1. |
APULEIUS,
The Golden Ass |
£3.00 |
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'...thoroughly
entertaining mixture of magic, farce, religion, and mythology...' |
$6.00 |
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2. |
ARETINO,
Selected Letters |
£3.00 |
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'When
Venice was the epicentre of the Renaissance, Aretino was
it's gossip columnist, trend setter and political diarist.' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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3. |
SAINT
AUGUSTINE, Confessions |
£3.00 |
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'...his
analysis of the emotional side of christian experience in
the face of sin remains unsurpassed.' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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4. |
BAUDELAIRE,
Selected Writings on Art and Artists |
£3.00 |
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'This
selection includes Baudelaire's discussion of Delacroix,
Ingres, Corot, Gautier, Poe, Flaubert and Wagner.' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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5. |
BOETHIUS,
The Consolation of Philosophy |
£3.00 |
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'His
last and greatist work mingles verse and prose in a sacred
dialogue with his 'nurse', Philosophy.' |
$6.00 |
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sold |
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6. |
EINHARD
and NOTKER THE STAMMERER, Two Lives of Charlemagne |
£3.00 |
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'Two
contrasting biographies about the life of Charlemagne.' |
$6.00 |
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| 7. |
CORNEILLE
Pierre, The Cid, Cinna, The Theatrical Illusion |
£3.00 |
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'Le
Cid was the first major work of the classical Theatre...' |
$6.00 |
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8. |
DIDEROT
Denis, The Nun |
£3.00 |
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'...the
story of a girl without a religious vocation, enclosed against
her will in the unnatural environment of a convent...' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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9. |
Saint
Erkenwald, The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness |
£3.00 |
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'Three
Middle English poems.' |
$6.00 |
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10. |
EURIPIDES,
Medea, Hecabe, Electra, Heracles |
£3.00 |
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'An
outspoken critic of society and the Gods, Euripides was
at his most eloquent on the theme of human suffering...'
|
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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11. |
EXQUEMELIN,
The Buccaneers of America |
£3.00 |
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'There
are few accounts of piracy to equal the book published in
Holland...' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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12. |
GOETHE,
Faust / Part One |
£3.00 |
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'...takes
for it's theme the universal experience of the
troubled human soul...' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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| 13. |
GOETHE,
Faust / Part Two |
£3.00 |
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SOLD |
$6.00 |
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14. |
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight |
£3.00 |
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'...is
the masterpiece of medieval alliterative poetry.' |
$6.00 |
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15. |
HERODOTUS,
The Histories |
£3.00 |
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'...is
the first great prose work in European literature.' |
$6.00 |
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16. |
HESIOD
and THEOGNIS |
£3.00 |
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'...a
dramatic and primative version of the origins of the world
and of the birth of gods.' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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17. |
HINDU
MYTHS |
£3.00 |
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'These
tales of Hindu gods and demons express in vivid symbols
the metaphysical insights of ancient Indian priests and
poets.' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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| 18. |
FIELDING
Henry, Tom Jones |
£3.00 |
| |
'...one
of the great comic novels in the English language...' |
$6.00 |
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| 19. |
Allah/Mohamed,
The Koran |
£3.00 |
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$6.00 |
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| 20. |
LIVY,
The War with Hannibal |
£3.00 |
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'This
volume contains the ten books of Livy's History of Rome...' |
$6.00 |
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SOLD |
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21. |
LIVY,
The Early History of Rome |
£3.00 |
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'An
epic poet in prose...includes Romulus and Remus.' |
$6.00 |
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22. |
NIETZSCHE
Friedrich, A Nietzsche Reader |
£3.00 |
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'...offers
an introduction to the work of a major thinker and
superb writer.' |
$6.00 |
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23. |
NIETZSCHE
Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil |
£3.00 |
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'...probably
the most widely read of his books. It straddles almost the
whole range of his philosophical interests.' |
$6.00 |
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24. |
NIETZSCHE
Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
£3.00 |
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'...a
spiritual odyssey through the modern world.' |
$6.00 |
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sold |
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25. |
OVID,
Metamorphoses |
£3.00 |
| |
'The
unity of theme is that of transformation: of chaos into
harmony, of animals turned into stone, of men and women
who became trees or stars.' |
$6.00 |
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