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The Inner Life by Thomas à Kempis
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them.Now, Penguin brings you the ...Show more
The Lamp of Memory by John Ruskin
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential - not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some boo ...Show more
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the gr ...Show more
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of "1001 Nights". Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our ...Show more
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more
The Prince (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Niccolo Machiavelli; George Bull (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
The Social Contract (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Maurice Cranston (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." This statement exemplifies the main idea behind "The Social Contract", in other words that man is essentially free if it weren't for the oppression of political organizations such as government. Rousseau goes on to lay for ...Show more
The Symposium (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Plató; Christopher Gill (Translator); Desmond Lee (Translator)
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'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, Guardian In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges ...Show more
The Tao of Nature by Chuang Tzu
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and charming philosophy ever written, "The Tao of Nature" is also about perfection, perception, the value of ski ...Show more
Three Japanese Buddhist Monks (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Saigyo; Kamo no Chomei; Yoshida Kenko
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'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky' These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead ta ...Show more
Utopia by MORE THOMAS
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In "Utopia" Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity. Throughout hi ...Show more