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  • Dialogues and Essays

    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Medea and Other Plays

    de Euripides ...
    Traducido por 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. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Greek To Us

    The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Satires and Epistles

    Traducido por 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. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • On Life and Death

    de Cicero ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

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  • Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Et tu, Brute?

    The Best Latin Lines Ever

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Greek To Us

    The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World

    de John Davie ...
    Narrado por John Davie ...

    Completo

    9 hora 53 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Et tu, Brute?

    The Best Latin Lines Ever

    Narrado por John Telfer ...

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    7 hora 20 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    "He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters ... Leer más

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  • Wuthering Heights

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