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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of ...Show more
Njal's Saga by Lee M. Hollander
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by Lee M. Hollander, with an Introduction by Thorsteinn Gylfason. Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first recounts the touching friends ...Show more
On Liberty and Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is the most important of Britain's nineteenth-century philosophers. His writings and activities were many and varied. The works reprinted in this volume were first published during a particularly prolific ten-year span, from 1859 to 1869. On Liberty (1859), Considerations on ...Show more
Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications, The Prince has direct relevance to the issu ...Show more
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine ...Show more
Scott's Last Expedition : Captain Scott by Captain Scott
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. 'Had we lived,' he wrote, 'I should have had a tale to tell of the ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. LAWRENCE
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: good
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1 ...Show more
Symposium and the Death of Socrates by Plato
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith. In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was At ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu; Arthur Waley (translator)
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: good
Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things forms the basis for a humane m ...Show more
The Art of War & The Book of Lord Shang by Sun Tzu
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2 ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto with The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Karl Marx
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyr ...Show more
The Concise Pepys by Samuel Pepys
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: very good
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a ...Show more