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Augustine - The Confessions by Gillian Clark
$10.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Landmarks of World Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Augustine wrote his Confessions in the last years of the fourth century, he was just over forty and had abandoned a successful career for a life of prayer and study. He interpreted his past life as a search for God, in which understanding and commitment had been frustrated by wrong education, mista ...Show more
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France. Within the text, Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty.
Piers the Plowman by Langland William
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: World Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An allegorical satire on alliterative verse, describing the vision of the 14th-century poet who falls asleep in the Malvern Hills. Langland covers all aspects of political and theological debate, and echoing common sentiments in its satire of the corrupt church, especially the Friars.
The Book of the Courtier by Baldasarre Castiglione
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: World Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This text is a historical record of conversational leisure at a Renaissance Italian court, a manual of instruction for aspiring courtiers and a handbook. From it spring the behaviour manuals which continue to reveal the ways of arriviste, from social climber to young business executive.
Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
$6.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser. | Reading Level: good
Features three plays which are not about fate and irony, but are about character, choice and consequence. In "Antigone", a woman defies human law. "Oedipus the Tyrant" is the story of a ruler destroyed by the qualities which made him ruler in the first place. In "Oedipus at Colonus", the aged king achie ...Show more
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