The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings (Pope Alexander)(Paperback)

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings (Pope Alexander)(Paperback)

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics. Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose

Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings (Gourevitch Victor)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy, The Social Contract, and the extensive, late Considerations on the Government of Poland, as well as the important draft

The Satires of Horace and Persius (Horace)(Paperback)

Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings of Horace and Persius have had a powerful influence on later Western literature. The Satires of Persius are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy

Major Works - including poems, plays, and critical prose (Yeats W. B.)(Paperback / softback)

A unique selection of Yeats's major poems, plays, criticism and other prose writings, showing the connectedness of his literary output. Formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors

The Major Works (Pope Alexander)(Paperback)

Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in

This Proud and Savage Land (Cordell Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

The prelude to the classic Rape of the Fair Country from bestselling historical author Alexander

Pragmatism and Other Writings (James William)(Paperback)

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full

The Arachnean and Other Texts (Deligny Fernand)(Paperback)

The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is a collection of writings from the second half of the 1970s. In 1968 Deligny established a 'network' for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living: it was a milieu created out of a

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Scandal of the Century - and Other Writings (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings (De Pizan Christine)(Paperback / softback)

Fable of the Bees and Other Writings - Publick Benefits' (Mandeville Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

The Autobiography and Other Writings (Franklin Benjamin)(Paperback)

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity,

Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings (Alexander Christine)(Paperback)

In their collaborative early writings, the Bront�s created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and

The History of Middle-Earth 05: The Lost Road and Other Writings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien Christopher

The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion

Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings (Abelard)(Paperback / softback)

Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Paperback)

'The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language. Its whole meaning could be summed up somewhat as follows: What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one

Personal Writings (Ignatius Of Loyola)(Paperback / softback)

The writings of a major Christian thinker One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and unique spiritual thinker and visionary. The works gathered here provide a first-hand, personal introduction to this remarkable character: a man who

Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second

Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human (Still Judith)(Paperback)

Analyses Derrida's late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the SovereignWhat is man? This book examines Derrida's contribution to this long-standing philosophical and political debate, which has typically evoked a significant division between human beings and other animals

The Age of Alexander (Plutarch)(Paperback)

Plutarch's influential writings on the ancient worldPlutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers since the Renaissance. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men,

Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic (Corngold Stanley)(Paperback)

The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He

Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

A lively new translation of Rousseau's best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract, a work of political philosophy that has stirred vigorous debate ever since

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Anonymous)(Paperback)

In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language