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Selected Philosophical Letters Translated with introduction and commentarySeneca's    Letters to Lucilius are a rich source of information about ancient Stoicism, an influential work for early modern philosophers, and a fascinating philosophical document in their own right. This selection aims to include those which are of greatest philosophical...

Ben Bradley investigates what is good about life and what is bad about death. He argues that pleasure is what makes life go well, and that death is bad for its victim even though the victim ceases to exist, because it deprives him of a continuing good life. Bradley considers intriguing related questions, including how death can be made less bad....

Treasure Island meets The Beach in the return of the great adventure novel....

Writing about Cinema in the Modernist PeriodThis book brings together two major strands of research: the exploration of early        film criticism and theory and cinema's impact on literary texts, including the work        of H.G.Wells and Virginia Woolf. It also offers new research on early writings about        film, including the work of the...

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Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans. A leader in the 1916-1923 Revolution, and a contemporary of Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, he subsequently penned two classic autobiographical accounts of the struggle in later years:  On Another Man's Wound and    The Singing Flame. He...