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On the Soul: and Other Psychological Works by Aristotle, Fred D. Miller, Jr
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱612.00"...the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul..."What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima(On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not... -
On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius, Ronald Melville
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱610.00This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or... -
The Fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, Books 36-40 by Cassius Dio, Robin Waterfield (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱651.00'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.'Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last... -
Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel by Francoise Sagan
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱499.00A sensational 1954 French novel that has become a contemporary classic. Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood,... -
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother... -
Several Perceptions by Angela Carte
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel. -
Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen Classic Novel by Jane Austen
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱699.00This edition of Jane Austen's classic novel features a suede-like custom cover with beautiful metallic foiling and a ribbon marker. A brilliant novel describing two parallel love stories, Sense and Sensibility remains a time-honored classic in... -
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder - The Penguin English Library by Evelyn Waugh
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead... -
Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier - Wordsworth Classics by George Orwell
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱499.00₱299.00George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the... -
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱525.00Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriageThe Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of... -
Selected Letters by Cicero, P. G. Walsh
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱766.00Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome and witnessed first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by the tyranny of Pompey, Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian. One of Rome's most memorable and keenly... -
On Life and Death by Cicero, John Davie (Editor), Miriam T. Griffin (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱595.00Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58... -
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Rise of Rome by Livy
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱677.00"The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods"Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from... -
Elegies of Chu - Oxford World's Classics by Nicholas Morrow Williams
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱736.00Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic... -
Eirik The Red and Other Icelandic Sagas by Oxford University Press
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱522.00Selected by Gwyn Jones—the eminent Celtic scholar—for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses... -
Pensées and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Blaise Pascal
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments which became known as the Pensées, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and... -
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱565.00After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the... -
Taken At The Flood by Agatha Christie
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his roomA few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger, P. G. Walsh
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱679.00In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and... -
The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon, Robin Waterfield, Tim Rood
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱550.00The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited at the end of the fifth century BC by a young Persian prince, Cyrus, who rose in revolt agains his brother, the King of Persia. After Cyrus' death, the army...