Selected Lives

Selected Lives
Title Selected Lives PDF eBook
Author Plutarch
Publisher Wordsworth Editions
Pages 902
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781853267949

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Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North's translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the Lives whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch's writing.

New Selected Essays

New Selected Essays
Title New Selected Essays PDF eBook
Author Tennessee Williams
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 340
Release 2009
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780811217286

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"There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post

Selected to Live

Selected to Live
Title Selected to Live PDF eBook
Author Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner
Publisher Hodder Faith
Pages 270
Release 2006
Genre Christian converts from Judaism
ISBN 9780340910108

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'Selected to Live' is the dramatic story of a Jewish childhood ravaged by the Nazis. A young girl is the shocked witness to the destruction of her family, and makes a thrilling and miraculous escape from the same fate.

Essays

Essays
Title Essays PDF eBook
Author Plutarch
Publisher Penguin
Pages 444
Release 1993-04-06
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780140445640

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Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish man, the use of reason by supposedly "irrational" animals and the death of his own daughter. Brilliantly informed, these essays offer a treasure-trove of ancient wisdom, myth and philosophy, and a powerful insight into a deeply intelligent man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

We Have Only This Life to Live

We Have Only This Life to Live
Title We Have Only This Life to Live PDF eBook
Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 593
Release 2013-06-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1590174933

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Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intelligence may have found its most characteristic outlet in the open-ended form of the essay. For Sartre the essay was an essentially dramatic form, the record of an encounter, the framing of a choice. Whether writing about literature, art, politics, or his own life, he seizes our attention and drives us to grapple with the living issues that are at stake. We Have Only This Life to Live is the first gathering of Sartre’s essays in English to draw on all ten volumes of Situations, the title under which Sartre collected his essays during his life, while also featuring previously uncollected work, including the reports Sartre filed during his 1945 trip to America. Here Sartre writes about Faulkner, Bataille, Giacometti, Fanon, the liberation of France, torture in Algeria, existentialism and Marxism, friends lost and found, and much else. We Have Only This Life to Live provides an indispensable, panoramic view of the world of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Where I Live

Where I Live
Title Where I Live PDF eBook
Author Tennessee Williams
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 198
Release 1978
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780811207065

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Tennessee Williams' witty, engaging, and elegant essays are now available in a revised and much expanded edition.

Colleges That Change Lives

Colleges That Change Lives
Title Colleges That Change Lives PDF eBook
Author Loren Pope
Publisher Penguin
Pages 404
Release 2006-07-25
Genre Study Aids
ISBN 1101221348

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Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only among A students but also among those who get Bs and Cs. Contents include: Evaluations of each school's program and "personality" Candid assessments by students, professors, and deans Information on the progress of graduates This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education.