. * Rebecca R. Harrison, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3. *
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Thucydides Volume II Books IVV.
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary of the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Books IV-V. 24 cover the years 425-421 BC and contain the Pylos-Spakteria narrative, the Delion Campaign, and Brasidas'' operations in the north of Greece. This volume ends with the Peace of Nikias and the alliance between Athens and Sparta. A valuable feature of this volume is the full thematic introduction which discusses such topics as Thucydides and Herodotus, Thucydides'' presentation of Brasidas, Thucydides and kinship, speech - direct and indirect - in IV-V. 24, Thucydides and epigraphy (including personal names), IV-V. 24 as a work of art: innovative or merely incomplete? Thucydides intended his work to be `an everlasting possession'' and the continuing importance of his work is undisputed. Simon Hornblower''s commentary, by translating every passage of Greek commented on, for thTrade ReviewReview from previous edition No one will dispute the brilliance of the author; few, if any, would have contemplated such a task, or done it better ... H.'s commentary is of enormous value, and will very likely last as long as Gomme's commentary, if not longer, as a primary point of reference for any serious endeavour to understand individual Thucydidean passages, as well as in this volume offering a valuable methodological approach that will give continuing impetus to further analysis ... for years to come, we will all turn to H. when we want to understand more about Thucydides, and much else besides. * The Classical Review *The commentary offers many valuable insights and observations ... scholars and students will consult H. with profit * Journal of Hellenistic Studies *Few, if any, can be more knowledgeable or versatile: every page pullulates with original, apposite and enlightening comments and ideas. No teacher of Thucydides or Greek history can afford to be without this book to hand. H's productive capacity and up-to-date mastery of the field is phenomenal ... school teachers have every reason to be indebted to him. * JACT Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; COMMENTARY ; Book IV ; Book V. 1-24
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The University of Chicago Press Three Discourses
Book SynopsisThe volume begins with the recent history of the discourses, first published as part of the anonymous 17th-century work, Horae Subsecivae. The editors present the complete texts of the discourse with full annotations and modernized spellings.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. 1: Hobbes and the Horae Subsecivae Pt. 2: Three Discourses by Thomas Hobbes Pt. 3: Hobbes and the Beginnings of Modern Political Thought Pt. 4: Statistical Wordprinting Bibliography Index
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James Clarke & Co. Ltd Discovering John PB
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReading this book is a moving experience. Equally, however, one comes away from having done so with a head brimming with new ideas and perspectives to return to the Gospel and see it again in a fresh light. John Ashton was a gifted exegete, who brought phenomenal scholarship, literary sensibility and insight, and a seasoning of delicious humour, to the task of interpreting the work of the gifted author of the Gospel of John. Wendy E.S. North, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham This volume provides a feast of ideas on John's Gospel from the latter career of John Ashton, a colossus of international Johannine scholarship. Particularly remarkable for its detailed and moving autobiographical account of his fifty-year engagement with the Fourth Gospel, its essays amplify and develop the insights, and exhibit the exegetical sensitivity, of Ashton's magisterial Understanding the Fourth Gospel. Every serious student of John's Gospel should read this book and absorb its wisdom. Philip F. Esler, Portland Chair in New Testament Studies, Director of the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation, University of GloucestershireTable of ContentsIntroduction by Christopher Rowland and Catrin H. Williams vii 1. Discovering the Gospel of John: A Fifty-Year Journey of Exploration 1 2. Really a Prologue? 64 3. John and the Johannine Literature: The Woman at the Well 84 4. Riddles and Mysteries 101 5. "Mystery" in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Fourth Gospel 113 6. The Johannine Son of Man: A New Proposal 131 7. Reflections on a Footnote 156 8. Browning on Feuerbach and Renan 170 John Ashton (13 June 1931 - 3 February 2016) by Christopher Rowland 182 Bibliography 187
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Columbia University Press Copyright Law Symposium 41
Book SynopsisThis volume collates the prizewinning essays in the 1990 and 1991 ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition in copyright law.
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Columbia University Press Super Polluters Tackling the Worldâ TmS Largest
Book SynopsisWith the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this year's anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. The pieces included here explore the fault lines in American society, including criminal justice, the recent election, and environmental issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief, WiredAcknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine EditorsDelusion Is the Thing with Feathers, by Mac McLelland, Audubon: Finalist—Feature WritingWorlds Apart, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine: Winner—Public InterestThe Revenge of Roger’s Angels, by Gabriel Sherman, New York: Finalist—ReportingThe List, by Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker: Finalist—Public InterestThe Improvisational Oncologist, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times Magazine: Finalist—ReportingTrump Days, by George Saunders, The New Yorker: Finalist—Feature WritingPresident Trump, Seriously and “Appetite for Destruction” and The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump, by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: Finalist—Columns and CommentaryDemocracies End When They Are Too Democratic, by Andrew Sullivan, New York: Finalist—Essays and CriticismThe Obama Doctrine, by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic: Finalist—ReportingYellowstone: Wild Heart of a Continent, by David Quammen, National Geographic: Finalist—Single-Topic IssueMy Four Months as a Private Prison Guard, by Shane Bauer, Mother Jones: Winner—ReportingBird in a Cage and The Ideology of Isolation and Giantess, by Rebecca Solnit, Harper’s Magazine: Winner—Columns and CommentaryLadies in Waiting, by Becca Rothfeld, The Hedgehog Review: Finalist—Essays and CriticismThe Reckoning, by Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly: Finalist—Columns and CommentaryListening for the Country, by Zandria F. Robinson, Oxford American: Finalist—Essays and CriticismPermissionsList of Contributors
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Penguin Books Ltd Venice An Interior
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPublisher's description. A spell-binding literary journey through the ancient and timeless maze of Venice. With characteristic thoughtfulness and elegance, Marías captures this city of contradictions, where glamour and squalor are layered one atop the other, and the truly native Venetians are a rare and elusive tribe. * Penguin *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Crane Wife A Memoir in Essays
Book Synopsis''Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous'' Roxane Gay''Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary'' Alexander CheeTen days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else''s life.In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets go of ''how life was supposed to be'' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. She writes about friends and lovers, ghosts and robots, grief and heartbreak, blood family and chosen family, and asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer uTrade ReviewOutstanding . . . An elegant masterpiece . . . Wry but also warm and generous -- Roxane GayThoughtful and fitfully funny . . . Across 17 confessional essays, we find [CJ] furtively spreading her grandparents' ashes at their old house in Martha's Vineyard, contemplating breast reduction surgery and reflecting on her relationships with a high-school boyfriend and a divorcee who is clearly still in love with his ex * Guardian, Best Memoirs of 2022 *Brilliant and beautiful . . . An absolute must-read -- Frances Cha, author of IF I HAD YOUR FACEHauser is refreshingly candid and self-aware. They're unafraid to get into the hard stuff-and it's that vulnerability that makes their writing so accessible. Simultaneously clever, heartfelt, and wrenching, The Crane Wife underlines the messy relationship we all have with love * TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 *Bold and brilliant and psychologically exquisite, CJ Hauser is a deeply gifted and generous writer. THE CRANE WIFE is enthralling -- Charlotte Fox Weber, author of WHAT WE WANTSometimes a viral essay is just a viral essay. Other times, as with Hauser's story of breaking off her engagement (written for The Paris Review), a piece that spoke to millions will lead to something bigger - in this case, an absorbing memoir in essays * New York Times Book Review, Editors' Pick *Funny and tender * Sun *After reading this memoir-in-essays by the warm, wise, wry, and wonderful CJ Hauser, author of the viral Paris Review essay "The Crane Wife," you'll have to go fix your face. Were you crying laughing or just crying? Both? Splash some cold water on your cheeks. That's it. Now, go forth in peace with a new understanding of what it means to live and love * Garden & Gun, Best Southern Books of 2022 *A deeply personal and vivacious memoir . . . eye-wateringly funny . . . [and] intensely introspective as she focuses on what she is looking for and what she feels is missing * Irish Examiner *Stunning and interrogative. . . Brilliant. . . Calling Hauser 'honest' and 'vulnerable' feels inadequate. She embraces and even celebrates her flaws, and she revels in being a provocateur. . . Much has been written on the themes Hauser excavates here, yet her perspective is singular, startlingly so. Many narratives still position finding the perfect match as a measure of whether we've led successful lives. The Crane Wife dispenses with that. For that reason, Hauser's worldview feels fresh and even radical * Oprah Daily *Intimate, all-too-relatable magic. Hauser writes like she's whispering hard-earned secrets to a friend, picking apart how she has been held hostage to her own fantasies about love and happiness in warm and vulnerable scenes. . . What a gift it is, to have the curtains lift and let us all in * Electric Lit *As Hauser grapples with the changing shape of her life story, it's fitting that the shape of each essay and, indeed, the shape of the collection itself, are self-consciously experimental in form. . . Reading The Crane Wife is a bit like following Hauser into the Mirror Maze, her voice as narrator guiding the way through and out. Whether writing about familial or cultural stories, each text becomes a mirror in which Hauser sees herself reflected back. And in her willingness to turn inward, to truly face herself, Hauser's essays open outward, becoming themselves mirrors into which readers might gaze * Ploughshares *I absolutely LOVED these essays. I knew I ought to ration myself to one a day in order to prolong the joy and fascination of them, but I just couldn't: I had to carry on reading and reading, like eating a whole packet of jelly babies in one sitting. What a fantastic, original, funny and touching voice! C J Hauser is a wondrous writer. This book will give so much happiness -- Cressida Connolly, author of AFTER THE PARTYCompassionate and funny and brave. The book is a masterclass in life writing, and a lesson in how to live a life outside the narratives that would contain us. CJ is a master story weaver. I was left wanting more, in the best way possible -- Charlie Gilmour, author of FeatherhoodIn The Crane Wife, Hauser undertakes a new way for her to tell stories from her life, playing with history and personal history, exploring the possible hidden truths in her family's past and her own. The result is like interconnected short stories but about her life, the person she is and was, maybe even the person she never knew herself to be. Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary. -- Alexander Chee, author of QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELThe Crane Wife more than delivers on the immense promise of the viral essay that served as its source. My goodness is it funny, but also so devastatingly honest and bracing. Reading it is like taking a long road trip with your wisest, sharpest friend and talking the entire way. -- R. Eric Thomas, bestselling author of Here For ItThe Crane Wife is brilliant and beautiful - the vulnerability of her viral essay is expanded to include immense humour, pondering and further misadventures of the heart. An absolute must-read. I will be gifting this book all year long -- Frances Cha, internationally bestselling author of IF I HAD YOUR FACEIn this perceptive and probing work, Hauser brilliantly parses the myths that shaped her understanding of love. . . Sparkling. . . A thrillingly original deconstruction of desire and its many configurations * Publishers Weekly, starred review *Hauser is a delightful and agile writer, capable of speaking in multiple registers, but what all of her essays have in common is honesty, wisdom, a certain loopiness-she's an old soul with a fresh perspective and an energetic, wandering mind. The result is an imaginative and beautiful memoir, one that'll be passed through the secret sisterhood of crane wives for years. -- Jennifer SeniorReaders looking for something a little different in a memoir will not be disappointed. The strongest essays exemplify Hauser's keen awareness about life so far: things don't always work out as planned, love is complicated, and trusting your gut is, sometimes, the best option. * Library Journal *Perceptive and witty * Shelf Awareness *Intimate, witty and beautifully crafted * Elle *"I am a kind of breakup pro," Hauser writes late in this lively, thoughtful, and often funny set of personal essays-at a point when the reader has learned much about how unlucky in love she's been. . . Hauser makes a welcome effort to talk about both love and culture in unconventional ways. . . A smart, inviting, and candid clutch of self-assessments * Kirkus Reviews *A staccato, funny, barbed, metaphor-laced, and thought-provoking memoir-in-essays. . . No matter her focus, Hauser's deductions about human nature are always arresting, delving, fresh, and exhilarating * Booklist *While it's always difficult to summarize an essay collection, what holds The Crane Wife together is Hauser's unpacking of emotional truths: who do we love, and why, and what happens when they're gone? When we're alone? When we forget what it was like to love them? * LitHub *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Happy Reader 19
Book SynopsisFor avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.The concept of the magazine is simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one classic work of literature from an array of surprising and invigorating angles.
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University of Notre Dame Press Defense of Galileo
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University of Wisconsin Press I Give You Half the Road
Book SynopsisOnce considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and a violent conflict. Carol Spindel provides an intimate glimpse into this turbulent period by weaving together the daily lives and paths of five of her neighbours.Trade ReviewWritten in an accessible and engaging narrative nonfiction style, this book shares the story of five young people who come of age during the tumultuous democratic transition in Ivory Coast. Spindel's honest storytelling, close friendships with everyday Ivoirians, and more than thirty-five years of experience in the country shine in this riveting account." - William Moseley, Macalester College
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Yale University Press Fabulous Monsters
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dotted with droll little drawings by the author, Fabulous Monsters invites us to recall the intriguing, often tangential characters that we’ve met in literature and that, in certain cases, have accompanied us on life’s journey. . . . Readers will be glad to have revisited old acquaintances (Queequeg or Job) and shaken hands again with those (Heidi’s grandfather or Long John Silver) they may not know well.’—Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal“A charming and essential book.”—Greg Garrett, Spectator“In art and words, a book lover honors the characters he can’t forget.”—New York Times Book Review “One could go on quoting Manguel for a long time. There's something eye-catching on every page. Literature, he tells or reminds us, can be simultaneously disturbing and consoling”—Alan Massie, Literary Review“Alberto Manguel’s book Fabulous Monsters is designed to be charming”—Emma Smith, Times Literary Supplement“In Fabulous Monsters, Alberto Manguel argues that imaginary characters portray our own lives. Yes, we say, this is how we are, this is what we do to one another, this is true. That, perhaps, is where literature can help most.”—Salman Rushdie
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Zondervan Undaunted Joy
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WW Norton & Co Byrons Poetry and Prose A Norton Critical
Book SynopsisByron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile, and travels.Trade Review"This careful and textually-conservative edition will serve as an excellent introductory volume to Byron for students. . . . Alice Levine is to be congratulated on bringing the Norton Byron into the twenty-first century with a resounding bang." -- Byron JournalTable of Contentsclick here for contents page
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan The Good Man of
Book SynopsisIncludes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Book Of Nonsense Rc Routledge Classics
Book SynopsisFrom the benighted Old Man with a Beard to the erudite Perpendicular Purple Polly, Edward Lear''s world is inhabited by a bewildering variety of oddities. One of the world''s most loved writers, Lear''s verse has delighted whole generations of readers. Here, after 140 years, is the original edition of A Book of Nonsense, from the original publishers. Complete with Lear''s own remarkable illustrations, this treasure trove of nonsense is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound for generations more!Trade Review'I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors.' - John Ruskin'A magic song-writer, with something like a reverence for the absurd.' - Times Literary Supplement'I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors.' - John RuskinTable of ContentsA book of Nonsense, Publisher's Note, Nonsense poems.
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The University of Michigan Press Ghosts and the Overplus
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Select Letters Cambridge Greek and Latin
Book SynopsisProfessor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero's letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and in the upper forms at schools, and offers them a representative introduction to one of the most varied and most important literary correspondences in any language. In choosing letters for inclusion the editor concentrates on Cicero as a man and writer and on his relationship with his contemporaries, but he has also included letters which deal with people and events of special significance in the turbulent political history of the period. The edition includes an introduction, the text of the letters with critical notes, and a commentary which gives help with linguistic problems as well as elucidating the historical and social background.Table of ContentsPreface; Bibliographical note; Introduction; The letters; Commentary; Appendixes; Concordances; Indexes to the commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Juvenal Satires Book I Cambridge Greek and Latin
Book SynopsisSatire was a genre of poetry invented and developed by the Romans. When it came into Juvenal's hands, he stamped his mark upon it: indignation. His angry voice had an overwhelming influence upon later European satirists and persists in modern forms of satire. In this new commentary, Susanna Morton Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and illuminates his appropriation of the 'grand style' of declamatory rhetoric and epic poetry for his indignant persona in Satires 1â5, including the notorious second Satire. The commentary on each of the Satires is followed by an essay which offers an interpretation of the poem, including a synthesis of recent critical thought. These essays, together with the overview in the Introduction, present the first integrated reading of Book I as an organic structure.Trade Review'… well-balanced and easy to consult … recommended not only to established scholars of Roman literature but also to students reading Juvenal.' ARCTOSTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Juvenal and satire; 2. The genre of Roman verse satire; 3. The origins of Roman satire; 4. Juvenal's predecessors; 5. Juvenal's life; 6. The characteristics of Juvenal's satire; 7. Juvenal's style; 8. Juvenal's metre; 9. An overview of Book I; 10. Juvenal and his influence from antiquity to the present; 11. Text and manuscripts; D. IVNII IVVENALIS SATVRAE LIBER PRIMVS; Commentary; Abbreviations; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Tacitus Dialogus de oratoribus
Book SynopsisAn edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. The commentary is designed to elucidate problems of language and reference in the text and to put the reader in the picture as regards late first-century AD society and literature.Trade Review'… a welcome introduction and commentary on the least studied Tacitean writing, the Dialogus de oratoribus.' Acta Philologica Fennica'… the best text yet produced of the Dialogus.' Scholia'… the commentary is a most elegant piece of work …'. Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. The background; 2. Tacitus' career; 3. The Agricola; 4. Fame; 5. The state of oratory; 6. The Dialogus; 7. Authenticity; 8. Date of composition; 9. The style of the work; 10. The lay-out of the Dialogus; 11. Characters and characterization; 12. The transmission of the text; CORNELI TACITI DIALOGVS DE ORATORIBVS; Commentary.
£30.99
Faber & Faber Government of the Tongue
Book SynopsisThe title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the governor?Seamus Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work is responsive to such strains and tensions.
£11.69
Faber & Faber LOVE HATE
Book SynopsisHate skews reality even more than love.In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi''s acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka''s relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own: growing up and growing old; betrayal and loyalty; imagination and repression; marriage and fatherhood. The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi''s life savings - a man who provoked both admiration and disgust, obsession and revulsion, love and hate.
£9.49
Faber & Faber What Happened
Book Synopsis''No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.'' William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi''s new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiableand much-lovedauthor. From social media to the ancient classics, from appraisals of David Bowie to Georges Simenon to Keith Jarrett, this is the latest literary ''event'' in a unique body of work that displays Kureishi''s characteristic boundless curiosity and wit. What Happened? is as much about the very fact of Kureishi's catholic appetite for culture as his observations and insights themselves, and any new book in his oeuvre is a justification for celebration.
£10.44
Faber & Faber The Call of the Tribe
Book SynopsisIn The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.
£17.09
Faber & Faber The Lives of the Saints
Book SynopsisFrom A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit-play, The Steward of Christendom; from his first Costa Book of the Year novel The Secret Scripture to his second, Days Without End, a decade later, Sebastian Barry's writing career has been as long and varied as it has extraordinary.Intimate, revealing and generous of heart, these three lectures - written and delivered as part of his three year tenure as the Laureate for Irish fiction - reflect on his life and career so far, some of the formative moments and people he's met along the way, and the ongoing importance of creativity.
£13.49
Harvard University Press History of the Wars Volume II
Book SynopsisHistory of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history, with much information about peoples, places, and special events. Powerful description complements careful narration. Procopius is just to the empire’s enemies and boldly criticizes emperor Justinian.
£23.70
Harvard University Press History of Rome Volume II
Book SynopsisThe only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books, 1–10, 21–45 (except parts of 41 and 43–45), fragments, and short summaries remain.
£23.70
Harvard University Press History of Rome Volume III
Book SynopsisThe only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books, 1–10, 21–45 (except parts of 41 and 43–45), fragments, and short summaries remain.
£23.70
Harvard University Press Geography Volume VII
Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BCca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.
£23.70
Harvard University Press Apology. De Spectaculis. Minucius Felix Octavius
Book SynopsisTertullian founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with Church practice, defended Christianity, attacked heresy, and pondered morality. Octavius by Minucius Felix, an early Christian writer of unknown date, is a debate between a believer and non-believer that depicts Roman religion and society.
£23.70
Harvard University Press History Volume I
Book SynopsisAmmianus, a Greek from Antioch, served many years as an officer in the Roman army, then settled in Rome, where he wrote a Latin history of the Roman Empire. The portion that survives covers twenty-five years in the historian's own lifetime: the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens.
£23.70
Harvard University Press Isocrates Volume III
Book SynopsisThe importance of Isocrates (436338 BC) for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. Twenty-one discourses by Isocrates survive; these include political essays, treatises on education and on ethics, and speeches for legal cases. Nine letters, more on public than private matters, are also extant.
£23.70
Harvard University Press The Learned Banqueters Volume III
Book SynopsisA series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.Trade ReviewOne of the main advantages of Olson's new edition is that it is reader-friendly. When The Learned Banqueters quotes from a known author, Olson follows the text of, and gives the reference to, the best modern edition, making it easy for the reader to look up the citation in its original context...Olson's translation is largely excellent, and captures the spirit of the different authors quoted. -- Helen Morales * Times Literary Supplement *
£23.70
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Emergence of Quaker Writing Dissenting
Book SynopsisAmong the radical sects which flourished during the tumultuous years of the English Revolution, the early Quakers were particularly aware of the power of the written word to promote their prophetic visions?and unorthodox beliefs.This collection of new essays by literary scholars and historians looks at the diversity of seventeenth-century Quaker writing, examining its rhetoric, its polemical strategies, its purposeful use of the print medium, and the heroism and vehemence of its world vision.Table of ContentsPatterns of Quaker authorship, 1652-56, Kate Peters; the war of the lamb - George Fox and the apocalyptic discourse of revolutionary Quakerism, David Loewenstein; Margaret Fell Fox and feminist literary history - a mother in Israel calls to the Jews, Judith Kegan Gardiner; hidden things brought to light - enthusiasm and Quaker discourse, Nigel Smith; from seeker to finder - the singular experience of Mary Penington, Norman T. Burns; handmaids of the Lord and mothers in Israel - early vindications of Quaker women's prophecy, Elaine Hobby; no man's copy - the critical problem of Fox's Journal; the politic and the polite in Quaker prose - the case of William Penn, N.H. Keeble; Joseph Besse and the Quaker culture of suffering, John R. Knott; early Quakerism - a historian's afterword, Ann Hughes.
£48.99
Hachette Australia On Politics and Stuff
Book SynopsisThis book is quite possibly the most comprehensive book on Australian politics ever written. That''s right, it covers BOTH houses of parliament.We''ll take you inside the halls of power. And if we can''t actually get inside because of security, we''ll do some very fun speculating on what might be in there.One thing we know for sure is that this book is unputdownable. Something went wrong with the printing and it''s all sticky.
£9.89
Edinburgh University Press The Talisman
Book SynopsisA new edition of The Talisman, the second of Tales of the Crusaders, which is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189-92)
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus
Book SynopsisThis is the first of the 2-volume introduction and notes which Scott wrote to accompany the first complete edition of his fiction. His notes explain both use of language and incidents in his novels. The Edinburgh Edition includes a scholarly introduction, full addenda, corrigenda and explanatory notes.
£90.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
Book SynopsisAn indispensable work for any student of the Old South. The book is not merely indispensable; it is challenging and controversial.New York TimesFor decades Frederick Law Olmsted (18221903) designed parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed, studied, and protected today. His plans and professional correspondence offer a rich source for understanding his remarkable contribution to the quality of urban life in this country and the development of the profession of landscape architecture. Olmsted's writings also provide a unique record of society and politics in postCivil War America. Historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners, students, and citizens' groups continue to turn to Olmsted for ideas about the development and conservation of green spaces in urban areas. The Olmsted Papers project is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and ReTrade ReviewOlmsted the man belongs to his own time, but his work and words continue to have meaning today... The editors are preserving a life and a work instructive for the future as well as of the past. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
£68.85
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Quarry
Book SynopsisThe Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces.Trade Review"Reaching back through Hawthorne, Dickinson and beyond, Susan Howe taps a stream of American thinking that is as as clear and fresh as a draught of well water. She is our conscience, our voice, our song." -- John Ashbery"No other poet now writing has Howe's power to bring together narrative and lyric, scholarship and historical speculation, found text and pure invention." -- Marjorie Perloff"Universally recognized as a major poet, Susan Howe should also be known as the most innovative, the most thrilling essayist writing today." -- Eliot Weinberger"Marvelous with a visionary apprehension of what is to come, telepathic communication with past poetries, histories, lives, material and spiritual realities." -- Jonathan Creasey - The Los Angeles Review of Books"Howe's brilliant, idiosyncratic essay is—like much of her work—a combination of fierce rigor and deep generosity. Howe unlocks." -- Ben Lerner"She manages to balance the most cerebral passages with a sharp eye for just the right detail...Howe is not for casual readers, but serious ones will be amply rewarded." -- Publishers Weekly"For fans of Howe's poetry and readers fascinated by artistic process." -- Kirkus Reviews"Howe's words give the impression of echoing another, hidden poetry of which we catch only fragments, like an opera sung in another room—except that the other room is death, or history, or the ineffable." -- Geoffrey O'Brien - The Village Voice"The end result is something of a photographic negative: history refreshed and personalized by virtue of its own estrangement." -- Dustin Illingworth - 3:AM"Monomania has its rewards—an incantatory power that shines through. Howe's images, being historical as well as biographical, have the eerie shading of ghosts half-believed in, giving a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere reminiscent of Borges at his sharpest." -- Kirkus Reviews"An important voice in contemporary literature, a signal inheritor of an American poetic tradition. Like Dickinson, her Massachusetts muse, Howe turns the English of a self steeped in books such that every word, as in Scripture, glows with an almost moral quality." -- Artforum"As a poet and a critic she articulates precisely those soundings of uncertainty, those zones of failed or impaired utterance that constitute the literary history of America's uneasy commerce with the word." -- Richard Sieburth - The Times Literary Supplement"Susan Howe is a kind of poststructuralist visionary." -- Bruce Campbell"One of America's foremost poets." -- Publishers Weekly
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