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The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
162) The major works
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2008
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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byron's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, journals, and conversations - to give the essence of his work and thinking.
166) Four great plays
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Four plays by the nineteenth-century Norwegian dramatist deal with the breakup of a marriage, Puritan moral standards, the force of public opinion, and personal illusions
167) Jerusalem delivered
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[1901]
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The great sixteenth-century poet vividly imagines the end of the First Crusade, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, and the taking of Jerusalem. This decidedly fictional 1581 account, influenced by Homer and Virgil as well as Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, is heavily seasoned with romance, intrigue, and sorcery. Tasso's poem inspired painters, playwrights, and librettists for centuries. Verse translation by Edward Fairfax.
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"The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot. Set on an ancient battlefield where the armies of rival cousins stand ready to fight, the Gita recounts the epic tale of the warrior-prince Arjuna as he confronts universal moral...
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[1969]
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Included are: Mayflower Compact -- The Maryland Toleration Act -- Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress -- Daniel Leonard-John Adams Interchange on Independence -- The Declaration of Independence -- Thomas Paine's The Crisis, Part I -- The Northwest Ordinance -- Constitution of the United States of America -- Benjamin Franklin to the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787 -- The Federalist No. 10, James Madison, November 23, 1787 -- The Federalist...
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The first Pulitzer Prize for literature awarded to a woman was for The age of innocence, Edith Wharton's elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. But before their engagement is announced, he meets the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin, who has returned to New York after...
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c1998
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These 19th century spiritual classics have long fascinated those who have stumbled on this winsome tale. First published in 1884, the books recount the adventures of an anonymous Russian pilgrim who roams the vast Siberian steppes reciting the Jesus Prayer in order to obey Christ's injunction to "pray without ceasing."
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