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21) The Prince
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Great books of the Western world volume 23
Pub. Date
1952
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THE PRINCE (Italian: Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before...
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein; features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay; and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number...
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Great books of the Western world volume 39
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The critique of pure reason is translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn
The critique of practical reason and other ethical treatises are reprinted from Kant's Critique of practical reason and other works on the theory of ethics by the permission of the executors of the translator, Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
General introduction to the metaphysics of morals and The science of right, translated by W. Hastie, are reprinted by arrangement with T. & T. Clarke
The...
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Great books of the Western world volume v22
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Original and modern versions in parallel columns.
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