This is a rediscovery of a people who for centuries were thought to have known best how to live. In art, science, medicine, politics, philosophy, sport, drama and history the Greeks invented new ideas and set standards of beauty and excellence which have influenced and inspired the world and which in many cases have never been surpassed. Peter France opens up our eyes and our minds to the best of classical Greece and makes the great writers and thinkers - men like Homer, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and Heraclitus - human and relevant for us today.

Greek As a Treat: An Introduction to the Classics

History

France, Peter

Ancient Civilizations

Penguin Group USA

Diderot (Past masters)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Hardcover with dust jacket. G/VG. Boards are slightly edge worn and bumped. Discolored to top edge of leaves. Jacket covered with mylar.

Rhetoric and Truth in France: Descartes to Diderot

Literature & Fiction

Oxford Univ. Pr.

In an inspirational study, the author of

Hermits: The Insights of Solitude

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

Traces the history of hermits, from the Greek Cynics, to the Desert Fathers, to more modern seekers of solitude, including Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and American poet Robert Lax

Hermits; The Insights of Solitude

World

Griffin

Poems by the modern Russian author reflect his faith in love and life and examine ethical and religious themes

Selected Poems (English and Russian Edition)

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

STALLWORTHY, Jon

Poetry

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. This ideal covered not just polite manners, but all the "civilized" norms of society and culture, as opposed to elements considered childish, irrational, savage or vulgar. Professor France shows how interpenetration and compromise between polite and rude, tame and wild, are central features of classical writings, arguing that polite society needed and desired its opposite.

Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 35)

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Rousseau: Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature)

This new textbook series is ambitious in scope. It will provide concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces. Each book is devoted to a single work and provides a close reading of that text, as well as a full account of its historical, cultural, and intellectual background, a discussion of its influence, and a guide to further reading. The contributors to the series give full consideration to the linguistic issues raised by each text, and, within the overall framework of the series, are given complete freedom in the choice of their critical method. Where the text is written in a language other than English, full account is taken of readers studying the text in English translation. While critical jargon is avoided, important technical terminology is fully explained and thus this series will be genuinely accessible to students at all levels and to general readers.

A study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. This ideal covered not just polite manners, but all the "civilized" norms of society and culture, as opposed to elements considered childish, irrational, savage or vulgar. Professor France shows how interpenetration and compromise between polite and rude, tame and wild, are central features of classical writings, arguing that polite society needed and desired its opposite.

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Greek As a Treat: An Introduction to the Classics

Diderot (Past masters)

Rhetoric and Truth in France: Descartes to Diderot

Hermits: The Insights of Solitude

Hermits; The Insights of Solitude

Selected Poems (English and Russian Edition)

Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 35)

Rousseau: Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature)

Rousseau: Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature)

Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 35)