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In this elegant collection, the author takes on the subject of the individual in European history, suspecting that the End of History has been announced a little early. The environment inhabited by his poetry is pervaded by ideologies and upheavals; the speakers of his poems brag, explain, confess, resign, but are always human in their concerns.

Sean Tallow has two desires in life. One is to step into the shoes of his glamorous friend Daniel Pagett and the other is to establish the truth about the School of the Night, a shadowy group of Elizabethans who clustered around Sir Walter Raleigh.

`This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis 'Great Ideas' series:Religion by Karen ArmstrongArt by Simon Schama

VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. But then he meets his childhood sweetheart Hartley, and memories of her lovely, younger self crowd in - along with more recent lovers and friends - to disrupt his self-imposed exile.

'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. This book is suitable for those who believe in the equality of the sexes.

Examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, the author argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence.