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10th Grade
by Joseph Weisberg

ISBN 0812966627 (0-8129-6662-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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For all those times you wished you knew what your high school crush was thinking, Joseph Weisberg's 10th Grade provides a generous--and hilarious--peek inside one boy's journal of a year marked by unrequited lust and awkward social maneuvers. A sophomore at Hutch Falls High School in New Jersey, Jeremy Reskin trolls the halls and writes what he sees from his vantage point as a social nonentity. Not much of a student, not much of a jock, and definitely not much of a ladies' man, Jeremy reveals his talent for expressing himself through writing (even though his every thought reads like a giant run-on sentence, complete with dyslexic spelling and sporadic punctuation). Jeremy's sophomore story is so achingly familiar that it's nearly impossible to put this book down. Weisberg deftly captures a time that readers will feel nostalgic for--even while cringing--and he creates a very real cast of characters that any one of us could have known in class. The complicated, often traumatic limbo between childhood and adulthood rings so true from the beginning to the end of this debut novel that you will want everyone you still talk to from high school to read it. As for Jeremy, all we can hope is that things get easier by the time he graduates. --Emily Russin [via]
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin

ISBN 1419153366 (1-4191-5336-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.
The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole culture. "Bibliographical and Historical Contexts", expanded and introduced by a new Editors Note, presents biographical, historical, and cultural documents contemporary with the novels publication. Included are a biographical essay by the acclaimed Chopin biographer Emily Toth, "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler" with selections from the conduct books of the period in which Chopin lived and wrote, and period fashion plates from Harpers Bazar. A comprehensive "Criticism" section, introduced by a new Editors Note, contains expanded selections from hard-to-find contemporary reviews of the novel; two letters of mysterious origin written in response to the novel; and Chopins "Retraction," which followed The Awakenings negative reception. These are followed by twenty-seven interpretive essays, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, that provide a variety of perspectives on The Awakening, including essays by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Nancy Walker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Paula A. Treichler, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lee R. Edwards, Patricia S. Yaeger, Elizabeth Ammons, and Elaine Showalter. A Chronology of Chopins life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
by Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad

ISBN 0743487672 (0-7434-8767-2)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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I used this book for a college class... But read it again because it was SOOOO good! [via]
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison

ISBN 1400033411 (1-4000-3341-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. [via]
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Beowulf
by Gareth Hinds

ISBN 0763630233 (0-7636-3023-3)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr

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This exhilarating graphic-novel edition of an ancient classic honors the spirit of the original as it attracts modern readers.

The epic tale of the great warrior Beowulf has thrilled readers through the ages and now it is reinvented for a new generation with Gareth Hindss masterful illustrations. Grendels black blood runs thick as Beowulf defeats the monster and his hideous mother, while somber hues overcast the heros final, fatal battle against a raging dragon. Speeches filled with courage and sadness, lightning-paced contests of muscle and will, and funeral boats burning on the fjords are all rendered in glorious and gruesome detail. Told for more than a thousand years, Beowulfs heroic saga finds a true home in this graphic-novel edition. [via]
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Beowulf
by Gummere

ISBN 1420921584 (1-4209-2158-4)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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Dating from between the 8th and 11th century Beowulf is the oldest known English epic poem. Beowulf is a narrative poem about the kings and heroes of Denmark and Geatland. It is a story of mythic creatures and medieval battles between men and monsters. Follow the adventures of Beowulf, the story's title character, as he battles the Grendel, the Grendel's mother, and a dragon. As you read imagine yourself in one of the taverns or royal courts of Old England hearing the great epic Beowulf, for the first time as you might well have then. Passed down by oral tradition Beowulf's author is to this day unknown. The original manuscript was written in Anglo-Saxon or Old English. Presented here is the faithful translation of Francis B. Gummere. [via]
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Beowulf
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791040828 (0-7910-4082-8)
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Beowulf
by Magnus Magnusson, Julian Glover, Sheila MacKie

ISBN 0750911042 (0-7509-1104-2)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd

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The poem 'Beowulf' is one of the glories of European Literature. It was composed in Anglo-Saxon verse early in the eighth century and has come down to just one surviving manuscript. This is the text that Julian Glover has taken for this book. [via]
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Beowulf
by Michael Swanton

ISBN 0719051460 (0-7190-5146-0)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr

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Beowulf is to English what the Odyssey and Iliad are to Greek literature ? the oldest example of vernacular literature of any substance not only in England but in the whole of western Europe. Since its rediscovery and the appearance of the first printed editions in the middle of the last century, this moving and dramatic epic has attracted considerable scholarly attention, and Dr Swanton is able to draw on this wealth of scholarship to present a considered and balanced introduction to the poem. Explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, expand the poets more esoteric allusions and offer background information on contemporary manners and customs. A prose translation faces the text, which should be invaluable to both students and the general reader.
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Beowulf: An Adaptation by Julian Glover of the Verse Translations of Michael Alexander and Edwin Morgan
by Magnus Magnusson, Julian Glover, Sheila MacKie

ISBN 0862993377 (0-86299-337-7)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd

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Beowulf: Letterpress Edition
by Bertha Rogers

ISBN 0913559598 (0-913559-59-8)
Softcover, Birch Brook Pr

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Beowulf: With the Finnesburg Fragment
by W. F. Bolton, C.L. Wrenn

ISBN 0859895181 (0-85989-518-1)
Softcover, Univ of Exeter Pr

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This timely new edition of Beowulf strives to retain the four distinctive features of the previous editions: textual conservatism, concise presentation, concentration on the needs of literary students, and Wrenn's superb erudition and experience. For the most part it leaves intact Wrenn's basic intentions and editorial decisions; with rare exceptions, they have been altered only because of new evidence that Wrenn could not have seen.
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Candide
by Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 1416500308 (1-4165-0030-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is the best of all possible worlds. The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, et cetera, all without losing his resilience and will to live and pursue a happy life.
This Modern Library edition, published to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House,
is a facsimile of the first book ever released under the Random House colophon. It includes the timeless illustrations by Rockwell Kent, a twentieth-century artist whose wit and genius serve as a counterpart and compliment to Voltaires.

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Candide and Related Texts
by Voltaire, David Wootton

ISBN 0872205460 (0-87220-546-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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This lively new translation of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece is accompanied by a short selection of writings of each of the most prominent optimists to whom Voltaire was responding -- Leibniz, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Wolff, Rousseau, and Malebranche -- and thus offers a better perspective of the intellectual context in which Candide was written, and of its place in Enlightenment though, than does any other edition. [via]
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Candide Ou L'Optimisme
by Voltaire

ISBN 0844210765 (0-8442-1076-5)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co

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Candide, Or, Optimism
by Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0882951009 (0-88295-100-9)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson

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This edition is essentially that of Richard Aldington edited with reference to the French editions by Andr Morize and George R. Havens. Norman L. Torrey's introduction is a brief commentary on Voltaire's central purpose of reducing the doctrine of philosophical optimism to absurdity. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Voltaire and a selected bibliography. [via]
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Cliffscomplete Chopin's the Awakening
by Sheri Metzger

ISBN 0764587285 (0-7645-8728-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.
CliffsComplete The Awakening offers insight and information into a work considered scandalous when it arrived from the turn-of-the-20th-century presses. Every generation since has been able to identify with some social or thematic aspect of the novel.
Discover what happens to this heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and motherhood to be bondage and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of The Awakening with these additional features:
A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
Bibliography and historical background on the author, Kate Chopin
A look at late-19th-century intellect, religion, politics, and society
Coverage of Chopin's career and reaction to the novel
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Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
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Cliffscomplete King Lear
by Sidney Lamb, Stacy Mulder

ISBN 0764585711 (0-7645-8571-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.
In this tragic play, Lear, a ruler in pre-Christian Britain, is described as a "very foolish old man." Grossly misjudging his daughters, he endures a harrowing experience and emerges as a man "more sinned against than sinning." This most tragic of Shakespearean plays speaks to us repeatedly about fate and chance, destiny and the gods. But we also are reminded that humanity has free will and King Lear's choices lead to madness.
Enhance your reading of King Lear and save valuable studying time all at once with CliffsComplete King Lear. Studying is easier with features that include
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A look at the historical context and structure of the play
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A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
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Cliffsnotes Candide
by Francois Marie Arouet

ISBN 0822002833 (0-8220-0283-3)
Softcover, Cliff Notes

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.
CliffsNotes on Candide explores the best known philosophic tale from Voltaire. The tale is a vehicle for his profoundest views on politics, religion, and philosophy. At the same time, it is an adventure tale about a young hero who travels far and wide and experiences great dangers.
With this study guide, youll see why Voltaire is considered among the greatest satirists in literature. Along with detailed explanations of the plot, your understanding will increase with insight into the life and times of the author. Other features that help you study include
Background on Voltaires contemporaries and influences
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A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
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Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain

ISBN 1416534733 (1-4165-3473-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A 19th-century New Englander wakes up in King Arthur's Age of Chivalry for a hilarious tale of anachronisms, romantic history, and biting social satire. [via]
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Cry, the Beloved Country

ISBN 0743262174 (0-7432-6217-4)
Softcover, Scribner

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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, "We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. [via]
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno
by Carol Forman, Alighieri Dante

ISBN 0812034112 (0-8120-3411-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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A guide to reading "The Inferno" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Dante's Comedy: The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri

ISBN 0828318840 (0-8283-1884-0)
Softcover, Branden Pub Co

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Translated by Nicholas Kilmer, and illustrated by Benjamin Martinez. Dante called his great work The Comedy - signifying a narrative with a happy ending. The narrative is about the journey of the human spirit through trial, and toward salvation. The journey takes place in three segments of which this, "The Inferno," is the first. [via]
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Dante's Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, Marcus Sanders

ISBN 0811842134 (0-8118-4213-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc

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Product Details Hardcover: 199 pages Publisher: Ecco Press (July 20, 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 0880012919 ISBN-13: 978-0880012911 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,890,212 in Books [via]
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Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poets
by Daniel Halpern

ISBN 0880013737 (0-88001-373-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A new telling of Dante's Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, andwith all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetrymanages the near-impossible task of preserving the subtle power and lyric nuance of the Italian original, while seeking out an entirely natural English music. No other version has so vividly expressed the horror, cruelty, beauty, and outrageous imaginative flight of Dante's original vision.
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The Divine Comedy
by Frederic Will, Alighieri Dante, Cynthia Brantley Johnson

ISBN 1416500235 (1-4165-0023-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
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The first volume of The Divine Comedy--Dante begins his downward journey through the seven circles of Hell.

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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
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Homer's Iliad
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791082407 (0-7910-8240-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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In his introduction Harold Bloom states that, together with the Bible, the Iliad "represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality." The piece is the focus of this title in our Bloom's Notes series. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on the work, this text includes a structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

ISBN 0808510576 (0-8085-1057-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides)
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791077683 (0-7910-7768-3)
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Ian Pollock's Illustrated King Lear
by William Shakespeare, Ian Pollock

ISBN 0894806734 (0-89480-673-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co

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The Iliad
by Homer, Stanley Lombardo

ISBN 0872203522 (0-87220-352-2)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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This translation provides an accurate text of the Iliad in a modern English poetic form. It has been designed, first and foremost, for people who are reading Homer's Iliad for the first time. The book is accompanied by a complete glossary, maps and other study aids intended to help ensure that one's initial venture into the world of the Iliad is a fruitful one. [via]
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Iliad of Homer
by Homer

ISBN 1404309527 (1-4043-0952-7)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

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With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer's Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life's work, and dedicated himself to capturing the 'soul' of the poem. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 1406502448 (1-4065-0244-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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Wildes most popular play is considered his wittiest and finest comedy. The plays subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People hints at its clever wordplay, ingenious epigrams, and sly British humor. It is a story of multiple mistaken identitiesboth deliberate and unintentional- and what ultimately becomes a hilarious exercise in keeping everyones name and pseudonym straight.
First performed in 1895, it has enduring appeal as dramatic literature and in live theatrical performance. This edition includes an appendix with Wildes earlier versions of the play and deleted scenes that illustrate Wildes creative process.

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The Inferno
by Alighieri Dante, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. Esolen

ISBN 0812970063 (0-8129-7006-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An informative introduction and commentary accompany this classic translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell, available in a dual-language edition. [via]
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Inferno
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Pearl, Lino Pertile

ISBN 0812967216 (0-8129-6721-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dantes literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vivid detail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment. [via]
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James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce

ISBN 0791045668 (0-7910-4566-8)
Softcover, Facts on File

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James Joyce envisioned A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as an autobiographical look at the epiphanies of his life. This text compiles some of the most noteworthy critical examinations of the novel. Subjects covered include language as structure in the novel, the motif of hands, Joyce as a symbolist, and more.
This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791045706 (0-7910-4570-6)
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Kabir: Ecstatic Poems
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0807063800 (0-8070-6380-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr

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Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations.

By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written. [via]
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1420926179 (1-4209-2617-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Lear
by Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine

ISBN 0743452941 (0-7434-5294-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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In "King Lear," one of Shakespeare's greatest and most enduring plays, an aging father's demand that his daughters publicly declare their love for him triggers a reaction that involves nations and brings suffering and death to his entire family. The play takes ordinary jealousies, demands for love, sibling rivalries, desires for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme. In this play, we see ourselves and our small vices magnified to gigantic proportions; also, through the character of Lear, we see the end of our lives, with old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, helplessness, pride, and finally, perhaps, wisdom.
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Designed to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a "Modern Perspective" written by an expert on that particular play. [via]
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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791059251 (0-7910-5925-1)
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791036669 (0-7910-3666-9)
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings accomplishes a controlled poignance in representing a portrait of the young artist as a black woman. Her novel is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper, Kerstin Hasenpusch

ISBN 1400052998 (1-4000-5299-8)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr

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Kafka's classic on family, fatherhood, salesmanship, wise men, and insects. [via]
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Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James Theatre, London, 1895
by Oscar Wilde, Joseph Donohue, Ruth Berggren

ISBN 0861403789 (0-86140-378-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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This unique volume reconstructs the original 1895 production of Wilde's timeless classic. Based upon a new, reconstructive method for the study of theatrical performance that aims to set the play securely in its historical and cultural moment, the edition offers a wealth of detail about the staging and acting and numerous first production and early revival photographs. The reconstructed text itself, differing in important ways from the 1899 first edition, recaptures the essential comic vitality of the play. [via]
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce

ISBN 1416500316 (1-4165-0031-6)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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Originally published in serial format, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce's early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. At the center of the novel is the protagonist Stephen Dedalus whose life is depicted from its various stages starting in childhood and moving through early adulthood. The language of the novel changes throughout the book to correspond with the artistic development of Stephen Dedalus as he ages and matures. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a masterful depiction of the process of self-discovery that is indicative of the early stages of everyone's life. [via]
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard

ISBN 0802132758 (0-8021-3275-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two minor characters from Hamlet offer a novel view of the melancholy Dane. [via]
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Slaughter House Five
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0783883706 (0-7838-8370-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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The Tragedy of King Lear
by William Shakspeare

ISBN 080491012X (0-8049-1012-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co

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Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell
by Peter Whiteford, Ursula Bethell

ISBN 0864735049 (0-86473-504-9)
Softcover, Victoria Univ Pr

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Ursula Bethell was a modernist poet who helped shape New Zealand's literary scene between the two world wars. This collection of letters tells the story of her early life of travel and social work in Europe and opens a window on her subsequent writerly life as she describes the origins of many of her poems.
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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Candido, O El Optimismo
by Voltaire

ISBN 140683260X (1-4068-3260-X)
Softcover, Echo Library

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The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".

Desde un punto de vista sardónico, la obra sigue las peripecias del protagonista Cándido en su primer encuentro con el precepto del optimismo leibniziano de que «todo sucede para bien en este, el mejor de los mundos posibles» y en una serie de aventuras subsecuentes que refutan de forma dramática el famoso precepto a pesar del obstinamiento con el que el personaje se aferra a éste.
La novela satiriza la filosofía de Leibniz, y es un muestrario de los horrores del mundo del siglo XVIII. En Cándido, Leibniz está representado por el filósofo Pangloss, tutor del protagonista. A pesar de observar y experimentar una serie de infortunios, Pangloss afirma repetidamente que «tout est au mieux» («todo sucede para bien») y que vive en «le meilleur des mondes possibles» («el mejor de los mundos posibles»).

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