‘What you hold in your hands is a handbook for living: it is an account of how the greatest minds have spoken to us on how to grow and prosper as flesh-and-blood human beings.’Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man is unlike any other philosophy book you may have read. It is inspired by a single concept: that, to thrive in the world, we need ready access to the practical wisdom of our forebears. Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man answers that need by introducing for the general reader the most powerful and enduringly relevant works of great thinkers from around the world, including: •Plato, The Republic•Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics•Marcus Aurelius, Meditations•Chuang-tzu, The Writings of Chuang-tzu•Machiavelli, The Prince•Castiglione, The Courtier•Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom•Hazlitt, ‘On Success’•Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil•Emerson, ‘Spiritual Laws’Together these works teach us how to achieve excellence; how to obtain and exercise power, advance in the world, and live gracefully; how to cultivate nobility of soul; and – above all - how to be one’s own man. There is no better primer in the art of living well.

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Lynn, Andrew

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Howgill House Books

‘Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. The basic premise of this book is that strength and weakness have a spiritual dimension.’Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man takes a radically new approach to the question of spirituality. Its purpose is to bring the spiritual classics alive so that they can once again serve their original and true purpose: to guide and inspire us as we make our way through life. Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man introduces for the general reader selections from the most profound and inspirational of spiritual classics from around the world, including: •The Kybalion •Ecclesiastes •Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching •Buddha, Dhammapada and ‘On Governance of Thoughts’•Chuang-tzu, The Writings of Chuang-tzu •Huainanzi, ‘The Old Man Who Lost His Horse’•Bhagavad Gita •Al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness •Rumi, Masnavi •Pascal, Pensées •Schopenhauer, ‘The Vanity of Existence’•Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra •Allen, As a Man ThinkethThese works speak to us of the fundamental principles of spiritual wisdom, the mysterious primordial force of the ‘Tao’, the Buddhist art of maintaining mental and emotional equilibrium, and the essential features of Hindu and Sufi self-cultivation, as well as modern approaches to self-realization. There is no better primer in the art of awakened living.

Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man (Classics for the Modern Man)

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Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare’s original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically. Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn. This first volume contains the comedies as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: Comedies

Literature & Fiction

Lamb, Mary

Morris, Harrison

Lamb,Charles

Dramas & Plays

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare's original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically. Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn. This second volume contains the tragedies as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: Tragedies

Shakespeare Tales: Roman Tales

STOKES, WINSTON

Quiller-Couch, Arthur

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known.But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works.This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare’s original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically.Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.This fifth volume contains the English histories as retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch and Harrison Morris. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: English Histories

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare's original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically. Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn. This third volume contains the tragicomedies as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb and Harrison Morris. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: Tragicomedies

‘Just as in the parable of the boiling frog who does not perceive the gradual increase in the temperature of the water and is boiled alive, so we have by steady increments lost much of our liberty without realizing it. The works in this book cannot give that back; what they can do is to raise our consciousness of the many alternative paths we could have taken—and perhaps, if we have nerve enough, still can take.’Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man serves three purposes: it provides an introduction to the greatest political philosophers of the Western tradition; it allows these profound thinkers to speak to the assumptions and prejudices of our own era on topics ranging from democracy and human rights to equalism and speech laws; and it brings the most enduringly relevant of their works alive again for the modern reader. Presenting the very best of Western political philosophy, Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man introduces and includes selections from: Plato, RepublicAristotle, PoliticsMachiavelli, The Prince and DiscoursesHobbes, LeviathanLocke, Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning TolerationRousseau, Discourse on Inequality and The Social ContractBurke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceBentham, Anarchical FallaciesTocqueville, Democracy in AmericaBastiat, The LawMill, On LibertyRoosevelt, Citizenship in a RepublicThere is no better starting point for those who seek a genuinely fresh and insightful view on the major questions of our political existence.

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It has become conventional to think of the ethical life as one lived in compliance with abstract and universalistic moral rules. But there is another view represented by the ancient tradition of virtue ethics: that the ethical life is all about cultivating a better self through a commitment to personal excellence and self-overcoming. Classic Ethics for the Modern Man sets out to explore the tradition of virtue ethics as a practical philosophy. It does so by introducing several of the most insightful and enduringly relevant of the classic texts, including:•Plato, The Republic & Phaedo•Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics•The Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius•Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy•Spinoza, Ethics•Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature•Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals•Schiller, ‘On Grace and Dignity’•Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling•Schopenhauer, ‘On Human Nature’•Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil & The Genealogy of Morals•Mill, On Liberty & UtilitarianismThere is no better way to rediscover what the pursuit of virtue meant to our forebears—and how it can inspire and enrich our lives today.

Classic Ethics for the Modern Man

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