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  | | On Life and Death(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Miriam T. Griffin, John Davie, St Paul's School, London Davie Translator Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-964414-8, ISBN: 0-19-964414-4 "'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure'Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the dominatio ..." |
 | | Et tu, Brute? The Best Latin Lines Ever (Hardback) by Harry Mount, John Davie Hardcover, Published 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-399-40097-8, ISBN: 1-399-40097-5 |
 | | Satires and Epistles(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Robert Cowan M.D., John Davie, Robert Horace /. Cowan, John Davie Horace, Robert Cowan Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956328-9, ISBN: 0-19-956328-4 "'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of ..." |
 | | The Bacchae and Plays (Penguin Classics) by John Davie, Richard Rutherford, R. Rutherford, R. B. Rutherford, Euripides Euripides Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044726-2, ISBN: 0-14-044726-1 "Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land ..." |
 | | Electra and Other Plays(98th Edition) Euripides (Penguin Classics) by John Davie, Richard Rutherford, Ruskin Bond, Davie Euripides Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044668-5, ISBN: 0-14-044668-0 "Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors. Written in the period from 426 to 415 BC, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens and Sparta, these five plays are haunt ..." |
 | | Medea and Other Plays(Reprint) (Penguin Classics) by John Davie, Richard Rutherford, Pearson Education, Davie Euripides Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by Penguin Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044929-7, ISBN: 0-14-044929-9 "Previously published as Alcestis and Other Plays, the Penguin Classics edition of Euripides' Medea and Other Plays is translated by John Davie with introductions and notes by Richard Rutherford.Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. Medea is a towering figure who demonstrates Euripides' unusual willingness to give voice to a woman's ca ..." |
 | | Dialogues and Essays(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Tobias Reinhardt, John Davie, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tobias Reinhardt Seneca, St Paul's School, London Davie Translator, John Davie Seneca Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955240-5, ISBN: 0-19-955240-1 "Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full range of his philosophical interests. Here the Stoic philosopher outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Ne ..." |
 | | Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon(2nd Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, John Davie, Claudia L. Johnson Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-284082-0, ISBN: 0-19-284082-7 "'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn ..." |
 | | Persuasion(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen, Claude Rawson, John Davie Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283361-7, ISBN: 0-19-283361-8 "'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's ..." |
 | | Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen, John Davie, Terry Castle, Claude Rawson, John Austen Davie Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283368-6, ISBN: 0-19-283368-5 "Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger moral, philosophical, and social issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, the inexcusability of not thinking for oneself, and the painful difficulties (especially for women) involved in growing up. Lady Susan and The Watsons are earl ..." |
 | | Epigrammes and Elegies by John Davie Hardcover, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-484-26681-9, ISBN: 0-484-26681-0 |
 | | Epigrammes and Elegies (Classic Reprint) by John Davie Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-332-94411-8, ISBN: 1-332-94411-6 "Excerpt from Epigrammes and ElegiesThree yea res together in this towne hath heme, Yet my lord Chancellors toombe he hath not (cent, Nor the new water-write, nor the elephant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t ..." |
 | | Persuasion(Updated) (The World's Classics) by Jane Austen, John Davie, Claude Rawson, C.J. Rawson, Varios: Autores Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1990 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282759-3, ISBN: 0-19-282759-6 "Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language." |
 | | Alcestis and Other Plays(Updated) (Penguin Classics) by Richard Rutherford, John Davie, John N. Davie Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1996 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044643-2, ISBN: 0-14-044643-5 "Euripides' tragedies proved highly controversial even in his own lifetime, presenting his audience with unexpected twists of plot and violently extreme emotions; for many of today's readers and spectators, he seems almost uncannily modern in his insights. Euripides was the key figure in transforming the familiar figures of Greek mythology from awe-inspiring but remote heroes into recognizable, fallible human beings. His characters, all ..." |
 | | Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson, James Kinsley, John Davie, John N. Davie, Johnson Austen, Not Found, Vv.Aa. Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953554-5, ISBN: 0-19-953554-X "'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.'Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn he ..." |
 | | Dialogues and Essays(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Tobias Reinhardt Seneca, John Davie, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, John N. Davie Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280714-4, ISBN: 0-19-280714-5 "Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full range of his philosophical interests. Here the Stoic philosopher outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Ne ..." |
 | | Northanger Abbey;(1st Edition) And, Persuasion; (Oxford English novels) by Jane Austen, John Davie, And James Kinsley Hardcover, 479 Pages, Published 1971 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-255343-0, ISBN: 0-19-255343-7 |
 | | Et tu, Brute? The Best Latin Lines Ever by Harry Mount, John Davie 273 Pages, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-399-40101-2, ISBN: 1-399-40101-7 "... Ed McLachlan Page 78: Flora, Goddess of Flowers © ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0 |
 | | Satires and Epistles by John Davie 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-162015-7, ISBN: 0-19-162015-7 "30 One efiigy . . . the other of wax: representing Canidia and the lover she wishes to influence. The wax figure's potential to be moulded and melted fits the lover's role. Wool is often used in spells for binding the beloved, and seems to have been associated with female flesh (C. A. Faraone, Ancient ... bugger'; and the thief 's name may suggest his voracity. Inscriptions show that micturition and defecation on statues were real ..." |
 | | Oxford World's Classics Ser. Dialogues and Essays by Tobias Reinhardt, John Davie Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-281-76986-2, ISBN: 1-281-76986-X |
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