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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extin ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His languag ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
When people use the adjective 'Kafkaesque', it is The Trial they have in mind - the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from unexpected sources. K. is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says he is innoce ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphas ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Solomon Northup
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles . . . Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at fi ...Show more
Upanishads by Suren Navlakha
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Category: Religion | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first expressed in the Rig-Veda more than 4000 years ago. Remarkab ...Show more
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
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More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless ...Show more
Voyage of the Beagle by CHARLES DARWIN
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Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropica ...Show more
Walden & Civil Obedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of what we call 'progress', the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seek ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more