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The Origins of European Thought
Onians’ remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients
1984
Leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
Portrait of a Marriage
1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters.
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
George Orwell’s collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following, in 4 volumes: An Age Like This, 1920-1940 My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943 As I Please, 1943-1946 In Front of Your Nose, 1946-1950 One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell …
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The Birth of Tragedy
1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche