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Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first ban ...Show more
Eugene Onegin by A.S. Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in vain to imitate the most inimitable features of the original, while masking many of ...Show more
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his ...Show more
General Introduction to Psychonalysis by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip', the 'Oedipus complex', 'childhood sexuality', 'libido', 'narcissism' 'penis envy', the 'castration complex', the 'id', the 'ego' and the 'superego', 'denial', 'repre ...Show more
Heart of the Antarctic and South by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of a third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reached the Antarctic mainland at all). Yet it is the second ...Show more
Histories by Herodotus
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature | Reading Level: very good
Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilom ...Show more
Holy Qur'An by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, though ...Show more
How I Found Livingstone by Henry Morton Stanley
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Henry Morton Stanley's greeting to the Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' is to exploration what Holmes's 'Elementary, my dear Watson' is to detective fiction. It took place in a remote African settlement when a travelling correspondent for the New York Herald suc ...Show more
Human, All Too Human: & Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering serie ...Show more
Interpretation of Dreams by SIGMUND FREUD
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Classics of World Literature
Sigmund Freud's landmark work The Interpretation of Dreams forever changed the way we think about our dreams. It is here that Freud made many of his most important discoveries about the subconscious mind, as he explored why we dream, what we dream, and what our dreams mean. What does it symbolize when w ...Show more
Jewish Antiquities by JOSEPHUS Flavius
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Whiston's translation, with an Introduction by Brian McGing. The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books o ...Show more
Key Philosophical Writings by René Descartes
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Classics of World Literature
Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Break ...Show more