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Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphas ...Show more
Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detai ...Show more
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more