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Eugene Onegin by A.S. Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in vain to imitate the most inimitable features of the original, while masking many of ...Show more
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his ...Show more
Heart of the Antarctic and South by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of a third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reached the Antarctic mainland at all). Yet it is the second ...Show more
Histories by Herodotus
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: very good
Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilom ...Show more
Holy Qur'An by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, though ...Show more
How I Found Livingstone by Henry Morton Stanley
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Henry Morton Stanley's greeting to the Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' is to exploration what Holmes's 'Elementary, my dear Watson' is to detective fiction. It took place in a remote African settlement when a travelling correspondent for the New York Herald suc ...Show more
Human, All Too Human: & Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering serie ...Show more
Jewish Antiquities by JOSEPHUS Flavius
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Whiston's translation, with an Introduction by Brian McGing. The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books o ...Show more
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty - are timeless, as are the reputations of its major characters, Arthur, Merlin, Guenever and Launcelot. Mal ...Show more
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and ...Show more
London Labour and the London Poor by HENRY MAYHEW
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, spe ...Show more
Mohammed (Wordsworth Classics) by Washington IRVING
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worship false gods instead. As the last and greatest prophet of the one and only God, it was his task to abolish ...Show more