Renaissance Man Essentials

Discover the must-read books that shaped the Renaissance era. Explore essential works on art, science, philosophy, and literature to cultivate a true Renaissance mindset.

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Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of …
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Works

by Sir Thomas Malory

This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sir Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory …
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Utopia

by Thomas More

Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.
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Candide

by Francois Voltaire

"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which …
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

 

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The Professor and the Madman

by Simon Winchester

Mysterious (mistîe · ries), a. [f. L. mystérium Mysteryi + ous. Cf. F. mystérieux.] 1. Full of or fraught with mystery; wrapt in mystery; hidden …
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

U.S. poet/writer 1809-1849.
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The Iliad

by Homer

The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OA A Penguin Classic Dating …
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