The Portable Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• Includes the following works: Novels-- The Portrait of Dorian Gray ; Plays-- Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest ; Writings--De Profundis, Crit... Lees meer

The Portable World Bible

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• The Portable World Bible presents the fundamental tenets of the world's basic source religions. Contemporary readers are offered, in concise, authorit... Lees meer

The Portable Machiavelli

Nicolas Machiavel

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• In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing i... Lees meer

The Portable Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did ... Lees meer

The Portable Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

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• A Penguin Classic The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three ; more than twenty stories, including " The Man Wh... Lees meer

The Portable Enlightenment Reader

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of W... Lees meer

The Portable Karl Marx

Karl Marx

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• Includes the complete Communist Manifesto and substantial extracts from On the Jewish Question, the German Ideology, Grundrisse, and Capital , a broad... Lees meer

The Portable Milton

John Milton

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• The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milto... Lees meer

The Portable Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Chronically impoverished, tormented by self-doubt and a crippling addiction to opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) still managed to become one ... Lees meer

The Portable American Realism Reader

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalis... Lees meer

The Portable Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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• Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity... Lees meer

The Portable Romantic Poets

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• This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness... Lees meer

The Portable Renaissance Reader

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• Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Mont... Lees meer

The Portable Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

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• "A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision--he is merely responsible for his quality of persona... Lees meer

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature... Lees meer

The Portable Voltaire

Voltaire

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• Includes Part One of Candide ; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake , and other works; and thirty-five l... Lees meer

The Portable Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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• Contains Don Quixote , in Samuel Putnam's acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two 'Exempl... Lees meer

The Portable Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• A captivating collection of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal works, from his provocative musings on truth and morality to his profound exploration of hum... Lees meer

The Portable Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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• The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural st... Lees meer

The Portable Western Reader

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train... Lees meer

The Portable Greek Reader

W H Auden

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, ... Lees meer

The Portable Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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• Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens ... Lees meer

The Portable Medieval Reader

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it... Lees meer

The Portable Roman Reader

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Portable Library
• The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who lon... Lees meer