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Civilization & Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual.
Classical Literary Criticism: Aristotle - On the Art of Poetry / Horace - On the Art of Poetry / Longinus - On the Sublime by T. S. Dorsch (Translator, Introduction by); Aristotle; Quintus Horatius Flaccus; Longinus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This anthology brings together core classical texts for understanding literature. The selections from Plato illustrate the poetic philosopher's surprising exclusion of poets from his ideal republic. In his response, Poetics, Aristotle draws on the works of the great Greek playwrights to defend the value ...Show more
Collected Poems: Patrick Kavanagh by Patrick Kavanagh
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by David (TRN) Fyodor; McDuff Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
'Crime and Punishment' tells how Raskolnikov, a former student, murders an old woman money-lender and her unfortunate sister. From the beginning Dostoyevsky attaches us unreservedly to his hero, drawing us into the dreams of the criminal soul, unfolding the rank processes of guilt in an atmosphere of al ...Show more
Critique Of Pure Reason by IMMANUEL KANT
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowled ...Show more
Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Purity is priceless. Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face. And back in England eerie incidents are unfolding as strange punctu ...Show more
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But yea ...Show more
Equus by Peter Shaffer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a ...Show more
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Translation by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son at God's command. Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of f ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Although on one level this book is a story in the Gothic horror tradition, it is also a philosophic novel influenced by the ideas of Godwin and Shelley and the rationalist Enlightenment.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more