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  • Aristophanes in Britain

    Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century

    by Peter Swallow ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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    Max Fernsby and the Infinite Toys

    by Gerry Swallow, Peter Gaulke ...
    Narrated by Oliver Wyman ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 14 min

    The Naughty List meets Elf in Max Fernsby and the Infinite Toys, a charming, hilarious middle grade Christmas tale about three friends who join forces with the two wayward elves to save the holidays!Max Fernsby seems like your typical ten-year-old kid, but when a red bag literally falls on his head from the sky, Max finds he suddenly has the power to produce any toy in the world!But what Max doesn ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Aristotle Beyond the Academy in Britain and Ireland 1660-1922

    by Edith Hall, Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Rory McInnes-Gibbons, Peter Swallow ...
    This book explores the questions of when, where, how and why Aristotle has appeared in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales since the Restoration in 1660, through to Irish Independence in 1922.The primary focus is on ethics and politics, natural science, and rhetoric and the arts. Chapters explore the impact of specific events in the history of Aristotelian reception over this period, taking the ... Read more

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  • Aristophanic Humour

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Peter Swallow, Edith Hall ...
    This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy – what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes' humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy was above all else designed to amuse people, to win the dramatic competition by making the audience laugh the hardest. Any discussion of Aristophanes ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Max Fernsby and the Infinite Toys

    by Gerry Swallow, Peter Gaulke ...
    Illustrated by Marta Kissi ...
    The Naughty List meets Elf in Max Fernsby and the Infinite Toys, a charming, hilarious, illustrated middle grade Christmas tale about a found family of three friends who join forces with the two wayward elves to save the holidays!Max Fernsby seems like your typical 10-year-old kid, but when a red bag literally falls on his head from the sky, Max finds he suddenly has the power to produce any toy ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

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    Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophersDavid Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosophy is grounded in an honest assessment of nature—human nature in particular. The Great Guide is ... Read more

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  • The Infidel and the Professor

    David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

    by Dennis C. Rasmussen ...
    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now ... Read more

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  • Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

    by Linda C. Dowling ...
    "Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... [This identity] was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity."—Nineteenth- Century Literature"Dowling's study is an ... Read more

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  • Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86

    by Michael Oakeshott ...
    Series Book 6 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    From the 1920s to the 1980s Oakeshott filled dozens of notebooks with his private reflections, both personal and intellectual. Their contents range from aphorisms to miniature essays, forming a unique record of his intellectual trajectory over his entire career. This volume makes them accessible in print for the first time, drawing together a host of his previously inaccessible observations on ... Read more

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  • Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

    by Iain Ross ...
    Series Book 82 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland, explored by the young Wilde on excavations with his father, informed both his encounter with the archaeology of Greece and his conviction that ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Classics

    Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

    by Edith Hall, Henry Stead ...
    A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the ... Read more

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  • George Berkeley

    A Philosophical Life

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    A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful ... Read more

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