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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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Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (150+ works): Treasure Island, New Arabian Nights, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & more. Table of Contents. Novels. The Black Arrow. David Balfour / Catriona, sequel to Kidnapped. The Ebb-Tide. Kidnapped. Master of Ballantrae. Prince Otto, a Romance. St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Treasure Island. The Wrecker. The Wrong Box. Weir of Hermiston. Short story collections. Island Nights'' Entertainments (3 stories). Merry Men (6 stories). New Arabian Nights (6 stories). The Dynamiter (14 stories). Short stories. The Body-Snatcher. A Christmas Sermon. Fables. The Misadventures of John Nicholson. The Story of A Lie. The Waif Woman. Travel writing. Across the Plains. Essays of Travel. An Inland Voyage. The Silverado Squatters. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Non-Fiction. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes. Essays In The Art of Writing. Other Essays. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu. A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. In the South Seas. Lay Morals and Other Papers. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Memories and Portraits. Records of a Family of Engineers. Vailima Letters. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. Poetry. Ballads. A Child''s Garden of Verses. Moral Emblems. New Poems. Vailima Prayers. Songs of Travel. Underwoods. Plays by W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson. Admiral Guinea. Beau Austin. Deacon Brodie. Robert Macaire. more...

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Shows the importance of the Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes on manuscripts, for understanding ancient literary criticism. more...

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The Annals is a gripping account of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero and the brutality that marked their reigns. Tacitus deplores their depravity, proof of the corrupting force of absolute power. J.C. Yardley's vivid and accurate translation is complemented by a thorough introduction and notes. - ;'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike'. Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the 'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping account of the Roman emperors who followed Augustus, the founder of the imperial system, and of the murders, sycophancy, plotting, and oppression that marked this period in Rome. Tacitus provides the earliest and most detailed account of Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, and his history also relates the great fire of Rome in. the reign of Nero, and the persecution of the Christians that followed. He deplores the depravity of the emperors, whose behaviour he sees as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power. J. C. Yardley's translation is vivid and accurate, and Anthony A. Barrett's introduction and notes provide invaluable historical and cultural context. - more...

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This is the classic book about Aristophanes. Russo examines the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere texts, and never loses sight of the stage. more...

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