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  • Dialogues and Essays

    by Seneca, Tobias Reinhardt ...
    Translated by John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day. They also have much to say ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Medea and Other Plays

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by John Davie ...
    Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert FaglesThis selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Greek To Us

    The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World

    by John Davie ...
    Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Satires and Epistles

    by Horace, Robert Cowan ...
    Translated by John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • On Life and Death

    by Cicero ...
    Translated by John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    '...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Et tu, Brute?

    The Best Latin Lines Ever

    by Harry Mount, John Davie ...
    Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present.There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'; 'Et tu Brute' – examples would ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Greek To Us

    The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World

    by John Davie ...
    Narrated by John Davie ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 53 min

    Bloomsbury presents Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World, written and read by John DavieAncient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us ‘hypocrite’; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that’s before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Et tu, Brute?

    The Best Latin Lines Ever

    by Harry Mount, John Davie ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    Bloomsbury presents Et tu, Brute? by Harry Mount and John Davie, read by John Telfer.Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present.There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Wuthering Heights

    by Emily Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff ... Read more

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  • Persuasion

    by Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.' Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval ... Read more

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  • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

    by Epictetus, Christopher Gill ...
    Translated by Robin Hard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed ... Read more

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