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The Practicing Stoic
“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read—it’s …
Hamlet's Mill
A truly seminal and original thesis, this is a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two. In this classic work of …
The Socratic Method
A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet …
Wally the Wordworm
Help instill a love of words and language—and an early appreciation for their vast possibilities—with this read aloud for children.A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself …
The Last Island
“A deft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy.”—Washington Post A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated …
The Tale of John Barleycorn
John Barleycorn must die—so everyone agrees from the ploughmen to the tinker in this exquisitely illustrated edition of the old English ballad. But who will prove to be the …
Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
The liberating power of anger has rarely felt so good and healing as in this complete collection of a landmark in feminist poetry.“She digs her teeth into the slaveries of woman, …
Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor
Make your writing and speech shine like the sun! Here’s the most entertaining and instructive book about both enlivening and clarifying communication with the art of comparison. …
Ferlinghetti
“No one mulling this gentle record will fail to be moved.”—San Francisco Chronicle Poet, publisher, bookseller, activist—this is the story of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the bookshop …
Farnsworth's Classical English Style
“An original and absorbing guide to English style. Get it if you can.”—Wall Street Journal Say it with style—on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds …
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
“I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (præteritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it – and as only he could have written it …