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The Portable Hannah Arendt
$24.00 Add to cartA collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem
She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth c- Series: Penquin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437565
- Language: English
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Faust: Part 1
$11.00 Add to cartGoethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him … [more below]
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449019
- Language: English
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The Bacchae and Other Plays
$13.00 Add to cartThrough their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician W… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0140447261
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradise
$19.00 Add to cartThe final volume in a brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy
In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to … [more below]- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 1986
- ISBN10: 0140444432
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatory
$17.00 Add to cartThe second volume of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Beginning with Dante’s liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory – a mountain of nine levels, form- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 1955
- ISBN10: 0140440461
- Language: English
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Selected Writings
$17.00 Read more‘A free mind can achieve all things. But what is a free mind?’
Composed during a critical time in the evaluation of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart are some of the most power- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eckhart, Meister
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140433430
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and Other Writings
$22.00 Read moreIn 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… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Weber, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0140439218
- Language: English
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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
$15.00 Add to cartIn 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 o… [more below]
- Series: Classic, Modern, Penguin
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447628
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$14.00 Add to cartCharles Darwin’s seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published.
Written for a general readership, On- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140439129
- Language: English
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
$20.00 Add to cartBest known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he inve… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105922
- Language: English
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The Alexiad
$22.00 Add to cartA revised edition of a medieval masterpiece–the first narrative history written by a woman
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Komnene, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455272
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$17.00 Add to cart‘The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original’ The Times
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to h- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449329
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$16.00 Add to cartBartolom? de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus’s voyages, Las Casas was so horrified… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Las Casas, Bartolom? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445625
- Language: English
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Gorgias
$10.00 Add to cartTaking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office.
Are high moral s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 155
- Publish Date: June 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0140449043
- Language: English
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
$23.00 Add to cartBefore his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting between the Old South and new West, Sherman witnessed fir… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437983
- Language: English
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The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$37.00 Add to cartTo celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America’s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
In the history of postwar American art and politics- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Miller, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107771
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$17.00 Add to cartThe epic tale of Odysseus’s journey home – one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature
If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449116
- Language: English
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The Lais of Marie de France
$17.00 Add to cartThe leading edition of the work of the earliest known French woman poet–the subject of Lauren Groff’s bestselling novel Matrix
Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: France, Marie de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140447598
- Language: English
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Essays in Idleness and Hojoki
$17.00 Add to cartTwo of the most important Buddhist tracts from Japan
A Penguin Classic Both of these works on life’s fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each represents a different world- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kenko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0141192100
- Language: English
