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A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man�s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Carl Von Clausewitz On War by Carl von Clausewitz
37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
War...is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will' Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political though ...Show more
Collins Classics: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Collins Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
‘Opportunities multiply as they are seized.’ Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focusing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very care ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
30.00 NZD
Category: Christianity | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
20.00 NZD
Category: Greek Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by)
17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; D. Anderson (Editor); D.K. Swan (Editor); M. West (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Longman Classics Ser.
`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a Londo ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation by Rudolf Steiner
40.00 NZD
Category: Rudolf Steiner | Series: Classics in Anthroposophy Ser.
Published in 1904 (CW 10) This is the classic account of the modern Western esoteric path of initiation made public by Steiner in 1904. He begins with the premise that "the capacities by which we can gain insights into the higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us." Steiner carefully and precisel ...Show more
Introduction to Sufi Doctrine by BURCKHARDT, T
40.00 NZD
Category: Sufism | Series: Spiritual Classics Ser.
Titus Burckhardt s masterpiece, An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, is a distillation of the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a western audience in a highly intelligible form. It was Burckhardt's first-hand knowledge of Sufism that qualified him to u ...Show more