This text was selected by Maxine Kumin as one of five volumes published in 2003 in the "National Poetry Series". Arranged in four parts - each associated with a particular Louisiana city - the poems in "Rhythm & Booze" trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle bet...more
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography.
With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own satiety, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social, organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556 translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustratio...more
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of choice for their study and teaching of Plato's most influential work. In this brilliant revision, C D C Reeve furthers Grube's success both in preserving the subtlety of Plato's philosophical argument ...more
The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy in which he deals with the basic principles of rights and of virtues. It comprises two parts: the "Doctrine of Right," which deals with the rights that people have or can acquire, and the "Doctrine of Virtue," which deals with the virtues they ought to acquire. Mary Gregor'...more
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, desp...more
One of the best-loved and oft-quoted stories of "the man who invented Christmas"--English writer Charles Dickens--A Christmas Carol debuted in 1843 and has touched millions of hearts since. Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn't like. . .and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is...more
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