This volume of Bernard Levin's writing contains 60 items selected from over 2000 articles produced for The Times. His ever-curious mind can turn a single thought into a serious study of mankind, or make his readers laugh aloud at the things mankind gets up to.
Ethical Studies (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy)
by F. H. Bradley
British Idealist F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) was one of the most distinguished and influential philosophers of his time. He made contributions to metaphysics, moral philosophy and the philosophy of logic. The author of Appearance and Reality (1893), a classic in metaphysics (also reissued in this series), he rejected pluralism and realism. In this polemic, first published in 1876, Bradley argues against the dominant ethical theories of his time. Essays in this book entitled 'Pleasure for Pleasure'...
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England
by Francis Bacon
Remarques Critiques sur les uvres d'Horace, Vol. 1: Avec une Nouvelle Traduction (Classic Reprint)
by Horace Horace
The Stonewall Reader
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The Publishing Triangle Tor.com, Best Books of 2019 (So Far) Harper’s Bazaar, The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019 The Advocate, The Best Queer(ish) Non-Fiction Tomes We Read in 2019 June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary o...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (Volume 35)
by Charles Dudley Warner
Tableau de la Littérature Française Au Xviie Siècle
by Jacques Demogeot
Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Myles na Gopaleen; but it is also a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes with remarkable subtlety of the frustrations and pathologies of this gener...
