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Oedipus the King is Sophocles' legendary rendition of the myth of the great king Oedipus, perhaps the best known of all of the Greek Tragedies. When an oracle foretells that the young prince Oedipus will grow up to murder his father he is cast out of the kingdom by the king who hopes by doing so that he will avoid his fate. Oedipus grows up and many years later, not knowing his own identity, or the identity of his father, meets him at a crossroad where they argue and the king... more...

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This is an electronic edition of the complete poems complemented by Ovid biography. Table of Contents. Amores ("The Loves"), five books, published 10 BC and revised into three books ca. 1 AD. ("Transformations"), 15 books. Published ca. AD 8. Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love"), three books. First two books published 2 BC, the third somewhat later. Remedia Amoris ("Remedy of Love"), 1 book. Published 5 BC. Medicamina Faciei Feminae ("Women''s Facial Cosmetics"), also known as The Art of Beauty, 100 lines surviving. Published ca. 5 BC. The Court of Love by Chaucer. The History of Love by Charles Hopkins. Appendix:. Ovid Biography. About and Navigation. more...

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Complete interlinked edition of Machiavelli''s six best known works complemented by biography and analysis: The Prince, The Art of War, Discourses on Livy or Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini, The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, and History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy. Table of Contents. List of Works:. 1. The Prince, 1513. 2. The Art of War, 1519-1520. 3. Discourses on Livy or Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, 1512-1517. 4. Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini, 1502. 5. The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, 1520. 6. History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy or Florentine Histories, 1520-1525. Appendix:. 1. Biography of Niccolò Machiavelli. 2. Introduction by W. K. Marriott and Analysis of The Prince. 3. Analysis of The Art of War. 4. Analysis of The Discourses on Livy. 5. List of Works in Chronological Order. 6. About and Navigation. Complete interlinked edition. Includes the modern view of history and the analysis of Machiavelli''s works. more...

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Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China’s Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for 229 years. Zhang’s early life was marked by the expansive sense of progress that permeated Ming culture: the flourishing of reformist schools of Buddhism; wide-scale philanthropy; the education of women; a celebration of the visual arts, writing, and music; intellectual pursuit of medicine and science—this was truly a time of cultural creativity and renaissance in China. When the Ming dynasty was overthrown in the Manchu invasion of 1644, Zhang Dai’s family lost their fortune and their way of life. Zhang Dai fled to the countryside, where, as a writer of tremendous skill, acuity, and passion, he spent his final forty years recounting his previous life as a way of leaving a legacy to his children and rebuilding a spirit shattered by the violent upheaval he had witnessed. Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence has pored over Zhang Dai’s extraordinary documents and vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China. This absorbing book illuminates a culture’s transformation and reveals how China’s history affects its place in the world today. more...

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Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994). more...

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