One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A...more

Bacon wrote this book at the age of forty-eight, four years after the publication of his Two Books of the Advancement of Learning the first important work of the series that ...more

Francis Bacon is very informative and descriptive. His points are quite bold and judicious. This is one of the great books that made Francis Bacon a great author. Please ...more

Francis Bacon offers his opinion on many different topics in these essays, ranging from life and death to love and anger. Full of wit and wisdom, the essays are the perfect ...more

An exceptional work about the use of science as a means to improve the human condition, using the power of reasoning to find the truth. Showing how theories should be based ...more

Bacon's account of an ideal state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy; a utopia, described with philosophical and rosicrucian undertones. An excellent story of ...more

When the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his ...more

Hailed as the first great play to lay bare the emptiness of America's relentless drive for material success, Death of a Salesman is Miller's classic portrait of an ordinary ...more

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A classic novel about the misperceptions and misunderstandings that illustrate the divide between east and West, e.M. Forster...more

"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil." Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, ernest ...more

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong ...more

In the fall of 1948, ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for ...more

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects ...more

Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the thirties, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic. In ...more

Hannah ellis is thirty-five, unmarried and still living at Y Glyn, the family farm in Wales where she has been brought up by her mother and step-father, a forbidding man with ...more