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Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 11
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 22
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
Original and modern versions in parallel columns.
Contains both Chaucer's epic poem, detailing tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy, and Canterbury Tales, a frame story of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together.
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 8-9
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 18
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
46) Faust
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 47
Language
English
Description
Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development.
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Series
Lexile measure
1340L
Language
English
Description
The moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones, and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 28
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
49) The six Enneads
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 17
Language
English
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Description
"The Six Enneads ... is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. 270 AD). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas and they were founders of Neoplatonism. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought."--Wikipedia.