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'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than        answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important        question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it.So what is the meaning of        life? In this witty, spirited, and stimulating inquiry, Eagleton shows how...

For most prisoners of war in Nazi Germany, the experience of captivity was very different from the dramatic and exciting picture still commonly associated with Colditz. Drawing on first-hand accounts by hundreds of British and Commonwealth ex-POWs, along with thousands of official documents, S. P. Mackenzie goes beyond the popular mythology to...

For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington recapture the play's true power, drama, and relevance to...

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Christina and Will have escaped Flambards for London with their heads full of dreams, only to find a whole new set of problems. Not only the basic ones of work and a place to live, but Will's single-minded ambition to design and pilot flying machines, which terrifies Christina every time he leaves the ground. Will is certain he can become a...

Timon of AthensThis edition in The Oxford Shakespeare is the first full edition to identify the play as a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. In his Introduction John Jowett explains how the play's loose ends and uneven writing arise from this collaboration, and he provides the fullest account of the play's performance history...