Lucretius was born in 99 BC, and On the Nature of Things is his only surviving work. His aim was to free the Roman world from its two great terrors – the gods and death. Lucretius argues that the gods are not actively involved in life, so need not be appeased; and that death is the end of everything human – body and soul – and therefore should not be feared. But On the Nature of Things is also a poem of striking imagery, intimate natural observation and touching pathos. It is one of the most influential writings in Western thought.
Pieni runotyttö
L. M. Montgomery
audiobookbookRunotyttö maineen polulla
L. M. Montgomery
audiobookbookBaseball Joe of the Silver Stars
Lester Chadwick
audiobookbookA journey to the centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
bookIl libro delle bestie
Rudyard Kipling
audiobookbookCuore
Edmondo De Amicis
bookCuento de Navidad
Charles Dickens
bookLas aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
bookBarba Azul
Charles Perrault
bookL'Isola del tesoro
Robert Louis Stevenson
audiobookI racconti delle fate
Charles Perrault
audiobookLa Petite Poule rousse
Anonyme Anonyme
audiobook
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
audiobookbookHedda Gabler: skuespill i fire akter (1890)
Henrik Ibsen
bookCrime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
audiobookbookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
audiobookbookLove in a Cold Climate
Nancy Mitford
audiobookB. J. Harrison Reads Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
audiobookMrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
audiobookbookLullabies for Little Criminals : A Novel
Heather O'Neill
audiobookFathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
audiobookbookCrime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
audiobookbookWhite Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
audiobookThe Trial
Franz Kafka
audiobookbook