New in August: Five Great Dialogues of Plato

August 26, 2009—Coyote Canyon Press is pleased to announce the publication of Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo. These dialogues by Plato, the thinker who lay the foundations of Western philosophy, have been translated from the original Greek by the scholar and classicist Benjamin Jowett, whose translations are known for their elegance and accuracy.

“The influence of Socrates on his contemporaries can hardly be exaggerated, especially on Plato . . . and his influence on later philosophers, largely through Plato, was also very great. This impact, on his contemporaries at least, was due not only to his theories but in large measure to his character and personality, that serenely self-confident personality that emerges so vividly from Plato's writings, and in particular from his account of Socrates' trial, imprisonment, and execution.”—G. M. A. Grube

“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button By F. Scott Fitzgerald “Fitzgerald was probably attracted to this form by its tension between romanticism and realism, for the challenge of fantasy is to make impossible events convincing.” —Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Elements of Style By William Strunk, Jr. “Coyote Canyon Press is about to release the original ‘Elements of Style’ as penned and privately published by Cornell University English Prof. William Strunk, Jr. in1918.” —Chicago Tribune