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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classic Fiction | 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: History | 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
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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: Classic | 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: Fiction | 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
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Category: Classic | 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
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
This tale opens with the knight, Redcrosse, undertaking a quest in aid of his beloved, Una. In order to succeed, and be united with Una, Redcrosse must overcome his own human failings as well as the evil tricks of the magician Archimago.
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Four Plays - Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of drama th ...Show more
General Introduction to Psychonalysis by Sigmund Freud
Category: Health and Wellbeing | 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
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Joy Cowley (Retold by); Eun-shil Kim (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: World Classics Ser.
Recreated with 3D modelling, there has never been a 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' quite like this. The timeless story leaps out of the page, as the three bears' orderly and peaceful existence is thrown into chaos when Goldilocks stumbles upon their empty house.