Portable Library

  • The Portable Renaissance Reader

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    Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, D?rer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Ra… [more below]

    • Series: Portable Library
    • Author: Ross, James Bruce
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: August 25 1977
    • ISBN10: 0140150617
    • Language: English
  • The Portable Edmund Burke

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    The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during … [more below]

    • Series: Portable Library
    • Author: Burke, Edmund
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 624
    • Publish Date: July 01 1999
    • ISBN10: 0140267603
    • Language: English
  • The Portable Oscar Wilde

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    Includes the following works: Novels–The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays–Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings–De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use

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    • Series: Portable Library
    • Author: Wilde, Oscar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 741
    • Publish Date: July 30 1981
    • ISBN10: 0140150935
    • Language: English
  • The Portable Western Reader

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    The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for “Western” writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reade[more below]

    • Series: Portable Library
    • Author: Various
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 624
    • Publish Date: July 01 1997
    • ISBN10: 0140230262
    • Language: English
  • By: Plato

    The Portable Plato

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    Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagi… [more below]

    • Series: Portable Library
    • Author: Plato
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 704
    • Publish Date: March 01 1977
    • ISBN10: 0140150404
    • Language: English
  • The Portable Greek Reader

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    It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a pe… [more below]

    • Series: Portable Library
    • Author: Auden, W. H.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 736
    • Publish Date: August 25 1977
    • ISBN10: 0140150390
    • Language: English
  • The Portable Karl Marx

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    Includes the complete Communist Manifesto and substantial extracts from On the Jewish Question, the German Ideology, Grundrisse, and Capital, a broad representation of his letters, and lesser-known wo… [more below]

    • Series: Portable Library
    • Author: Marx, Karl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 720
    • Publish Date: March 31 1983
    • ISBN10: 014015096X
    • Language: English
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