Aesop
The Life and Fables of Æsop
Æsop was probably a real person; although it is impossible to be sure which of the surviving stories were really his. The date given him by Herodotus is about 570 BC, and there is nothing to make this date improbable. The Greek collection which goes under his name contains stories of many ages. A number of Æsop’s fables are found in India, and it is not certain where they were first told.
Sir Roger L’Estrange, the translator of the present book, was born in 1616 and died in 1704. He was a staunch Royalist, an author and pamphleteer, and Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1685 to 1689.
He published a great many books himself, besides pamphlets and other ephemeral works. He translated Josephus, Cicero on Friendship, Quevedo’s Visions, Senneca the Younger’s Morals, and other works.
His Æsop, which includes fables drawn from other sources, was published in 1692, and has been re-published down through the years, his easy and vigorous colloquial style being well suited to the subject.
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The Essential of Edward Fitzgerald
The Essential Edward FitzGerald
Here in one volume are the collected chief works of the Victorian writer and poet, Edward FitzGerald, complete with original notes, prefaces, glossary and appendix.
For the great majority of English readers, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám means only these particular translations, the first, second and fifth editions done so divinely well by FitzGerald, when the Victorian Age of Empire was at its height.
Here also is his less well-known translation of the mystical Súfi allegory, Salámán and Absál, by the Persian scholar and poet, Jámí, as well as FitzGerald’s biographies of both Omar Khayyám and Jámí.
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A season on four rivers
The London artist and sculptor Caryl Stockham lived for many years on an old converted wooden sailing boat called ‘Four Rivers’, moored above Hampton Court on the River Thames at Ash Island.
A season on Four Rivers captures all the joys, frustrations and seeming magic of Caryl’s time on the river through one glorious year, illustrated by 27 original and beautiful watercolours.
Filled with humour and keen observation, A season on Four Rivers is a genuinely delightful read.
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ring of bright whisky
It may be, of course, that you will understand, sympathise with and fully approve of our dream of removing ourselves as far as possible from the City at the first available opportunity.
But it may, on the other hand, be quite clear to you that we must have been soft in the head. For Mankind is divided into two species. There are those who are never quite at ease outside the City, and they seem quite unable to see the point of view of those of us who are never quite at ease while we’re in it, any more than we can see theirs.
I know people who get fidgety in Hyde Park. They find it an irrelevant place of draughts and discomfort where God ran out of asphalt one day, so that one must walk carefully, for fear of mud. Where it is unsafe to stray far from the road, in case it rains. A place where there is nothing to watch, nothing to buy, nothing to do and nowhere to sit. An unused place, where not a single one of all those trees supports so much as a cigarette machine. The haunt of dogs, children and insects, (they hate insects) but of no interest or profit to a civilised grown-up.
There are others of us, though, who go of our own free will to the Park, to reassure ourselves that there are still places where things are normal and uncomplicated and permanent. Where things grow and you can breathe clean air and be by yourself.…
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tales of the table
Tales of the table is a book for Foodies, a book for those of us with an ‘ardent or refined interest in food and alcoholic beverages’, a book that will take you on a delightful and entertaining tour of gastronomic and literary miscellany over the years.
Not so much an anthology of how food, drink and dining have featured in stories, diaries, poems and plays throughout history, Tales of the Table is better described as a not-quite-random collection of bits and pieces that please and delight; or, a shameless wallow in descriptions of sensual gratification!
For food, and the enjoyment of it, is embedded in the English language like gold in a mother-lode.
With original illustrations, a comprehensive index, and a unique collection of over twenty-two recipes recalling many of the flavours and styles of English cooking that have been all but lost, this is a book that can satisfy both literary, and literal, appetites.
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Biography of g.g. leibnitz
Cette compilation est avant tout une biographie de G.G. Leibnitz écrite par M.L. de Neufville en 1734. Ce livre est le premier de trois livres en cours de préparation et sert d’introduction pour l’œuvre de G.G. Leibnitz: Les Essais de Théodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, la Liberté de l’Homme, et l’Origine du Mal. Nous avons choisi de publier cette biographie en Français du début du 18e siècle, après quelques changements typographiques.
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Paperback edition ISBN 9781910388242.
Essais de théodicée. Tome I
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Essais de théodicée. Tome II
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