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Middle Ages/Middle History
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Allen Mawer - Vikings
This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University of Durham: late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes...
Kevin Johnson
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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
478
Plato (Πλάτων) - Protagoras
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The...
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Ancient
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Plato (Πλάτων) - Lesser Hippias
This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in the canon. Socrates tempted by irony to deflate the pretentious know-it-all...
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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
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Plato (Πλάτων) - Critias
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed...
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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
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Plato (Πλάτων) - Alcibiades I
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters:...
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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
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Benjamin Jowett - Gorgias
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of «Republic» and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The...
Kevin Johnson
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Poetry
479
Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime...
Kevin Johnson
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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III
This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited...
Brendan Stallard
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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Middle Ages/Middle History
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The Venerable Bede - Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic...
Kara Shallenberg
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Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Around the World with the Children
Frank G. Carpenter
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