Andrew Lynn is a lawyer, writer, and author of the ‘Classics for the Modern Man’ series. His mission as writer is to draw upon classic texts and traditional wisdom in order to help us answer the most profound questions that we face as human beings.
Classics for the Modern Man Series
The “Classics for the Modern Man” series introduces to modern readers the most powerful works of practical wisdom from the great thinkers of the past. Each volume comprises lively and modern introductions followed by carefully selected and edited extracts from the original works.
This series provides a vital link to the past for a generation cut off from the wisdom of its own ancestors.
Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man
“What you hold in your hands is a handbook for living: it is an account of how the greatest minds have spoken to us on how to grow and prosper as flesh-and-blood human beings.”
Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.”
Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man
‘Just as in the parable of the boiling frog who does not perceive the gradual increase in the temperature of the water and is boiled alive, so we have by steady increments lost much of our liberty without realizing it. The works in this book cannot give that back; what they can do is to raise our consciousness of the many alternative paths we could have taken—and perhaps, if we have nerve enough, still can take.‘
Classic Ethics for the Modern Man
It has become conventional to think of the ethical life as one lived in compliance with abstract and universalistic moral rules. But there is another view represented by the ancient tradition of virtue ethics: that the ethical life is all about cultivating a better self through a commitment to personal excellence and self-overcoming.
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Shakespeare Tales Series
“Shakespeare Tales” is a five-volume series providing engaging and readable prose versions of Shakespeare’s complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare’s original language and mood.
This totally new edition presents the tales as retold in prose by Charles and Mary Lamb, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Harrison Morris, and Winston Stokes, each genre and tale being preceded by a fresh and thought-provoking introduction for the twenty-first-century reader.
The series includes not only the comedies and tragedies, but also the tragicomedies, Roman tales, and English histories. Each volume is sumptuously illustrated with the classic illustrations of Sir John Gilbert.
Shakespeare Tales: Comedies
This first volume of Shakespeare Tales contains the comedies as retold in prose by Charles and Mary Lamb and Harrison Morris. Each tale is prefaced by a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.
Shakespeare Tales: Tragedies
This second volume of Shakespeare Tales contains the tragedies as retold in prose by Charles and Mary Lamb. Each tale is prefaced by a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.
Shakespeare Tales: Tragicomedies
This third volume of Shakespeare Tales contains the tragicomedies as retold in prose by Charles and Mary Lamb and Harrison Morris. Each tale is prefaced by a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.
Shakespeare Tales: Roman Tales
This fourth volume of Shakespeare Tales contains the Roman tales as retold in prose by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Harrison Morris, and Winston Stokes. Each tale is prefaced by a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.
Shakespeare Tales: English Histories
This fifth volume of Shakespeare Tales contains the English histories as retold in prose by Arthur Quiller-Couch and Harrison Morris. Each tale is prefaced by a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.
Generativity
We are all in search of answers to the mystery of human achievement. Why do some people excel while others do not? In answering that question, Generativity will take you on a journey from the ancient Zoroastrians and the secret gospels of Nag Hammadi to the most recent scientific insights on expertise and peak performance.
Tracing the stories of outstanding individuals in the light of both traditional wisdom and modern science, Generativity examines the universal source of superior achievement in athletics, art, science, music, scholarship, politics, and business.
Generativity: The Art and Science of Exceptional Achievement
Generativity is a uniquely accessible and wide-ranging account of what it is that makes us exceptional.
We are all in search of answers to the mystery of human achievement. Why do some people excel while others do not?