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ONE OF THE FEW COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED EDITIONS OF PLUTARCH'S LIVES--all fifty biographies, and eighteen comparisons."I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power or possessions." Plutarch "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." Plutarch "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." Plutarch "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." Plutarch "It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything." Plutarch Plutarch's Lives is a brilliant collection of biographies by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. By comparing a famous Roman with a famous Greek, Plutarch intended to provide model patterns of behaviour and to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans. There are fifty biographies of famous soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen, and an additional eighteen comparisons. The form of Plutarch's Lives was new; he outlined the birth, youth, achievements, and death of his characters, followed by a formal comparison. The Lives display formidable learning and research. Plutarch is essentially a moralist whose aim is to edify the reader; destiny follows from character, which he illustrates by anecdotes. Plutarch (AD 46 -119 ) was a philosopher, teacher, and biographer, whose writing strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century, especially the work of Michel de Montaigne and William Shakespeare. He lived mostly in Greece, where he was a local magistrate, though he was a Roman citizen who knew the Emperors Trajan and Hadrian.

Enid Bagnold served first as a nurse and then as driver in the First World War. She writes frankly about these experiences in "A Diary without Dates" and "The Happy Foreigner". She is best known for her novel "National Velvet."

Perhaps the most complete single volume Greek-English Lexicon. The essential intermediate reference for ancient Greek. This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is perhaps the most complete single volume Greek-English lexicon. It has been used and loved by generations of students of ancient Greek, and will be invaluable to those reading Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Polybius, Strabo, Lucian, the New Testament, and the Church Fathers. A must-have for serious students. Henry George Liddell (1811 - 1898) was dean of Christ Church, Oxford and later Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. His daughter Alice was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Robert Scott (1811 - 1887) was a professor of Greek at Oxford for over thirty years and Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

These children's adventure stories are now American classics.The fun adventures and intriguing mysteries of the Bobbsey Twins can be found in a series of 72 children's novels. They were written under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope between 1904 and 1979, with a separate series of 30 books published from 1987 through 1992. The stories tell of the adventures of two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who were 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who were six. This edition brings together in a single volume the first fifteen stories: The Bobbsey Twins, or Merry Days Indoors and Out, 1904 The Bobbsey Twins in the Country, 1907 The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore, 1907 The Bobbsey Twins at School, 1913 The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge, 1913 The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat, 1915 The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook, 1915 The Bobbsey Twins at Home, 1916 The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City, 1917 The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberrry Island, 1917 The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea, 1918 The Bobbsey Twins in Washington, 1919 The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West, 1920 The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp, 1921 The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair, 1922 So enjoy, once again, these magnificent stories.