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david huMe
1711 – 1776, scottish
Dialogues Concerning Natural
Religion
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Martin Bell
Modeled on Cicero’s De natura deorum,
this classic treatise on natural religion
portrays the eighteenth-century
conflict between scientific theism and
philosophical skepticism. Hume savages
the traditional arguments for the existence
of God and suggests that the only religion
that can stand up to serious scrutiny is
one that is rationally and philosophically
derived by the human mind.
160 pp. 978-0-14-044536-7 $10.95
See The Portable Enightenment Reader.
A Treatise of Human Nature
Edited with an Introduction by
Ernest C. Mossner
The first work of this influential
philosopher is an unprecedented extension
of the Copernican revolution in science to
the realm of philosophy.
688 pp. 978-0-14-043244-2 $15.00
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elsPeth huxley
1907 – 1997, Kenyan (b. england)
The Flame Trees of Thika
Memories of an African Childhood
Huxley’s eloquent 1959 memoir ranks
in beauty and power with Isak Dinesen’s
Out of Africa. As pioneering settlers in
Kenya, Huxley’s family discovered—the
hard way —the world of the African.
With an extraordinary gift for detail and
a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her
childhood in a land that was as harsh as it
was beautiful.
288 pp. 978-0-14-118378-7 $15.00
“The secret of this book’s compulsive
attraction is the meeting of the fresh field and
the innocent eye.” —m a r y renault
j.k. huysMans
1848 – 1907, French
Against Nature (A Rebours)
Translated by Robert Baldick
Introduction and Notes by
Patrick McGuinness
This chronicle of the exotic practices
and perverse pleasures of a hero, who is
a thinly disguised version of the author,
was condemned by the public as a work
of alarming depravity—and was much
admired by Oscar Wilde.
256 pp. 978-0-14-044763-7 $16.00