《Signet Classics Great Dialogues of Plato》 by Plato (Author),W. H. D. Rouse (Author, Translator),Matthew S. Santirocco (Author, Introduction) Product details Paperback: 672 pages Publisher: Signet Book; Reprint edition (6 Jan. 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451471709 ISBN-13: 978-0451471703 Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2.9 x 17.1 cm Product De*ion The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the glowing spirit of Platonic philosophy. Translated by W. H. D. Rouse, one of the world s most outstanding classical scholars and translator of Homer s The Odyssey and The Iliad , this volume features the complete texts of seven of Plato s most revered works. About the Author Plato

Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for aforeign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and acceptedas one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage,calling for actors with intelligence and common sense rather than adramatic voice or histrionic skills. He takes from everyday lifethemes of frustration which apply to us all - the difficulty ofcarving out a happy existence, the problems of love, the fading ofhope, the universal feeling that time passes and we never quite getthings right. This seems pessimistic, and yet Chekhov claimed hewas writing comedy. Readers, actors and directors must decide forthemselves which way to play these pieces. They are full ofsadness, but a sadness described as the darkness of the last hourbefore the dawn . Whether tragic or comic, however, they are worksof the first importance. The Cherry Orchard has been described asthe best play since Shakespeare , Three Sisters as the best play inthe world .

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Germinal (1885) is the thirteenth in ?‰mile Zola's cycle oftwenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the storyof ?‰tienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of thefamily, who arrives in the mining settlement of Montsou, andwitnesses at first hand the appalling conditions in which minerslive and work. Gradually becoming embroiled in a bitter disputebetween the miners and their employers, he eventually leads thestrike which is the centrepiece of the novel. But this is more thanthe struggle of labour against capital. It is also the struggle ofthe hungry against the well-fed, against the passivity andresignation passed down over generations of starving people, andultimately against hunger itself, represented by the fantasticaldevouring monster of the mine, which swallows up men, just as thebeast of the modern industrial economy relentlessly swallows upcapital. This apparent pessimism about society is offset by thepossibility of rebirth and regeneration. For all the inheritedmisery

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. His account of his experience, and his vision for all that psychedelics could offer to mankind, has influenced writers, artists and thinkers around the world. The unabridged text of The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Drinking by John Cheever Swimming by Roger Deakin Eating by Nigella Lawson Desire by Haruki Murakami

Anyone who has lived as long as I have, and who has done thethings I have, knows there will come a reckoning... Uprooted from her Shanghai childhood, young Cassandra is sentwith her father and twin brother to live on the Black Isle. Ateeming British colony in the Indonesian archipelago, the Isle is aseaport haunted by a restive multitude of ghosts . . . ghosts thatCassandra can see. These spirits will face off against the forces of modernity,drawing Cassandra into the center of a turbulent struggle. Throughit all, her strength and perseverance will be put to the test, asshe endures the hope and heartache of an impossible love, evenwhile she grows into a powerful figure of the Isle's transformationfrom colonial backwater to bustling cosmopolitan city. Taking readers from the 1920's to the present day, from theJapanese occupation during World War II to the booming post-warperiod and the radical transformations of the 20th century, THEBLACK ISLE is a visionary and moving epic.

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Eighteen witty and brilliant essays on France from Julian Barnes; Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel, he has criss-crossed the country and its culture The essays collected here, written over a twenty-year period, attest to his cleareyed appreciation of the Land Without Brussels Sprouts. He ranges widely, from landscape to literature, food to Flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France. His humour, timing and intelligence never falter. When Picador published his Letters from London, the Financial Times called him 'our finest essayist'. Something to Declare confirms that judgment: it is a great literary delight.