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Here is a brilliant new translation of Descartes's Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western…

Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of…

Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Sen�rach, the largest…

In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that…

Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of…

Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on…

Federico Garc�a Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but…

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of…

Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as Dante's most profound creation. The thirty-one poems in this, the first of his major writings…

This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a…

The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.--greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and…

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the…

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and…

The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the…

In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico Garc�a Lorca offered…

David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be…

This narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202--as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk who lived in the abbey of…

'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.' This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse…

Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young…

"The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted." The short-lived Qin…

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of…

O Pioneers!, Willa Cather's second novel, tells the story of an immigrant family's struggle to save their Nebraska farm. Cather's…

John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the…

Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system…

This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an…

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman…

Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and…

Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's 'Enquiry', focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its…

Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence…

About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and…

This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into…