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In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most of them had never fired a shot ...
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware ...
Written in Paris in 1951, while he was in exile from his native Poland, Milosz's denunciation of Stalinism outraged many European intellectuals at a ...
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his ...
'One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man ...
Eliza Shaw died in 1877, so her story encompasses almost the entire first half-century of the settlement of Perth and its surrounds. She left an ...
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to ...
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another ...
The fourth and final book in Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility
The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place ...
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Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his ...
W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life and literary career ...
Sartre paid tribute to him in his obituary notice- 'Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our cultural domain, nor ...
From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the ...