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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This inspiring collection assembles the ideas of the great thinkers of the West as they wrestle with the hardest problem all of us face: how to flourish individually and together. The short quotes arranged chronologically give their voices poignancy and symphonic power, connecting the reader to humanity's ancient and ongoing search for goodness.' Anna Alexandrova, Professor of Philosophy at the University of CambridgeSofron Sofroniou is a Greek academic and public intellectual from Cyprus. He pursued postgraduate studies in History, Comparative Literature and Philosophy of Science, at the University of London's Kings College, University College and the London School of Economics. One of his teachers there was the eminent philosopher and author of The Open Society and its Enemies, Sir Karl Popper. He has worked for the Greek Service of the BBC, at the Middlesex Polytechnic-University and as an Adviser to the President of Cyprus. In this latter capacity he was a cofounder of the University of Cyprus and of the University of Nicosia, of which he is President Emeritus. He has published a number of papers on moral and political philosophy, an abridged version of Proust's great novel In Search of Lost Time [NPG] and he has also published an Anthology of Classical Greek Poetry and an Anthology of Greek Tragedy in Ancient and Modern Greek.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The greatest novel ever written - made readable at last.Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time has long been called the finest novel in any language, and just as long been avoided by readers intimidated by its length and its century-old translation. This edition changes that.Presented here in an abridged and updated version of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's celebrated English translation, this edition preserves the beauty and depth of Proust's original prose while making it accessible to a modern reader for the first time.Follow Proust's narrator through a life of love, loss, memory, and art, spanning the years from 1871 to 1922 and the French society that shaped him, as he searches for meaning in his own past and ultimately finds it in the act of writing itself.Whether you've always meant to read Proust and never known where to start, or you're revisiting a classic in a version built for the way we read today, this is the edition to finally take on one of literature's great achievements.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This inspiring collection assembles the ideas of the great thinkers of the West as they wrestle with the hardest problem all of us face: how to flourish individually and together. The short quotes arranged chronologically give their voices poignancy and symphonic power, connecting the reader to humanity's ancient and ongoing search for goodness.' Anna Alexandrova, Professor of Philosophy at the University of CambridgeSofron Sofroniou is a Greek academic and public intellectual from Cyprus. He pursued postgraduate studies in History, Comparative Literature and Philosophy of Science, at the University of London's Kings College, University College and the London School of Economics. One of his teachers there was the eminent philosopher and author of The Open Society and its Enemies, Sir Karl Popper.He has worked for the Greek Service of the BBC, at the Middlesex Polytechnic-University and as an Adviser to the President of Cyprus. In this latter capacity he was a co-founder of the University of Cyprus and of the University of Nicosia, of which he is President Emeritus.He has published a number of papers on moral and political philosophy, an abridged version of Proust's great novel In Search of Lost Time [NPG] and he has also published an Anthology of Classical Greek Poetry and an Anthology of Greek Tragedy in Ancient and Modern Greek.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The greatest novel ever written - made readable at last.Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time has long been called the finest novel in any language, and just as long been avoided by readers intimidated by its length and its century-old translation. This edition changes that.Presented here in an abridged and updated version of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's celebrated English translation, this edition preserves the beauty and depth of Proust's original prose while making it accessible to a modern reader for the first time.Follow Proust's narrator through a life of love, loss, memory, and art, spanning the years from 1871 to 1922 and the French society that shaped him, as he searches for meaning in his own past and ultimately finds it in the act of writing itself.Whether you've always meant to read Proust and never known where to start, or you're revisiting a classic in a version built for the way we read today, this is the edition to finally take on one of literature's great achievements.…