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Aristotle - Poetics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of im ...Show more
Book of Margery Kempe by KEMPE, MARGERY
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Category: Christianity | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!'The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book describes the dramatic transformation of its heroine from fail ...Show more
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persec ...Show more
Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled hi ...Show more
Constellation Myths with Aratus' Phenomena by Eratosthenes
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Category: Mythology | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the third century BC Eratosthenes compiled a handbook of ...Show more
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
Foxes Book of Martyrs-Select Narratives by John Foxe & John N. King (ed.)
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Category: Christianity | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial ...Show more
Grace Abounding & Other Spiritual ... by John Bunyan
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Category: Christianity | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I evidently saw that unless the great God of his infinite grace and bounty, had voluntarily chosen me to be a vessel of mercy, though I should desire, and long, and labour until my heart did break, no good could come of it ...How can you tell you are Elected?' (GA, 47) In seventeenth-century England, ...Show more
Grettirs Saga by Jesse Byock
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Category: Norse Lore | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
You will be made an outlaw, forced always to live in the wilds and to live alone.'A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of his enemies. Feared by many, Grettir is a warrior and als ...Show more
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology, Self-Help & Wellbeing | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book's critical reception which included, under the influence of his associat ...Show more
Mabinogion by Sioned Davies (trans)
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Category: Mythology | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history--these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a ...Show more
Major Works by Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury)
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Category: Christianity | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`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.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth ...Show more