The Lives of the Poets
By: Samuel Johnson
4.05
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
3. The Waste Books
By: R.J. Hollingdale , Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
4.16
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an ex… read more
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- classics
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- 18th century
"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
4. Praise of Folly
By: Erasmus , Betty Radice , A.H.T. Levi
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist move… read more
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- history
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- essays
5. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
6. Letters on England
By: Voltaire , Leonard Tancock
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
After his three-year exile to England (1726-9) following imprisonment in the Bastille for his satir… read more
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7. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
8. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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9. On the Shortness of Life
By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more
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10. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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11. The Complete Fairy Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more
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12. The Prelude
By: William Wordsworth
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It… read more
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13. Philosophical Dictionary
By: Voltaire , None
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionaryis a series of short essays, hortatory and propagandist, over an… read more
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14. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
15. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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16. The Nightingale and the Rose
By: Oscar Wilde
2.80
Format: None pages,
An allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it em… read more
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17. The Life of Samuel Johnson
By: James Boswell
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Hardcover
Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ide… read more
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19. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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20. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
21. The Lives of the Poets
By: Samuel Johnson
4.05
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Here is a substantial selection of Samuel Johnson's magisterial and unforgettable portraits of the … read more
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