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Serie: Oxford world's classics
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
paperbackEngels368 blz.9780199538362
11-12-2008
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness. Meer
paperbackEngels544 blz.9780199540082
8-5-2008
`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand. Meer
paperbackEngels320 blz.9780199540266
17-4-2008
The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. 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
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
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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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
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
paperbackEngels304 blz.9780199552313
10-7-2008
Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called 'the Koran in Persian'. 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
paperbackEngels256 blz.9780198732440
1e druk
9-6-2016
Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the foundational text of modern liberalism. Meer
paperbackEngels352 blz.9780199652037
1e druk
14-11-2013
Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Meer
paperbackEngels496 blz.9780199537006
18-6-2025
Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780198716594
9-4-2015
'the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact'
Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780198718000
11-6-2015
'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.'
Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780198746164
27-8-2020
'There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself'
Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780198850076
8-1-2026
'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'
This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. Meer