Wordsworth Classics of World Literature

This book is translated by H. F. Cary. It comes with an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet Divine was added by... Ler mais

Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s "Leviathan" has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare... Ler mais

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had... Ler mais

Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403... Ler mais

With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace. «A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...» Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species... Ler mais

More’s "Utopia" is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to
Christian teachings,... Ler mais

Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich. Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today... Ler mais

With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the... Ler mais

Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw. "Democracy in America" is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an... Ler mais

Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets... Ler mais

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War’. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western... Ler mais