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The Inferno (Divine Comedy #1) by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he ...Show more
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
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Category: Biography | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The 22-year old James Boswell first met Johnson, who was then aged 54, in 1763. Nine years later he wrote in his journal of his 'constant plan to write the life of Mr Johnson'. Boswell was tireless in his search for authenticated proof, and his training as a lawyer helped him sift the evidence of friend ...Show more
The Metamorphosis & Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This selection of Kafka's shorter prose writings includes one of the few works published during his lifetime: the harrowing story of Gregor Samsa's overnight transformation into a verminous insect, his record of the effect of this sudden metamorphosis on himself and the reaction of his family. It convey ...Show more
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extin ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His languag ...Show more
Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
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Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detai ...Show more
Upanishads by Suren Navlakha
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first expressed in the Rig-Veda more than 4000 years ago. Remarkab ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more