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Great God Pan And Other Horror Stories by Machen Arthur
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World Classics
Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle…Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal body of ...Show more
Heart of the Antarctic and South by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Category: Biography | 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 (Wordsworth) by Herodotus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Category: History | 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
Category: Classic | 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
Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche; Ray Furness (Introduction by); Tom Griffith (Contribution by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
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
Ibsen Plays: v.5: "Brand"; "Emperor" and "Galilean" by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Fiction | Series: World Classics
"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) The two epic plays in this volume stand, together with Peer Gynt an ...Show more
Interpretation of Dreams by SIGMUND FREUD
Category: Personal Development | 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
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Category: Classic | 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
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery and family loyalty - are timeless, as are the reputations of its major characters, Arthur, Merlin, Guenever and Launcelot. Mal ...Show more