The Portable Roman Reader

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101173756

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The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world’s first psychological novel. This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.

Author : Basil Davenport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Latin literature
ISBN : OCLC:11414649

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The Portable Roman Reader by Basil Davenport Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1951-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0670603678

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The Roman Reader by Various Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1959-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670603686

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The Roman Reader by Various Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101127971

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The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Various Pdf

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0140150625

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The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,” and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.” —Newsweek

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174005

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The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101128091

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The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli Pdf

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli’s contribution to Western political theory.The Portable Machiavelli brings together the complete texts of The Prince, Belfagor, and Castruccio Castracani, newly translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa especially for this volume. In addition, the editors include an abridged version of The Discourses; a play, The Mandrake Root, in its entirety; seven private letters; and selections from The Art of War and The History of Florence.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174432

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The Portable Milton by John Milton Pdf

The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977-05-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101127414

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The Portable Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucer’s accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare and—in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida—ranks with that of the great English novelists. Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101127667

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The Portable Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson Pdf

Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101127612

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The Portable William Blake by William Blake Pdf

The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.

Author : Samuel C. Florman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466884991

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Engineering and the Liberal Arts by Samuel C. Florman Pdf

A Technologist's Guide to History, Literature, Philosophy, Art, and Music. From the author who inspired inaugural poet Richard Blanco! Now available in ebook for the first time, Engineering and the Liberal Arts remains a fresh and provocative book, using the familiar world of technology to guide a new generation of engineers through the stimulating world of the liberal arts. Beginning with a penetrating and enlightening discussion of how exposure to the arts can enrich and reward nearly every aspect of an engineer's life, Samuel Florman—himself a decorated engineer with over fifty years' experience in the field—boldly explores the natural relationship between liberal arts and technology. Sweeping away traditional barriers separating the two fields, Florman establishes a rich and vital communication of ideas between scientist and artist. By linking the history of technology to world history, the truth of science to philosophy, utility of form to painting and sculpture, and the world of view of the engineer to literature, Florman builds a series of bridges connecting science to art. A complete survey of the arts in and of itself, this impressive volume constitutes an introduction to the infinite variety of pleasures afforded through study of the liberal arts, paving the way to a richer, fuller life for the engineer.

Author : George Gibian
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015028929787

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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader by George Gibian Pdf

Collects writings by Aleksandr Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, and other notable nineteenth-century Russian writers.

Author : James Bruce Ross,Mary Martin McLaughlin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780140150612

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The Portable Renaissance Reader by James Bruce Ross,Mary Martin McLaughlin Pdf

Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.