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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen: Four Major Plays

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Miss Read

Christmas at Fairacre

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Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics

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Hector Hawton

Philosophy for Pleasure

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Vasari's Lives of the Artists stretches from Cimabue and Giotto down to the golden epoch of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Vasari (1511-74) was himself a painter, but his fame rests on these biographies in which he gathered together all the current knowledge of the Florentine artistic heritage and triumphantly fused it with contemporary Italian theories of art. As a critic Vasari is impressive, and time has added immense historical importance to the great popular success his work achieved from the start.

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Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Artists

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Under the Greenwood Tree is Thomas Hardy's one and only rural idyll, a startling contrast to his other Wessex tales.

Set in the village of Mellstock, and its surrounding farms and woodlands, it interweaves the story of Dick Dewy and Fancy Day's lingering courtship with the battle for survival of the old Mellstock string choir against the mechanical church organ of the new vicar, the Reverend Maybold.

Under the Greenwood Tree appears to be pastoral romance at its most sunlit and good humoured, and has been called the ‘most nearly flawless of Hardy's novels'. Yet, as Tim Dolin shows in his Introduction, there is a darker side to this paradise, seen particularly in the conflicts arising over anachronistic customs and rituals, and the ambiguities surrounding Fancy's forthcoming marriage. For Hardy, who drew out the associations with his own childhood in later revisions, the novel came to epitomize a past that had been forever lost to him and to England.

This Penguin Classics edition, based on the two-volume first edition of 1872, includes Appendices which reflect the unique textual history of the novel.

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Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School

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The Catholic Source Book is a vast collection of information to help people of faith learn, renew, teach, and live the risen life of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church. The ten chapters include: Prayers, An Overview of the Tradition, Scripture, Church, Liturgy, The Liturgical Year, Devotions in Catholic Tradition, Veneration of Saints and Heroes, Catholic Symbols, and Word and Phrase Origins. — Quick view Add to Cart

Peter Klein

Catholic Source Book

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Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot’s first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it “a country story—full of the breath of cows and scent of hay.” Adam Bede is an earnest and virtuous carpenter who is betrayed by his love, Hetty Sorrel, a pretty yet foolish dairymaid who is seduced by a careless young villager. The bitter, tragic consequences of her actions shake the very foundations of their serene rural community.

While Adam Bede represents a timeless story of seduction and betrayal, it is also a deeper, impassioned meditation on the irrevocable consequences of human actions and on moral growth and redemption through suffering.

Introduction by Joanna Trollope

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George Eliot

Adam Bede

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Although he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus (ca. 50–ca. 130 AD) maintained that all people are free to control their lives and to live in harmony with nature. We will always be happy, he argued, if we learn to desire that things should be exactly as they are. After attaining his freedom, Epictetus spent his entire career teaching philosophy and advising a daily regimen of self-examination. His pupil Arrianus later collected and published the master's lecture notes; the Enchiridion, or Manual, is a distillation of Epictetus' teachings and an instructional manual for a tranquil life. Full of practical advice, this work offers guidelines for those seeking contentment as well as for those who have already made some progress in that direction.

Epictetus received much of his education from the Roman Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus, with whom he studied the traditional Stoic curriculum of logic, physics, and ethics. After attaining his freedom, he spent his entire career teaching philosophy and advising a daily regimen of self-examination. Epictetus' pupil Arrianus later collected and published the master's lecture notes; the Enchiridion, or Manual, is a distillation of Epictetus' teachings. It centers on the belief that the only aspect of life entirely within an individual's control is one's own mind. The external world, including the body, is mostly beyond control, and external events are neither good nor evil--only attitudes toward those events can take on a moral quality. An enemy can do bodily harm but cannot damage the soul, just as no one can prevent anyone from being virtuous--which, Epictetus explains in this remarkable guide, depends completely upon allowing the prescriptions of nature and the dictates of reason. — Quick view Add to Cart

Epictetus

Enchiridion

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"In this work, we do not intend to deal with the liturgical aspects of baptism, but are going to set down the teaching contained in the New Testament concerning this rite of initiation. This project is a vast and important one....And since it is so broad and so complex, we have thought best to approach it by way of various themes, rather than by making a separate study of each inspired author in turn, which would have involved much repetition of idea.

"After an introductory chapter, which details the texts that constantly reappear in the rest of the book, we proceed to a study of the religious context of contemporary Judaism in which Christ's institution of baptism had its roots. D. Mollat then propounds the imagery which St. Paul used to account for all aspects of baptism, and Fr. Boismard considers the origin of the formula 'I renounce Satan, his pomps and his works.' Thereafter, we consider in turn the relationship between baptism and faith, the community aspect of baptism, and the work of baptism in renewing our lives and incorporating us into Christ." --From the Introduction, Augustin Grail, O.P. — Quick view Add to Cart

Augustin Grail

Baptism in the New Testament: A Symposium

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Considered by many to be E. M. Forster’s greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of “telegrams and anger.” When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home―Howards End―to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve.

Written in 1910, Howards End is a symbolic exploration of the social, economic, and intellectual forces at work in England in the years preceding World War I, a time when vast social changes were gestating. In the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, Forster perfectly embodies the competing idealism and materialism of the upper classes, while the conflict over the ownership of Howards End represents the struggle for possession of the country’s future.

Forster refuses to take sides in this conflict. Instead he poses one of the book's central questions: In a changing modern society, what should be the relation between the inner and outer life, between the world of the intellect and the world of business? Can they ever, as Forster urges, “only connect”? — Quick view Add to Cart

E.M. Forster

Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics Edition)

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Implementing a selection of diverse and historically important essays from classic, modern and contemporary philosophers Fred Felman introduces students to the essential ideas and philosophical issues of freedom and determinism, mind-body dualism problem or the nature of persons (philosophical anthropology) , the existence of God and the problem of evil (philosophical theology), and epistemology (the philosophical study of knowledge) — Quick view Add to Cart

Fred Feldman

Introduction to Philosophy: Revised Edition

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Among the doctrines and symbols of Christianity perhaps none has been as subject to theological neglect as that of the Trinity. Recently, however, there have been stirrings in the theological world seeking to remedy this neglect. The present volume, a historical and systematic investigation of the doctrine of the Trinity, is intended as one contribution to this renewed theological discussion of the trinity of God. In the first part, the author examines the New Testament matrix of an emerging trinitarianism, the shaping of the tradition by the Greek fathers, and the systematization of the doctrinein Augustine and medieval Scholasticism. The second part explores the post-Enlightenment understanding of the Trinity in Schleiermacher and Hegel and the twentieth-century interpretation of Barth, Tillich, Rahner, Pannenberg, Moltmann, Muhlen, Whitehead, and others. Both parts are critical and systematic examinations of the ways in which the Trinity has been understood and interpreted in the past and in contemporary thought, undertaken with a view to the reappropriation of the tradition for the present.

The historical and critical parts lay the foundation for the third part of this study, a contemporary reinterpretation of the Trinity which complements Aquinas's metaphysical concept of "person" with psychological and subjective dimensions brought out by contemporary thinkers. The result of this rethinking of the Trinity is an understanding of God not as a self-enclosed Absolute but as a self-communicating personal deity, and understanding that avoids the Scylla of Modalism on the one hand and the Charybdis of Subordinationism on the other. In this way, the Trinity is made manifest as at once a doctrine concerning God in his own being and identity and a doctrine concerning God's saving action in history--as both a mystery in God and a mystery in salvation. — Quick view Add to Cart

William J. Hill

The Three-Personed God: The Trinity As a Mystery of Salvation

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"I am not more certain that I breathe than that the assurance of the wrong or error of any action is often the one unconquerable force which impels us, and alone impels us, to its prosecution." Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with the perverse is seen at its most appalling in these tales, in which killers are betrayed by wail of a cat or the beat of a heart--or perhaps by their own perverseness. And Poe's love of extremis takes us to premature burials, into the maelström, and to the bedside of a man mesmerized in the final moments of life--who lives on to declare "I am dead."

This selection includes six of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales of horror together with his three masterly stories of the unknown at sea: "MS. Found in a Bottle," "A Descent into the Maelström," and his only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." — Quick view Add to Cart

Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Cat and Other Stories

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In his essays Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) penned a portrait of himself in a frame of timelessness. Following an entirely new, non-chronological method of autobiography, he set out to test his responses to situations and to ascertain the permanence of his impressions and opinions. Against a brilliant range of subjects--from cannibals to physiognomy--the man displayed his objectively detached, tireless in his search for truth, and at all times restrained. His essential modesty is revealed nowhere more clearly than in his famous medal with its inscription Que scais-je?

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne: Essays

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As Buddhism spread along the Silk Road through Central Asia and into the East Asian cultural sphere, it made its way into Korea. In this new cultural setting, the religious tradition was adopted by the court. Buddhism served as a culture carrier for the Chinese ideas that were spreading eastward and at the same time it still preserved much of its Indian heritage. The richness of the religious expression to be found in Buddhist texts, rituals and institutions added much to the life of Korea. This volume touches on many of the complex issues which characterized this cultural interchange between Korea and other Buddhist cultures, an interchange that has been little studied in the West. — Quick view Add to Cart

Lewis R. Lancaster

Introduction of Buddhism to Korea: New Cultural Patterns

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