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The Moralia (Paperback)
Arthur Richard Shilleto; Illustrated by Alex Struik; Plutarch
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R704
Discovery Miles 7 040
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The Moralia (loosely translatable as Matters relating to Customs
and Mores) of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea
is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches.
They give an insight into Roman and Greek life, but often are also
fascinating timeless observations in their own right. Plutarch
subsequently named, on becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius
Plutarchus ( circa 46 - 120 AD), was a Greek historian, biographer,
and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Morals. He
was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about
twenty miles east of Delphi.
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on The Gallic
War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars,
written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the
battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent
fighting local armies in Gaul that opposed Roman domination. De
Bello Civili (The Civil War), or Bellum Civile, is an account
written by Julius Caesar of his war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the
Senate. Shorter than its counterpart on the Gallic War, only three
books long, and possibly unfinished, it covers the events of 49-48
BC, from shortly before Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's
defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus and flight to Egypt with Caesar
in pursuit. It closes with Pompey assassinated, Caesar attempting
to mediate rival claims to the Egyptian throne, and the beginning
of the Alexandrian War. Gaius Julius Caesar (July 100 BC - 15 March
44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer
of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual
transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred
Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during
the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the
Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of
Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of
New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of
the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel,
with sketches of man and nature. Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January
1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer,
geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for
independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural
selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
This is Volume 1 of the two Volume book, The Malay Archipelago.
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington
Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's
fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in
Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Although the story is set in New
York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the
story, I had never been on the Catskills." Washington Irving (April
3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist,
biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He
is best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
and "Rip Van Winkle." His historical works include biographies of
George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several
histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as
Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving served as
the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of
a Man of Character," is a tragic novel by British author Thomas
Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on
the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's
Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England. The novel is
often considered one of Hardy's greatest works. Thomas Hardy (2
June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A
Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also
influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially
by William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important
influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he was also highly
critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on
a declining rural society.
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American
novelist Jack London about a literary critic and survivor of an
ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the
powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing
of forty thousand copies were immediately sold out before
publication on the strength of London's previous book "The Call of
the Wild." John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,
January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author,
journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the
then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of
the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large
fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author
of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike
Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire," "An
Odyssey of the North," and "Love of Life." He also wrote of the
South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The
Heathen," and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
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Walden (Paperback)
Alex Struik; Henry David Thoreau
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R220
Discovery Miles 2 200
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Easily Thoreau's most well-known work, Walden is a day-to-day
retelling of Thoreau's year-long stay at Walden Pond, how he
managed to afford it, and how he managed to survive. This is one of
the classics to come out of Transcendentalism.
Tales of the Punjab is a collection of Indian short stories
collected by Flora Annie Steel first published in 1894. Flora Annie
Steel (2 April 1847 - 12 April 1929) was an English writer. She was
the daughter of George Webster. In 1867 she married Henry William
Steel, a member of the Indian civil service, and for the next
twenty-two years lived in India, chiefly in the Punjab, with which
most of her books are connected.
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Walden (Paperback)
Alex Struik; Henry David Thoreau
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R199
Discovery Miles 1 990
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The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes
(intervening episodes) published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel
Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the
vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper middle-class
British family, similar to Galsworthy's own. Only a few generations
removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly
aware of their status as "new money." The main character, Soames
Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his
ability to accumulate material possessions-but this does not
succeed in bringing him pleasure. John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 -
31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable
works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A
Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1932. This is Volume III of a three volume set.
The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes
(intervening episodes) published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel
Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the
vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper middle-class
British family, similar to Galsworthy's own. Only a few generations
removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly
aware of their status as "new money." The main character, Soames
Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his
ability to accumulate material possessions-but this does not
succeed in bringing him pleasure. John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 -
31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable
works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A
Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1932. This is Volume II of a three volume set.
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