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Serie: Oxford world's classics
paperbackEngels480 blz.9780199538737
1e druk
26-2-2009
The accessible introduction and clear notes by Stalley examine the historical and philosophical background of the work and discuss its significance for modern political thought. Meer
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paperbackEngels528 blz.9780192805928
1e druk
9-10-2008
The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers who created the United States, and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. Meer
paperbackEngels256 blz.9780199535903
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Meer
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paperbackEngels352 blz.9780199537822
14-8-2008
In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Meer
paperbackEngels224 blz.9780199540327
1e druk
17-4-2008
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Meer
paperbackEngels384 blz.9780199540679
13-11-2008
`If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance. Meer
paperbackEngels288 blz.9780199540716
1e druk
8-5-2008
On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. Meer
paperbackEngels288 blz.9780198783435
1e druk
14-9-2017
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Meer
paperbackEngels192 blz.9780198860204
8-5-2025
A new edition of Thomas More's Utopia—a 16th century socio-political critique made through a satirical account of an idealised fictional society. This edition is based on the first English translation of the text and provides novel insights into More's context and intentions, as well as the influence of the translator. Meer
paperbackEngels304 blz.9780199549917
1e druk
10-7-2008
Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment. In particular it focuses on the struggle against the self, and how to choose the right companions in order to progress along the mystical path. Meer
paperbackEngels560 blz.9780199535767
17-4-2008
Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. Meer
paperbackEngels240 blz.9780199536214
8-5-2008
The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature. Meer
paperbackEngels272 blz.9780199536610
12-6-2008
'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it'
Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. Meer
paperbackEngels432 blz.9780199536849
12-6-2008
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth. Meer
paperbackEngels240 blz.9780199537075
14-8-2008
`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.'
Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. Meer
paperbackEngels272 blz.9780199537808
9-10-2008
'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.'
With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Meer
paperbackEngels784 blz.9780192821911
11-6-2009
'The greatest historian that ever lived'
Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Meer
paperbackEngels544 blz.9780192835574
1e druk
16-7-1998
This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings from the American and French revolutions in the first fully annotated edition of these works. Meer