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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for
the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not
just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest
sense - economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free
World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic
Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal
years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and stresses the rich
flow of ideas across the Atlantic. How did elitism and an
anti-totalitarian scepticism of passion and ideology give way to a
new sensibility defined by experimentation and loving the Beatles?
How was the ideal of 'freedom' applied to causes that ranged from
anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation
via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to
readers of The Metaphysical Club, Menand takes us inside Hannah
Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir and the post-war vogue for French existentialism,
structuralism and post-structuralism. He also shows how Europeans
played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and
thought, revealing how America's once neglected culture became
respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book
offers a masterly account of the main characters and minor figures
who played part in shaping the post-war world of art and thought.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
In ancient times Menander (341-290 BC) was the most admired and most quoted of the Greek playwrights. His plays are romantic comedies dealing with the lives of ordinary Athenian families. This new verse translation, which includes explanatory notes and a full introduction, follows the text of Menander closely but attempts to fill some of the gaps using surviving words in damaged papyri so the reader has, as far as possible, a consecutive text.
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for
the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not
just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest
sense - economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free
World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic
Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal
years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and stresses the rich
flow of ideas across the Atlantic. How did elitism and an
anti-totalitarian scepticism of passion and ideology give way to a
new sensibility defined by experimentation and loving the Beatles?
How was the ideal of 'freedom' applied to causes that ranged from
anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation
via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to
readers of The Metaphysical Club, Menand takes us inside Hannah
Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir and the post-war vogue for French existentialism,
structuralism and post-structuralism. He also shows how Europeans
played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and
thought, revealing how America's once neglected culture became
respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book
offers a masterly account of the main characters and minor figures
who played part in shaping the post-war world of art and thought.
For eight centuries after his death Menander was the third most
popular poet in the Greek-speaking world, and his plays, through
Roman imitations and adaptations, engendered a tradition of
European light drama that extends to our own day. But it is only
since 1844 that some of the actual texts of Menander's plays have
been rediscovered, mostly in Egyptian papyri. Two of these have
given us four-fifths of the script of Samia (The Woman from Samos),
a play of deception and misunderstanding in which a marriage that
everyone desires almost fails to happen, two women and a baby are
almost ruined, and a loving father almost loses his only son,
because the people at home and the people abroad have both been
doing things behind each other's backs - but somehow everything
ends happily after all. This is the first full-scale edition with
English commentary and is suitable for upper-level students.
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