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The age of Alexander

ten Greek lives
2011
An English translation of the ancient Greek text that examines the lives of nine Greek statesmen and men of action, including Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetrius, and Pyrrhus.

Tomorrow is now

2012
Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto, in which, she traces the country's struggle to embrace democracy and she speaks out against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance.

An enemy of the people

an adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen
2010
A stage adaptation of the drama "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen in which a Norwegian doctor is shunned by the townspeople after he discovers their famous spring water is really poisoned.

On the good life

[selected writings of] Cicero
1971
Cicero made it his task to resolve the contradictory systems of earlier philosophers.

Lord Jim

1949

The real story of Ah-Q and other tales of China

the complete fiction of Lu Xun
2009
Presents English translations of Lu Xun's fictional stories that depict life in Imperial China, featuring "The Real Story of Ah-q," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Divorce," and including a chronology of Lu Xun's life.

The master and Margarita

1997
Presents an English translation of the Russian novel written at the height of Stalin's regime, in which Satan, in the guise of a man named Woland, arrives in Moscow and begins to wreak havoc in the literary community, honing in on his real target, an author called The Master, who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate.

The financier

2008
Financier Frank Cowperwood is willing to do anything to fight his way to the top of America's financial world, but he does not realize what he is sacrificing until it is too late.

The complete essays

2003
A collection of over 100 essays by sixteenth-century French writer Michel de Montaigne, written in chronological order, which includes textual notes, notes on the translation, explanation of the symbols, and index.

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