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Maugham Plays 1 - Sheppey; The Sacred Flame; The Circle; The Constant Wife; Our Betters by W. Somerset Maugham; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'One of the most admired and widely read authors of this century This first volume of Somerset Maugham''s collected plays includes Sheppey, his last and best comedy of a Cockney barber who determines to give his sweepstake winnings to the poor; The Sacred Flame gives an unusual note of noir-ish suspense ...Show more
Maugham Plays 2 by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'One of the most admired and widely read authors of this century. W. Somerset Maugham established his reputation as a master of the English social comedy in the tradition of Oscar Wilde with Lady Frederick in 1907. The three other plays in this selection provide equal proof of his powers as a dramatist. ...Show more
Meditations by MARCUS AURELIUS
Category: Classics | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Meditations is the title of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in "highly-educated" Koine Greek[1] as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions o ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Roman poet Ovid's "Metamorphoses", completed around 8AD, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his theme of transformation.
Mohammed (Wordsworth Classics) by Washington IRVING
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worship false gods instead. As the last and greatest prophet of the one and only God, it was his task to abolish ...Show more
Moliere - Five Plays: The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The School for Wives; The Miser; The Hypochondriac by Moliere
Category: Classics | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'This volume brings together five of Moliere''s finest and best-known plays. The three verse plays, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The School for Wives, have been skilfully turned into sparkling English couplets by Richard Wilbur''s ''brilliant rhymed translation'' Sunday Telegraph; while the playwright ...Show more
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of ...Show more
Njal's Saga by Lee M. Hollander
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by Lee M. Hollander, with an Introduction by Thorsteinn Gylfason. Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first recounts the touching friends ...Show more
Noel Coward Plays-Two - Private Lives - Bitter-Sweet - The Marquise - Post-Mortem by Noël Coward
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The second volume in the Coward Collection. The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward''s writing achieved in the late 1920s- it contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immediate hit when it was first staged in 1930, Coward''s sparkling dial ...Show more
On Liberty and Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is the most important of Britain's nineteenth-century philosophers. His writings and activities were many and varied. The works reprinted in this volume were first published during a particularly prolific ten-year span, from 1859 to 1869. On Liberty (1859), Considerations on ...Show more
On War (Abridged) by Carl Von Clausewitz; J. J. Graham (Translator); F. N. Maude (Revised by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which sw ...Show more
Peter Pan by Sir J. M. Barrie
Category: Children's Classics | Series: World Classics
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. Peter Pan lives in Neverland, where he is aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling.