The Prince - Softcover

Niccolo Machiavelli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039309149X ISBN 13: 9780393091496

Publisher: W. W. Norton, 1977

Synopsis

1977 W.W. Norton & Company trade paperback, 5th printing. ISBN: 039309149x. Niccolo Machiavelli. One of the earliest looks at the philosophy of power and the course it should take when ruling a country. Created the term 'Machiavellian

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. Adams was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics; Strains of Discord; Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation; The Land and Literature of England; and Shakespeare―The Four Romances. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Candide by Voltaire, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 039309149X
• ISBN 13: 9780393091496
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 283