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Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Familiar Studies of Men and Books – Robert Louis Stevenson Of the nine essays collected in this volume, seven had appeared in the ‚Cornhill Magazine.‘ The whole set range in date from 1874 to 1881, and thus belong to the period of Stevenson’s life during which the papers in Virginibus Puerisque were written. The ‚ […]
Fables
Fables – Robert Louis Stevenson In this volume of Stevenson constantly deals with this elusive but mysterious element in human thought; but he holds it in close contact with the soundest kind of good sense. The little imaginary dialogue or story may carry us entirely out of the real world, but is certain in the […]
The Ebb-Tide
The Ebb-Tide – Robert Louis Stevenson In 1890, the year after first reaching Samoa but before he had properly settled there, Stevenson and his stepson planned and began what they intended to be a huge novel, a black, ugly, trampling, violent story, full of strange scenes and striking characters. It took them until 1893 to […]
A Child’s Garden of Verses
A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson In „A Child’s Garden of Verses“ all sorts of curious child’s thoughts, quaint ideas and humor are jumbled in together and jostle one another on the pages bubbling over with mirth and sunny expression. Yet we can scarcely read a line without perceiving under all this […]
Treatise on the Laws
Treatise on the Laws – Cicero As a companion work to the Republic, Cicero wrote the ‘Treatise on the Laws’, De Legibus, which was almost certainly not published in Cicero’s lifetime, and possibly had not received the last touches when he died. There are three books extant, with gaps in them; but a fifth book […]
Treatise on the Commonwealth
Treatise on the Commonwealth – Cicero Cicero’s comprehensive treatise on the Commonwealth known as De Republica is a work whose direct and practical purpose was to arouse Roman citizens to the dangers which then threatened destruction to the liberties of their country. In appealing to his countrymen „to rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves […]
The Orations Volume 4
The Orations Volume 4 – Cicero Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume four out of four […]
The Orations Volume 3
The Orations Volume 3 – Cicero Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume three out of four […]
The Orations Volume 2
The Orations Volume 2 – Cicero Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume two out of four […]
The Orations Volume 1
The Orations Volume 1 – Cicero Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume one out of four […]