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That One Should Disdain Hardships
The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
Perennial wisdom from one of history’s most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers“He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well—bravely, boldly, patiently—to what life threw at us. That's what we...
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A Bingewatcher's Notebook
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good...
Roman Architecture
A Visual Guide
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Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega’s masterpiece, a classic play of the Spanish Golden Age, in a vibrant new translation Lope de Vega “single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre,” writes Roberto González Echevarría in...
God and Philosophy
In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Étienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence....
Life in the Treetops
Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
Forest canopies have been characterized as one of the last biotic frontiers on Earth: tree crowns have been difficult to study scientifically because access to them has been so challenging. During the past two decades,...
Celestina
The first European novel, exquisitely translated by Margaret Sayers Peden A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina is a classic of Spanish...
The Iceman Cometh
"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."...
Long Day’s Journey into Night
“The definitive edition” (Boston Globe) of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his finest...
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
A modern Spanish masterpiece by one of the most extraordinary novelists of our time In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August...