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| "The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Flamboyant theatrical and ambitious Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics science philosophy and literature The Blazing World is a highly original work part Utopian fiction part feminist text it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war religious division and unfair sexual discrimination This volume also includes The Contract a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man"
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| "Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear the irresolution of Hamlet or the suspicion of Othello the cause of the tragedy - even when it is the murder of a king - is trifling compared to the calamity that it unleashes Despite his flawed nature however the tragic hero has a nobility that emphasizes the greatness of man From this paradox the audience is brought to a greater understanding of - and sympathy with - suffering The four tragedies in this collection are accompanied by notes and an introduction to each text making this edition of particular value to students and theatre-goers"
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| "Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe Benedict de Spinoza&39;s Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy This Penguin Classics edition is edited and translated from the Latin by Edwin Curley with an introduction by Stuart Hampshire Published shortly after his death the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza&39;s greatest work - an elegant fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles providing a coherent picture of reality and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life Following a logical step-by-step format it defines in turn the nature of God the mind the emotions human bondage to the emotions and the power of understanding - moving from a consideration of the eternal to speculate upon humanity&39;s place in the natural order the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness A powerful work of elegant simplicity the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection The Ethics is presented in the standard translation of the work by Edwin Curley This edition also includes an introduction by Stuart Hampshire outlining Spinoza&39;s philosophy and placing it in context Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) later known as Benedict de Spinoza was born in Amsterdam where his orthodox Jewish family had fled from persecution in Portugal Ethics was published in 1677 after his death and his influence spread to the nineteenth century inspiring the Romantic poets winning the respect of Flaubert and Matthew Arnold and moving George Eliot who admired him as the enemy of superstition and the hero of scientific rationalism to begin a translation of his works If you enjoyed Ethics you might like Rene Descartes&39; Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings also available in Penguin Classics &39;The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ethically he is supreme&39;Bertrand Russell"
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| "American Notes by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "American Notes is a fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes and an introduction by Patricia InghamWhen Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination His frank and often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically wretched sea voyage to his sheer astonishment at the magnificence of the Niagara Falls while he also visited hospitals prisons and law courts and found them exemplary But Dickens's opinion of America as a land ruled by money built on slavery with a corrupt press and unsavoury manners provoked a hostile reaction on both sides of the Atlantic American Notes is an illuminating account of a great writer's revelatory encounter with the New WorldIn her introduction Patricia Ingham examines the response the book received when it was published and compares it with similar travel writings of the period and with Dickens's fiction in particular Martin Chuzzlewit This edition includes an updated chronology appendices and notesCharles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012 His most famous books including Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millionsIf you enjoyed American Notes you might like Dickens's Pictures from Italy also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave by Mary Prince (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain It describes Prince&39;s sufferings as a slave in Bermuda Turks Island and Antigua and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828 Prince escaped from him and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie) A moving and graphic document The History drew attention to the continuation of slavery in the Caribbean despite an 1807 Act of Parliament officially ending the slave trade It inspired two libel actions and ran into three editions in the year of its publication This powerful rallying cry for emancipation remains an extraordinary testament to Prince&39;s ill-treatment suffering and survival"
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| "Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire but also on Shakespeare the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life and from authors from Conan Doyle to Kipling In this powerful drama of ideas Shaw explores the role of the artist the function of women in society and his theory of Creative EvolutionAs Stanley Weintraub says in his new introduction this is the first great twentieth-century English play and remains a classic expose of the eternal struggle between the sexes"
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| "Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful vital and rebelling against the values that surround her The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics religion and creative evolution"
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| "Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "A masterpiece of autobiography and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey&39;s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the &39;Church of Opium&39; Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller) and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London along with the nightmares despair and paranoia to which he became prey The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures and pains unique to opium Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction paving the way for later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious This edition is based on the original serial version of 1821 and reproduces two &39;sequels&39; &39;Suspiria de Profundis&39; (1845) and &39;The English Mail-Coach&39; (1849) It also includes a critical introduction discussing the romantic figure of the addict and the tradition of confessional literature and an appendix on opium in the nineteenth century Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) studied at Oxford failing to take his degree but discovering opium He later met Coleridge Southey and the Wordsworths From 1828 until his death he lived in Edinburgh and made his living from journalism If you enjoyed Confessions of an English Opium-Eater you might like William S Burroughs&39; Junky available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;De Quincey was one of the first great autobiographers&39;Jonathan Bate"
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| "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Written in 1857 this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal Undaunted Seacole set out independently to the Crimea where she acted as doctor and 'mother' to wounded soldiers while running her business the 'British Hotel' A witness to key battles she gives vivid accounts of how she coped with disease bombardment and other hardships at the Crimean battlefrontIn her introduction to the very welcome Penguin edition Sara Salih expertly analyses the rhetorical complexities of Seacole's book to explore the richness of her story Traveller entrepreneur healer and woman of colour Mary Seacole is a singular and fascinating figure overstepping all conventional boundaries Jan Marsh IndependentIt's hard to believe that this amazing adventure story is the true-life experience of a Jamaican woman - it would make a great film Andrea Levy Sunday Times"
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| "Protestant Ethic and Other Writings by Max Weber (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "In The Protestant Ethic Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties"
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| "The Theban Plays by Sophocles (Paperback, 1950)" |
| "The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fateKING OEDIPUS tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn't realise he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment on himself It is a devastating portrayl of a ruler brought down by his own oath OEDIPUS AT COLONUS provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king while ANTIGONE depicts the fall of the next generation through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident in his own authority"
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| "The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri (Paperback, 1950)" |
| "Guided by the poet Virgil Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life In this first part of his Divine Comedy Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment"
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| "The Persian Expedition by Xenophon (Paperback, 1950)" |
| "In The Persian Expedition Xenophon a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne When the Greeks were then betrayed by their Persian employers they were forced to march home through hundreds of miles of difficult terrain - adrift in a hostile country and under constant attack from the unforgiving Persians and warlike tribes In this outstanding description of endurance and individual bravery Xenophon one of those chosen to lead the retreating army provides a vivid narrative of the campaign and its aftermath and his account remains one of the best pictures we have of Greeks confronting a 'barbarian' world"
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| "History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (Paperback, 1954)" |
| "A first-hand account of the war between Sparta and Athens from a man dubbed the &39;father of scientific history&39; Thucydides History of The Peloponnesian War is translated from the Greek by Rex Warner with an introduction and notes by MI Finley in Penguin Classics&39;My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public but was done to last for ever&39;Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens) stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author&39;s ambitious claim Thucydides himself was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the warHe applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict Thucydides (c460-400 BC) Greek historian and author took a small part in the Peloponnesian War when it broke out in 431BC His account The Peoloponnesian War is the only surviving source for much of the period that he describesSome of the chronological inconsistencies have been the cause of controversy among scholars for centuriesIf you enjoyed History of the Peloponnesian War you might like Suetonius&39; The Twelve Caesars also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Paperback, 1961)" |
| "Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work misquoted misrepresented brilliantly original and enormously influential Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the German by RJ Hollingdale in Penguin ClassicsNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman the human embodiment of divinity is his successor Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead' his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by among others Nazi intellectuals With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority but in an all-powerful life force passionate chaotic and freeFrederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879 He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane A powerfully original thinker Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers such as George Bernard Shaw DH Lawrence Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre was considerable If you enjoyed Thus Spoke Zarathustra you might like Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil also available in Penguin Classics'Enigmatic vatic emphatic passionate often breathtakingly insightful his works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A C Grayling"
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| "Medea and Other Plays by Euripides (Paperback, 1963)" |
| "Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed characters who defy the expectations of Greek society Euripides' Medea and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Philip Vellacott in Penguin ClassicsThe four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character once powerful brought down by betrayal jealousy guilt and hatred The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions In Medea a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy driven mad by the prospect of her daughter's sacrifice to Achilles Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother while in Heracles the hero seeks vengeance against the evil king who has caused bloodshed in his familyPhilip Vellacott's lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction which discusses the literary background of Classical Athens and examines the distinction between instinctive and civilized behaviour Euripides (c485-07 BC) was an Athenian born into a family of considerable rank Disdaining the public duties expected of him Euripides spent a life of quiet introspection spending much of his life in a cave on Salamis Late in life he voluntarily exiled himself to the court of Archelaus King of Macedon where he wrote The Bacchae regarded by many as his greatest work Euripides is thought to have written 92 plays only 18 of which surviveIf you enjoyed Medea and Other Plays you might like Aeschylus' The Oresteian Trilogy also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus (Paperback, 1965)" |
| "One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world Plautus (c254-184 BC) skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp to the more subversive The Prisoners which raises serious questions about the role of slavery Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and The Pot of Gold whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice Throughout Plautus breathes new brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins scheming slaves bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values"
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| "The Upanishads by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 1965)" |
| "The Upanishads the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion Each Upanishad or lesson takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth and collectively they are meditations on life death and immortality The essence of their teachings is that truth can by reached by faith rather than by thought and that the spirit of God is within each of us - we need not fear death as we carry within us the promise of eternal life"
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| "The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (Paperback, 1967)" |
| "In his perfectly crafted haiku poems Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment He wrote of the seasons changing of the smell of the rain the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe These travel writings not only chronicle Basho's perilous journeys through Japan but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him"
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| "Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Paperback, 1969)" |
| "Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Robin CampbellA philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature' Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC but it was in Seneca that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate Stoicism as expressed in the Letters helped ease pagan Rome's transition to Christianity for it upholds upright ethical ideals and extols virtuous living as well as expressing disgust for the harsh treatment of slaves and the inhumane slaughters witnessed in the Roman arenas Seneca's major contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into a powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mindRobin Campbell's lucid translation captures Seneca's humour and tautly aphoristic style In his introduction he discusses the tensions between Seneca's philosophy and his turbulent career as adviser to the tyrannical emperor NeroLucius Annaeus Seneca (c4BC - AD65) was born in Spain but was raised according to the traditional values of the republic of Rome In AD48 he became tutor to the future emperor Nero and became his principal civil advisor when he took power His death was eventually ordered by Nero in AD65 but Seneca anticipated the emperor's decree and committed suicideIf you enjoyed Letters from a Stoic you might like Marcus Aurelius's Meditations also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer (Paperback, 1973)" |
| "One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by &39;will&39; - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence This selection of his writings on religion ethics politics women suicide books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer&39;s last work Parerga and Paralipomena which he published in 1851 These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world in which art morality and self-awareness are our only salvation This innovative - and pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art directly affecting the work of Nietzsche Wittgenstein and Wagner among others"
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| "The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian (Paperback, 1976)" |
| "The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire of his own making translated from the Greej by Aubrey de Selincourt and revised with an introduction and notes by JR Hamilton in Penguin ClassicsAlthough written over four hundred years after Alexander's death Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world's greatest conqueror He tells of Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion his total defeat of Persia and his campaigns through Egypt India and Babylon - establishing new cities and destroying others in his path While Alexander emerges from this record as an unparalleled and charismatic leader Arrian succeeds brilliantly in creating an objective and fully-rounded portrait of a man of boundless ambition who was exposed to the temptations of power and was worshipped as a god in his own lifetimeAubrey de Selincourt's vivid translation is accompanied by JR Hamilton's introduction which discusses Arrian's life and times his synthesis of other classical sources and the composition of Alexander's army This edition also contains appendices maps a list for further reading and a detailed indexThe details of Arrian's life (b 86) are uncertain though the shape of it indicates a man of wide and varied talents He was governor to the Emperor Hadrian the author of a number of works of non-fiction and an Athenian citizen In 145 he rose to become a chief magistrate of Athens and thereby part of the governing body of the city His date of death is not knownIf you enjoyed The Campaigns of Alexander you might like Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Paperback, 1977)" |
| "The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality in Beyond Good and Evil (1886) grappled with the fundamental issues of the human condition in his own intense autobiography Ecce Homo (1888) Most notorious of all perhaps his idea of the triumphantly transgressive ubermann ('superman') is developed in the extreme yet poetic words of Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-92) Whether addressing conventional Western philosophy or breaking new ground Nietzsche vastly extended the boundaries of nineteenth-century thought"
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| "The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus (Paperback, 1977)" |
| "The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction notes and glossary written in collaboration with WB Stanford in Penguin ClassicsIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos As they move from darkness to light from rage to self-governance from primitive ritual to civilized institution their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration In Agamemnon a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death; and in The Eumenides Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a societyAeschylus (525-456 BC) was born near Athens He wrote more than seventy plays of which seven have survived all translated for Penguin Classics The Supplicants The Persians Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound Agamemnon The Libation Bearers and The EumenidesIf you enjoyed The Oresteia you might like Euripides' Medea and Other Plays also available in Penguin Classics'Conveys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten competitors I have consulted the eternal power of this masterpiece a triumph'Bernard Levin'How satisfying to read at last a modern translation which is rooted in Greek feeling and Greek thought both the stature and the profound instinctive genius of Aeschylus are recognised'Mary Renault author of The King Must Die"
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| "The Gods Will Have Blood: (Les Dieux Ont Soif) by Frederick Davies, Anatole France (Paperback, 1979)" |
| "It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate and given the power of life and death over the citizens of France But his intense idealism and unbridled single-mindedness drive him inexorably towards catastrophe Published in 1912 The Gods Will Have Blood is a breathtaking story of the dangers of fanaticism while its depiction of the violence and devastation of the Reign of Terror is strangely prophetic of the sweeping political changes in Russia and across Europe"
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| "The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius (Paperback, 1979)" |
| "The Greek statesman Polybius (c200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the final destruction of Carthage An active participant of the politics of his time as well as a friend of many prominent Roman citizens Polybius drew on many eyewitness accounts in writing this cornerstone work of history"
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| "Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 1981)" |
| "First written down in the eighth century AD these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth part legend and part history Rich with magic and achingly beautiful they speak of a land of heroic battles intense love and warrior ideals in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind to the stunning 'Exile of the Sons of Uisliu' - a tale of treachery honour and romance - these are masterpieces of passion and vitality and form the foundation for the Irish literary tradition a mythic legacy that was a powerful influence on the work of Yeats Synge and Joyce"
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| "Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser (Paperback, 1983)" |
| "Asser's Life of King Alfred written in 893 is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive religion and learning in his kingdom this life is among the earliest surviving royal biographies It is an admiring account of King Alfred's life written in absorbing detail - chronicling his battles against Viking invaders and his struggle to increase the strength and knowledge of his people and to unite his people at a time of conflict uncertainty and war"
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| "The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus (Paperback, 1984)" |
| "Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt Syria Persia and India was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries Alexander himself remains an enigma Curtius' History offers a great deal of information unobtainable from other sources of the time A compelling narrative of a turbulent era the work recounts events on a heroic scale detailing court intrigue stirring speeches and brutal battles - among them those of Macedonia's great war with Persia which was to culminate in Alexander's final triumph over King Darius and the defeat of an ancient and mighty empire It also provides by far the most plausible and haunting portrait of Alexander we possess a brilliantly realized image of a man ruined by constant good fortune in his youth"
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| "Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu (Paperback, 1983)" |
| "Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer In this intimate memoir Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yun the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child He also describes other incidents of his life including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel 'layers' of one man's life loves and career with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty"
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