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A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction and revised translation by Adrianne Tooke. Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of stereotypes, on every l ...Show more
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth centur ...Show more
Beowulf by Marc Hudson
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Beowulf, a young warrior of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, in his time of need. He first fights the hellish Grendel, then struggles with Grendel's no less fearsome mother in her hall beneath the cold waters of the mere. More than fifty years later, he must face his final cha ...Show more
Capital Volume 1 & Volume 2 by Karl Marx
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classics of World Literature
This unabridged paperback edition is based on the first translation into English by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, which was edited by Frederick Engels. The book focuses on capitalist production, and analyses capitalism's workings through detailed research and observation, focusing mainly on Britain, ...Show more
Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Chekhov Plays by Anton Chekhov
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated, with an introductory essay, by Elisaveta Fen, and with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, call ...Show more
Confessions by Augustine Hippo
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
St Augustine's 'Confessions' was written between AD 397-400. An autobiographical work, it was written in thirteen parts, each a complete text intended to be read aloud. Written in his early 40s, it documents the development of Augustine's thought from childhood into his adult life - a life he considered ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the ...Show more
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full ...Show more
Democracy in America by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
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Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocquevill ...Show more
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world ...Show more
Don Quixote by CERVANTES Miguel V
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, ...Show more