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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth centur ...Show more
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full ...Show more
Histories by Herodotus
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilom ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto with The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Karl Marx
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyr ...Show more
The Inferno (Divine Comedy #1) by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | 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 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics | 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 Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
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