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| "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation from Czechoslovakia to Poland; addressing crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism; exploring the Holocaust and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively; and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker Kershaw allows us as never before to understand Hitler's motivation and impact 'Magisterial anyone who wishes to understand the third reich must read Kershaw for no on has done more to lay bare Hitler's morbid psyche' Niall Ferguson Sunday Telegraph 'An achievement of the very highest order a marvellous book' Michael Burleigh Financial Times 'No previous biographer has examined Hitler's devilishness in Kershaw's detail his book is so comprehensive so richly documented and so judicious that it will not soon be superseded' Daniel Johnson Daily Telegraph Ian Kershaw's other books include Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis Making Friends with Hitler Fateful Choices Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-4 and The End Hitler's Germany 1944-45 Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize"
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| "Italian Food by Elizabeth David (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "In Italian Food Elizabeth David was the first to help us understand the real country cooking of ItalyItalian Food was an inspiration to British cooks when it was first published in 1954 - and it remains so to this day Embracing the variety richness and vibrancy of Italian cooking with particularly reference to regional variation Elizabeth David provides a magnificent and inspiring collection of favourite dishes as well as those more rarely encountered With straightforward recipes for meals such as Piedmontese cheese fondue fettuccine with fresh tomato sauce and chicken breasts with ham and cheese Elizabeth David brings us the authentic taste of Italian food 'Elizabeth David's clear and unpretentious directions for the enjoyment of good food have never been surpassed' Daily Mail 'Not only did she transform the way we cooked but she is a delight to read' Express on Sunday 'Britain's most inspirational food writer' Independent 'When you read Elizabeth David you get perfect pitch There is an understanding and evocation of flavours colours scents and places that lights up the page' Guardian 'Not only did she transform the way we cooked but she is a delight to read' Express on Sunday Elizabeth David (1913-1992) is the woman who changed the face of British cooking Having travelled widely during the Second World War she introduced post-war Britain to the sun-drenched delights of the Mediterranean and her recipes brought new flavours and aromas into kitchens across Britain After her classic first book Mediterranean Food followed more bestsellers including French Country Cooking Summer Cooking French Provincial Cooking Italian Food Elizabeth David's Christmas and At Elizabeth David's Table"
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| "The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The Consolations of Philosophy is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to lifeAlain de Botton bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life Here then are Socrates Epicurus Seneca Montaigne Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all lack of money the pain of love inadequacy anxiety; the fear of failure and the pressure to conform'Singlehandedly de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose helping us live our lives' Independent'No doubt about it philosophy is the new rock and roll and Alain de Botton is its Colonel Tom Parker A pleasure to read And good writing like good philosophy is always a consolation' John Banville Irish Times'Few discussions on the great philosophers can have been so entertaining an ingenious imaginative book' Humphrey Carpenter Sunday Times'Witty thoughtful entertaining a stylish book which manages to make philosophy both enjoyable and relevant' Anthony Clare Literary Review'Gentle helpful and humane De Botton's instinct is surely right if we are to bring philosophy to life we should look again at those thinkers who have sought to be not clever or paradoxical but simply wise' Roger Scruton Mail on Sunday"
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| "The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform The World by David Deutsch (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "In our search for truth how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics moral values and human welfare But will progress end either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue indefinitely? In this profound and seminal book David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding taking in the Infinity Hotel supernovae and the nature of optimism to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility"
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| "Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millionsGulag is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West Using these as well as her own original research in NKVD archives and interviews with survivors Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system from its origins under the tsars to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost It is a gigantic feat of investigation synthesis and moral reckoning"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Daniel C Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? Here Daniel Dennett provides an impassioned defense of free will But rather than freedom being an eternal unchanging condition of our existence in reality he reveals it has evolved just like life on the planet and the air we breathe Evolution is the key to resolving this greatest of philosophical questions - and to understanding our place in the world as uniquely free agents Dennett shows that far from there being an incompatibility between contemporary science and the traditional vision of freedom and morality it is only recently that science has advanced to the point where we can see how we came to have our unique kind of freedom 'A serious book with a brilliant message' Matt Ridley author of The Red Queen 'Powerful and ingenious The definitive argument that the human mind is a product of evolution' John Gray Independent 'A book of sparkling brio and seemingly effortless panache Dennett at his best is as good as it gets' Spectator Daniel C Dennett is one of the most original and provocative thinkers in the world A brilliant polemicist and philosopher he is famous for challenging unexamined orthodoxies and an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement His books include Brainstorms Brainchildren Elbow Room Breaking the Spell Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Freedom Evolves"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders (Paperback,..." |
| "The Macdonald sisters -- Alice Georgiana Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes with little prospect of social advancement But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones Edward Poynter President of the Royal Academy and the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin In telling their remarkable story Judith Flanders displays the fluidity of Victorian society and explores the life of the family in the 19th century"
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| "Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "'A masterpiece In its field it is the best book ever' GuardianWinner of the Wolfson Prize for history Reformation Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture that marked the beginning of the modern world At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith the Reformation tore the western world apart Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events Diarmaid MacCulloch's history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests monarchs scholars and politicians from the zealous Martin Luther nailing his Theses to the door of a Wittenburg church to the radical Ignatius of Loyola founder of the Jesuit order; from Thomas Cranmer martyred for his reforms to the ambitious Philip II unwavering in his campaign against Europe's 'heretics' Weaving together the many strands of Reformation and Counter-Reformation ranging widely across Europe and even to the new world MacCulloch also reveals as never before how these upheavals affected everyday lives - overturning ideas of love sex death and the supernatural and shaping the modern age 'Magisterial and eloquent' David Starkey 'A triumph of human sympathy' Blair Worden Sunday Telegraph 'From politics to witchcraft from the liturgy to sex; the sweep of European history covered here is breathtakingly panoramic This is a model work of history' Noel Malcolm Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year 'Monumental Reformation is set to become a landmark' Lisa Jardine Observer Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University His Thomas Cranmer won the Whitbread Biography Prize the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize He is also the author of A History of Christianity The First Three Thousand Years"
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| "Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society by Peter Trudgill (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "This is a classic book on a fascinating subject Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak These range from gender environment age race class region and politics Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish He has added a fascinating chapter on the development of a language as a result of a non-native speaker's use of it Compelling and authoritative this new edition of a bestselling book is set to redraw the boundaries of the study of sociolinguistics"
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| "The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "'The Penguin History of Europe series is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe world known as the 'Dark Ages' often seen as a time of barbarism was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be createdChris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period encompassing peoples such as Goths Franks Vandals Byzantines Arabs Anglo-Saxons and Vikings was central to the development of our history and culture From the collapse of the Roman Empire to the establishment of new European states and from Ireland to Constantinople the Baltic to the Mediterranean this landmark work makes sense of a time of invasion and turbulence but also of continuity creativity and achievement"
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| "The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "'Only with the greatest of simplifications for the sake of convenience can we say Africa In reality except as a geographical term Africa doesn't exist' Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career In astudy that avoids the official routes palaces and big politics he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa' and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination from the intoxications of freedom from war and from politics as theft"
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| "Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Winner of the Wolfson History Prize Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world Prussia began as a medieval backwater but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire until it was finally abolished by the Allies after the Second World War With great flair and authority Christopher Clark describes Prussia's great battles dynastic marriages and astonishing reversals of fortune its brilliant and charismatic leaders from the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the Great the military machine and the progressive enlightened values on which it was built 'Fascinating masterly littered with intriguing detail and wry observation' Richard Overy Daily Telegraph 'A terrific book the definitive history of this much-maligned state' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'You couldn't have the triumph and the tragedy of Prussia better told' Observer 'A magisterial history of Europe's only extinct power' Financial Times 'Exemplary an illuminating profoundly satisfying work of history' The New York Times Christopher Clark is a lecturer in Modern European History at St Catharine's College University of Cambridge He is also the author of Kaiser Wilhelm II A Life in Power"
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| "A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The bestselling much-loved classic account of an English couple enjoying the fruits of French rural living - an irresistible feast of humour and heartPeter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality throwing caution to the wind they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new lifeIn a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomic delights they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life are conjured up in this enchanting portrait'One of the most successful travel books of all time Mayle created a new travel genre' GuardianDelightful' Washington Post'Engaging funny and richly appreciative' New York Times Book Review'Stylish witty delightfully readable' Sunday Times'I really loved this book' Julia Child"
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| "Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "From the award-winning author of The Whisperers Orlando Figes Natasha&39;s Dance A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia&39;s mighty culture Orlando Figes&39; enthralling richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia the lives of those who have shaped its culture and the enduring spirit of a people &39;Wonderfully rich magnificent and compelling a delight to read&39; Antony Beevor &39;A tour de force by the great storyteller of modern Russian historians Figes mobilizes a cast of serf harems dynasties politburos libertines filmmakers novelists composers poets tsars and tyrants superb flamboyant and masterful&39; Simon Sebag-Montefiore Financial Times &39;Awe-inspiring Natasha&39;s Dance has all the qualities of an epic tragedy&39; Mail on Sunday &39;It is so much fun to read that I hesitate to write too much for fear of spoiling the pleasures and surprises of the book&39; Sunday Telegraph &39;Magnificent Figes is at his exciting best&39; Guardian &39;Breathtaking The title of this masterly history comes from War and Peace when the aristocratic heroine Natasha Rostova finds herself intuitively picking up the rhythm of a peasant dance One of those books that at times makes you wonder how you have so far managed to do without it&39; Independent on Sunday &39;Thrilling dizzying I would defy any reader not to be captivated&39; Literary Review Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College University of London He is the author of Peasant Russia Civil War A People&39;s Tragedy Natasha&39;s Dance The Whisperers and Just Send Me Word His books have been translated into over twenty languages"
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| "Woof! by Allan Ahlberg (Paperback, 1987)" |
| "He felt a curious tingling in his hands and feet He felt his nose becoming cold and wet his ears becoming flappy The thought in his mind was 'I'm turning into a dog!'Eric is a perfectly ordinary boy Perfectly ordinary that is until the night when in fifteen seconds flat he turns into a dog! Eric and his best friend are determined to sniff out the truth - what makes an ordinary boy go 'woof'?"
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| "Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly She was an ordinary if unusuallyintelligent and articulate little girl and her preoccupations include whether or not to join the Madonna fan club her piano lessons her friends andher new skis But the distant murmur of war draws closer to her Sarajevo home Her father starts to wear military uniform and herfriends begin to leave the city One day school is closed and the next day bombardments begin The pathos and power of Zlata's diary comes from watching the destruction of a childhood Her circle of friends isincreasingly replaced by international journalists who come to hear of this little girl's courage and resilience But the reality is that as they flyoff with the latest story of Zlata she remains behind writing her deepest feelings to 'Mimmy' her diary and her last remaining friend"
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| "The Tiger Child: A Folk Tale from India by Joanna Troughton (Paperback, 1950)" |
| "This lively folk tale from Orissa India explains why tigers eat their food uncooked and why cats live with people The tiger child is sent to fetch some more fire from the village but on the way he gets distracted by his friends By the time he gets to the village he has forgotten what he has been sent to fetch"
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| "English Romantic Verse by David Wright (Paperback, 1968)" |
| "English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality' 'The Ancient Mariner' 'The Tyger' excerpts from 'Don Juan' - as well as some less familiar poems As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order and their poems in order of composition beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray Cowper Burns and Chatterton Naturally most space has been given over to the major Romantics - Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley Clare and Keats - although their successors poets such as Beddoes and Poe are included too as well as early poems by Tennyson and Browning In an excellent introduction David Wright discusses the Romantics as a historical phenomenon and points out their central ideals and themes"
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| "Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (Paperback, 1961)" |
| "As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing' for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language Whitman transformed by a new experience' Mr Cowley has taken the first edition from its narrow circulation among scholars faithfully edited it added his own introduction and Whitman's original introduction (which never appeared in any other edition during Whitman's life) and returned it to the common readership to whom the great poet really speaks"
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| "The Complete English Poems by John Donne (Paperback, 1976)" |
| "No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy From satire to tender elegy from sacred devotion to lust he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods Constant in his work however is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in religious meditations such as 'Good Friday 1613 Riding Westward' as it is in secular love poems such as 'The Sun Rising' or 'The Flea' 'The intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion' wrote Yeats pinpointing the unique genius of a poet who combined ardour and intellect in equal measure"
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| "The Complete Poems by William Blake (Paperback, 1977)" |
| "One of the great English Romantic poets William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist poet mystic and visionary His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger' and 'The Blossom' and 'The Sick Rose' - to highly elaborate apocalyptic works such as The Four Zoas Milton and Jerusalem Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy religion and myth to create a poetic worlds illuminated by his spiritual and revolutionary beliefs that have fascinated intrigued and enchanted readers for generations"
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| "Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Showcasing the creative power of one of the most outstanding English Metaphysical Poets the Penguin Classics edition of John Donne's Selected Poems includes an introduction and notes by Ilona BellRegarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets John Donne was also among the most intriguing figures of the Renaissance A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time The Selected Poems reflects this wide diversity and includes his youthful Songs and Sonnets epigrams elegies letters satires and the profoundly moving Divine Poems composed towards the end of his life From joyful poems such as 'The Flea' which transforms the image of a louse into something marvellous to the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets Donne breathed new vigour into poetry by drawing lucid and often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived His poems remain among the most passionate profound and spiritual in the English languageIlona Bell's introduction considers Donne's life faith and influence This edition also includes detailed notes and a further reading listJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a family of devout Catholics He studied at Oxford University travelled on the continent and then studied law at Lincoln's Inn In the early 1600s Donne became a Member of Parliament and Justice of the Peace obtaining temporary positions and patronage from a number of aristocrats who are the subjects of his poems He was ordained as an Anglican minister in 1615 and in 1621 was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral a position he held until his deathIf you enjoyed Donne's Selected Poems you might enjoy John Milton's Paradise Lost also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "Selected Poems: Keats by John Keats (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Over the course of his short life John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity By the end of his brief career he had written poems of such beauty imagination and generosity of spirit that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should be among the English poets after my death' This wide-ranging selection of Keats's poetry contains youthful verse such as his earliest known poem Imitation of Spenser'; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including Lamia' Isabella' The Eve of St Agnes' Ode to a Nightingale' and Hyperion' - and later celebrated works such as La Belle Dame sans Merci' Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work but which illustrate his more earthy playful side and superb ear for everyday language"
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| "Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility' Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads is edited with a note on the text by Michael Schmidt in Penguin ClassicsPublished in 1798 Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - two major figures of English Romanticism The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere' one of the works for which he became best known as well as the fantastical conversational poem 'The Foster-Mother's Tale' and the melancholic 'The Nightingale' Wordsworth's 'We are Seven' depicts a child's naive optimism in the face of the cruel mortality while 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' and 'Simon Lee' celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people and 'Tintern Abbey' explores the healing powers of natureThis Penguin Classics edition allows readers to recapture the full impact and power of Lyrical Ballads It also includes a note on the history of the text by Michael SchmidtSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) has been criticized as a political turn-coat drug addict and plagiarist whose wrecked career left only a handful of magical early poems But the shaping influence of his highly imaginative criticism is now generally accepted and his position along with that of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) as one of the two great progenitors of the English Romantic spirit is assured A great innovator Wordsworth permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatmentIf you enjoyed the Lyrical Ballads you might like Wordsworth's Selected Poems also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "Selected Poems: Rossetti by Christina G. Rossetti (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets It includes an illuminating introduction a chronology of Rossetti's life and works and explanatory notes"
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| "A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "AE Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett and an afterword by John Sparrow'What are those blue remembered hillsWhat spires what farms are those?'In this collection A E Housman's poems including'To an Athlete Dying Young' 'Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now' and 'When I Was One-and-Twenty' conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness Their scope is wide - ranging from religious doubt and doomed love to intense nostalgia for the countryside and patriotic celebration of the life of the soldier - and they are made all the more memorable by their distinctive diction and perfectly modulated rhythm and sound This volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922) along with the posthumous selections More Poems and Additional Poems and three translations of extracts from Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides that display his mastery of Classical literatureThis edition has been revised by Archie Burnett and includes updated notes on the text and indexes of first lines and titles In his afterword John Sparrow discusses Housman's methods of writing and melancholic temperamentAlfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as AE Housman was an English poet and classical scholar now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire LadIf you enjoyed A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems you might like John Clare's Selected Poems also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith (Paperback, 1982)" |
| "Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of economic theory in general and 'classical' economics in particular and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew SkinnerThe publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America's Declaration of Independence and with this landmark treatise on political economy Adam Smith paved the way for modern capitalism arguing that a truly free market - fired by competition yet guided as if by an 'invisible hand' to ensure justice and equality - was the engine of a fair and productive society Books I - III of The Wealth of Nations examine the 'division of labour' as the key to economic growth by ensuring the interdependence of individuals within society They also cover the origins of money and the importance of wages profit rent and stocks; but the real sophistication of his analysis derives from the fact that it encompasses a combination of ethics philosophy and history to create a vast panorama of societyThis edition contains an analytical introduction offering an in-depth discussion of Smith as an economist and social scientist as well as a preface further reading and explanatory notesAdam Smith (1723-90) was born in Glasgow and educated at Glasgow and Oxford Two years after his return to Scotland Smith moved to Edinburgh where he delivered lectures on Rhetoric In 1751 Smith was appointed Professor of Logic at Glasgow but was translated to chair of Moral Philosophy in 1752 The Theory of Moral Sentiments was published in 1759 and The Wealth of Nations in 1776 the same year as the Declaration of IndependenceIf you enjoyed The Wealth of Nations you might like Karl Marx's Capital also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe (Paperback, 1985)" |
| "The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife mother businesswoman pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English Here Kempe (c1373-c1440) recounts in vivid unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children the failure of her brewery business her dramatic call to the spiritual life her visions and uncontrollable tears the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land Margery Kempe could not read or write and dictated her remarkable story late in lifeIt remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage"
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| "On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "Artist architect poet and philosopher Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435) Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition representation light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci and remains a compelling theory of art"
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| "The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner to whom this work was dedicated Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces the Apolline representing beauty and order and the Dionysiac a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life but also provide a consolation for it Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture and in literary criticism"
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