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18Th-Century Women Dramatists: The Innocent Mistress/the Busybody/the Times/the Belle's Stratagemby Susanna Centlivre, Elizabeth Griffith, Mary Pix, Hannah Cowley, Melinda C. FinbergISBN 0192827294 (0-19-282729-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192835084 (0-19-283508-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aeschylus Agamemnonby Denys Lionel Page, Denniston J.D.ISBN 0198721307 (0-19-872130-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aeschylus Agamemnonby Eduard FraenkelISBN 0198141017 (0-19-814101-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus Agamemnon'Book summary:Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including0 suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Agamemnon is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama. Useful features include full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Agamemnon is aimed primarily at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America. [via]
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Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Antigoneby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307743 (0-226-30774-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Alchemistby Ben Jonson, Gordon CampbellISBN 0192834460 (0-19-283446-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'Book summary:This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction, notes, and glossary further bring to life these timeless comedies for the modern reader. [via]
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The Alchemist and Other Playsby Ben Jonson, Gordon CampbellISBN 0192822527 (0-19-282252-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Alchemist and Other Plays; Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fairby Ben Jonson, Gordon CampbellISBN 0198121504 (0-19-812150-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Annotated Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Anne Doody, Wendy E. Barry, Mary E. Doody JonesISBN 0195104285 (0-19-510428-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller, enjoying successful television adaptations on PBS and The Disney Channel, and captivating children and adults alike with the irresistible charms of its remarkable heroine, Anne Shirley. This wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds. Indeed, when Maud Montgomery decided to reject the sermonizing formulas of the children's books of her day, she brought to life a character much closer to Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and Tom Sawyer--also orphans, like Anne--than to the self-sacrificing, conformist heroines then in demand. In doing so, Montgomery subtly questioned the values of her society--the stifling restraints of its religion and most especially its treatment of women--while giving readers all the pleasures of her considerable story-telling gifts.
Now, in this first fully annotated edition of Anne of Green Gables, readers will appreciate more clearly than ever before the scope and depth of this extraordinary novel. Editors Margaret Anne Doody, Mary Doody Jones, and Wendy Barry provide a richly illustrated, completely revised text, along with hundreds of notes describing the real-life characters and settings Anne encounters, the autobiographical connections between Anne and Maud Montgomery, and the book's astonishing range of literary, biblical, and mythological references. Additional essays offer fascinating background information on such topics as the geography and settlement of Prince Edward Island (where Anne takes place); the education, orphanages, music, and literature of Anne's time; and the horticulture, homemade artifacts, and food preparation that are so prevalent in the story. Margaret Anne Doody supplies a comprehensive introduction, which situates the novel in its literary and social contexts, explores those aspects of Montgomery's life most relevant to the story, examines revisions in the manuscripts, and provides an overall sense of both the impulses that drove Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables and the larger concerns it dramatizes so compellingly. This edition also contains a chronology of Montgomery's life, an extensive bibliography, songs and poems that appear in the text, and a selection of original reviews of the book. This wealth of material enables readers to grasp the marvelous multi-layeredness of the novel and to understand more fully its place in both its own time and in ours.
Elegantly and beautifully designed, with generous illustrations from previous editions, photographs of the places the novel inhabits, and explanatory drawings that reproduce the texture of Anne's world, The Annotated Anne of Green Gables is a major event in the publishing history of one of the world's most charming stories. [via]More editions of The Annotated Anne of Green Gables:
The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Pamela KnightsISBN 0192823000 (0-19-282300-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby David Mayer, Lew WallaceISBN 0192831992 (0-19-283199-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburhby Kevin Crossley-Holland, Heather O'DonoghueISBN 0192833200 (0-19-283320-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh'Book summary:The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty. Set in the legendary Scandinavian past, Beowulf comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing the terrifying monster Grendel and its vengeful mother. A lifetime later, Beowulf courageously prepares for another great battle when a fiery dragon threatens his own kingdom. This acclaimed translation contains a critical introduction, a full index of names, and extensive notes. [via]
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, the wittiest and best-loved book of a genius who is still unequaled in his ability to spin art out of philosophy, became a huge bestseller in Europe after it was published in 1759. Voltaire, skeptical of the systems of philosophy that were floated about to explain the workings of the world, used this satirical story about the optimist Candide and his friend Dr. Pangloss to interrogate and discredit the philosophies and approach more closely the truth about human life, suffering, and happiness in the real world. Now, the short novel Candide is considered one of the most important texts of the enlightenment. [via]
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Comoediae: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercatorby Plautus, W.M. LindsayISBN 0198146280 (0-19-814628-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus, Vidularia, Fragmentaby Plautus, W.M. LindsayISBN 0198146299 (0-19-814629-9)
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Complete Greek Tragediesby EuripideISBN 0226307727 (0-226-30772-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Comediesby William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 0198182732 (0-19-818273-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Comedies'Book summary:Now in a convenient paperback format, here are all the known comedies of Shakespeare including: All's Well That Ends Well; As You Like It; Cardenio: A Brief Account; The Comedy of Errors; The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice; Cymbeline, King of Britain; Love's Labour's Lost; Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account; Measure for Measure; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text; The Taming of the Shrew; The Tempest; Troilus and Cressida; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Two Noble Kinsmen; and The Winter's Tale. [via]
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Complete Plays/Playboy of the Western Worldby J. M. Synge, Ann SaddlemyerISBN 0192826115 (0-19-282611-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Plays/Playboy of the Western World'Book summary:Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers every one of his plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The introduction to this new, definitive edition sets the plays in the context of the Irish literary movement, with special attention to Synge's role as one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre and his work alongside W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. [via]
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Dance of the Forestby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0199110824 (0-19-911082-4)
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Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeckby Georg Buchner, Victor PriceISBN 0192836501 (0-19-283650-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck'Book summary:A collection of Buchner's three plays with an introduction by Price and a new chronology of the author. The revised translations attempt to reflect discoveries about Buchner's intentions. The German writer, Georg Buchner, died in 1837 at the age of 23 and left only three works for the theatre, one a fragment. "Danton's Death", his play about the French Revolution was written in five weeks when the 21 year old medical student was under threat of arrest for his own revolutionary activities. His romantic black comedy "Leonce and Lena" was composed in haste for a publisher's competition for which it was entered too late. "Woyzeck", on which Alban Berg based his opera, was left unfinished at Buchner's death. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century and the first stage production of any of them was in 1895. Today the plays are being performed with greater frequency. [via]
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Don Carlos and Mary Stuartby Friedrich SchillerISBN 0192839853 (0-19-283985-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Carlos and Mary Stuart'Book summary:Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his own age - justice, power, freedom of conscience, legitimacy of government. A youthful work, Don Carlos shows the victory of the forces of reaction over the representatives of a new age. Mary Stuart shows the struggle of the Scottish queen in her last days of her life, not only for her freedom, but also for peace with her conscience, and that of her English rival, Elizabeth I, with the challenge of ruling justly. A vivid imaginative experience when read, these plays, with their starkly contrasting characters and thrilling confrontations, also demonstrate Schiller's brilliant stagecraft. These new translations into blank verse are accurate, elegant, and playable.The introduction, notes, and chronology set the plays in their cultural and intellectual background, while a family tree explains the historical relationship bewteen Don Carlos and Mary Stuart. [via]
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Don Juan and Other Playsby Moliere, Ian MacLean, George GraveleyISBN 0192835513 (0-19-283551-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Juan and Other Plays'Book summary:Moli 'ere's prose plays demonstrate both his versatility as a playwright and the reasons for his enduring popularity from the France of Louis XIV to the present. This book is intended for general, paricularly those interested in drama; students of comparative literature, French drama, and French seventeenth-century literature. [via]
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Maud EllmannISBN 0192833863 (0-19-283386-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:The dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by stoker. He aims to terrify and succeeds, portraying the awesome power of evil to corrupt even the virtuous heroine, lucy. Only the old magic--a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake--can provide effective weapons against the count's appalling strength [via]
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Euripidesby David Grene, Richmond A. Lattimore, EuripidesISBN 0226307670 (0-226-30767-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Euripides:
Euripides Iby EuripidesISBN 0226307808 (0-226-30780-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides IIby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David GreneISBN 0226307816 (0-226-30781-6)
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Euripides IV: Four Tragedies Rhesus, the Suppliant Women, Orestes and Iphigenia in Aulisby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David Grene, Frank JonesISBN 0226307832 (0-226-30783-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides Medeaby Euripides, Alan ElliotISBN 0199120064 (0-19-912006-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides Medea'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Euripides V: Electra, the Phoenician Women, the Bacchaeby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David GreneISBN 0226307840 (0-226-30784-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides V: Electra, the Phoenician Women, the Bacchae'Book summary:In nine paperback volumes, the grene and lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the greek tragedies available in english. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use [via]
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192835955 (0-19-283595-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 1'Book summary:This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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Faust, Part Twoby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192826166 (0-19-282616-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part Two'Book summary:This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. [via]
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The Fire on the Snowby Douglas Alexander StewartISBN 0207133190 (0-207-13319-0)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
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Five Playsby Ben Jonson, G.A. WilkesISBN 0192839446 (0-19-283944-6)
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Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821by Robert Southey, Inchbald, George Gordon Byron Byron, Joanna Baillie, Horace Walpole, Edward Burns, Paul BainesISBN 0192833162 (0-19-283316-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821'Book summary:Thriving during a period of profound revolution in Europe, the British Romantic theatre found itself re-examining social and sexual relations in English society. The five plays collected in this edition--the only one of its kind--represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of the drama created during this period. Horace invented gothic melodrama with his incest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother; Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794); Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred in De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while Elizabeth Inchbald's hugely successful Lover's Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyze some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814); Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stage imagined by these writers is an arena of culturally charged issues--political, sexual, and socia--paralleling the ones being debated and decided in society at large. [via]
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Four Jacobean Sex Tragediesby Martin WigginsISBN 0192823205 (0-19-282320-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, the Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, the Atheist's Tragedyby Katharine Eisaman MausISBN 0192838784 (0-19-283878-4)
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Four Revenge Tragedies/the Spanish Tragedy/the Revenger's Tragedy/the Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois/the Atheist's Tragedyby Michael Cordner, Katharine Eisaman MausISBN 0192826336 (0-19-282633-6)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Dennis Butts, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0192817728 (0-19-281772-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as truculent as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, cooped up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dennis ButtsISBN 0192835963 (0-19-283596-3)
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The Freeholderby Joseph Addison, James LehenyISBN 0198124945 (0-19-812494-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Pr
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Goethe's Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0195004108 (0-19-500410-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe's Faust'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the proper company for his Cadaverousness. In a letter of 1780, Goethe playfully applies the name £rad)e to his friend Merck, who was also a gaunt man. 5671. iBJnrlcrlol', 'wooden cross'; in sarcastic allusion to the Lean Person's appearance. 5678. bctUCflt, 'excitedly'; adv. with entfctltett. 5681. llmfrfjiipytc = befcfjupte, 'scaly.' 5685-6. J)o6cn... fycrnitiictraticn. The dragons (without hands, hence the marvel) take the box, with Mephistopheles sitting on it, out of the chariot and bring it to (heron) where Faust is standing. 5691. ft!) fief lit, 'motley.' 56g6. jur GtnfomfeU. Cf. the words of the Poet in the Prelude, 11. 59 ff. 5706. ticrrnftjcu. Poetry is self-revelation, i.e., self-betrayal. Cf. the lines in the West-Ostlicher Divan, IX, 19: ®rft ficfi im fflefjetmnifs toteflcn, £mn ter)I(mtetn friif) unb fpatl SUcfjter ift umfonft Berf(6wieflen, Sidjten fel&ft ift fdjott Serratfj. 5712. (loltmcnt SBlitte; figurative for the red-golden liquid which rises in the pots and threatens to dissolve the jewels. 5717. ftJimeljen fid), 'are melting,' i.e.,' are on the point of melting,'--whence the need of seizing them quickly. 5718. ©emiinte SRoHcn, 'minted rolls,' i.e., coins. 5719. $u!aten... gepragt = OotbftiidCe tote getorfigte £ufatcn, 'pieces like genuine ducats.' But Schroer says tote geprtigt = hrie lieu ge« torogt. 573-©olb unb 2Bertfy; i.e., roerthtjolle? (roirfltd)e«) ©olb. 5735-6. The meaning is: What 's the use of truth for such as you, ever the ready victims of stupid illusion?--9ln alien 3tyfeltt patfctl, 'to lay hold of by every tag,' i.e., to lay hold of with all one's might. 5753-Oil' UltS all', 'all together,' 'every one of us.' Cf. Sltt OTe in 1. 8483+. 5761-2. Plutus as magician draws an... [via]
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Greek Tragediesby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307778 (0-226-30777-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Tragedies'Book summary:In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.[via]More editions of Greek Tragedies:
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Helenby Euripides, James Michie, Colin LeachISBN 0195077105 (0-19-507710-5)
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Heracles and Other Playsby Euripides, Robin Waterfield, Edith HallISBN 019283259X (0-19-283259-X)
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Iphigenia in Taurisby Euripides, Richmond Alexander LattimoreISBN 019507291X (0-19-507291-X)
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Just So Stories for Little Childrenby Rudyard Kipling, Lisa LewisISBN 0192834363 (0-19-283436-3)
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The Larkby Jean AnouilhISBN 0195003934 (0-19-500393-4)
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Lion and the Jewelby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0199110832 (0-19-911083-2)
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The Major Works: Including Poems, Plays, and Critical Proseby W. B. Yeats, Edward LarrissyISBN 0192842838 (0-19-284283-8)
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Janet SharistanianISBN 019283200X (0-19-283200-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, Walter ShewringISBN 0192833758 (0-19-283375-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:The first English prose translation of Homer's The Odyssey to appear in over thirty years, Shewring's translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow. [via]
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The Odyssey of Homerby Bernard Knox, T. E. LawrenceISBN 0195068181 (0-19-506818-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:Colonel T.E. Lawrence was one of the most flamboyant figures of his era, known throughout the Western world as Lawrence of Arabia. Glory-seeking yet self-effacing, this soldier, archaeologist, spy, and scholar was a war hero whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest men of our time." Less well known were his abilities as historian and author, which won him the admiration of such writers as Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, and Robert Graves.
While stationed on a desolate R.A.F. outpost on the fringes of the Karachi desert in India, Lawrence began his acclaimed translation of The Odyssey. He devoted himself to the project for four years, and during that time he came to feel that he was uniquely suited to the task. "I have hunted wild boars and watched wild lions," he wrote. "Built boats and killed many men. So I have odd knowledges that qualify me to understand The Odyssey, and odd experiences that interpret it to me." Relying on an innate sense of language and truly gifted abilities at translation, Lawrence transformed Homer's Odyssey into mellifluous prose. The result was an overnight bestseller. The New York Herald Tribune hailed it "perhaps the most interesting translation of the world's most interesting book," and The New York Times called it "ruggedly and roughly masculine" and added that it "gives a vividness to the story beyond any other text familiar to us."
Lawrence breathes new life into the adventures of Odysseus, smoothing the reader's path through a fantastic array of monsters, temptresses, gods, and goddesses. For a generation of readers accustomed to verse translations of Homer, this bold and vivid prose version is well worth rediscovery. [via]More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:
Persiansby Aeschylus, Janet Lembke, C.J. HeringtonISBN 0195070089 (0-19-507008-9)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0192816071 (0-19-281607-1)
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Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Comeby John BunyanISBN 0198118023 (0-19-811802-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come'Book summary:Pilgrim's Progress is one of the greatest and most influential stories ever told. Now it is being released for the first time in a Large Print edition. Big, bold, sans serif type, printed on non-fading acid-free paper make it ideal for visually impaired people. John Bunyan (1628-88) tells the inspirational story of Christian and his unique spiritual pilgrimage from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. This edition is unabridged, with changes only made to translate the occasional obscure seventeenth-centurey language into down-to-earth modern dialect. It includes all of Bunyan's many Bible references, and an Introduction by this edition's editor, Halcyon Backhouse. [via]
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The Playboy of the Western World: And Other Playsby J. M. Synge, Ann SaddlemyerISBN 0192834487 (0-19-283448-7)
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The Plays and Fragmentsby Peter Brown, Maurice BalmeISBN 0192839837 (0-19-283983-7)
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Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval Englandby Compton Reeves, Albert Compton ReevesISBN 0195214234 (0-19-521423-4)
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The Reckoningby Charles NichollISBN 0224031007 (0-224-03100-7)
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The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Actsby W. J. Johnson, KalidasaISBN 019283911X (0-19-283911-X)
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Rethinking Dvorak: Views from Five Countriesby Dvorak Sesquicentennial Conference and Festival in America (1991 : University of New Orleans), David R. BeveridgeISBN 0198164114 (0-19-816411-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rethinking Dvorak: Views from Five Countries'Book summary:This book's twenty-four essays offer the latest insights into this Czech composer by experts worldwide, including many Czechs who have never before published in English. They present new viewpoints reflecting the changed political climate in Eastern Europe; and emphasize Dvorák's significance not only as a Czech nationalist, but as a composer whose message is universally understood. [via]
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Roadby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0199110840 (0-19-911084-0)
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Samskaraby U.R. Anantha MurthyISBN 0195610792 (0-19-561079-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samskara'Book summary:Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both critics and general readers since its first publication in 1965. As a religious novel about a decaying brahmin colony in the south Indian village of Karnataka, Samskara serves as an allegory rich in realistic detail, a contemporary reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths, and a serious, poetic study of a religious man living in a community of priests gone to seed. A death which stands as the central event in the plot brings in its wake a plague, many more deaths, live questions with only dead answers, moral chaos, and the rebirth of one man. The volume provides a useful glossary of Hindu myths, customs, Indian names, flora, and other terms. Notes and an afterword enhance the self-contained, faithful, and yet readable translation. [via]
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The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Womanby John Fowles, Harold PinterISBN 022401983X (0-224-01983-X)
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Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sinsby Wendy WassersteinISBN 0195312090 (0-19-531209-0)
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Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward IIby Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmusse NISBN 0192827375 (0-19-282737-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II'Book summary:Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two.
Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. [via]More editions of Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II:
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonousby George Berkeley, Jonathan DancyISBN 0198751494 (0-19-875149-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous'Book summary:First published in 1713, this work was designed as a vivid and persuasive presentation of the remarkable picture of reality that Berkeley had first presented two years earlier in his Principles. His central claim there, as here, was that the world is not material but mental. Berkeley uses this thesis as the ground for a new argument for the existence of God, and the dialogue form enables him to raise and respond to many of the natural objections to his position. This volume uses the 1734 edition of the text, supplemented by an analysis of the Dialogues and a glossary. [via]
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Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Playsby John Ford, Marion LomaxISBN 0192822535 (0-19-282253-5)
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Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy, the Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeckby John Ford, Marion LomaxISBN 0192834495 (0-19-283449-5)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192833804 (0-19-283380-4)
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Twelve Playsby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald HingleyISBN 0192828134 (0-19-282813-4)
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The Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Eugene M. WaithISBN 0192836129 (0-19-283612-9)
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
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Venus Observedby C. FryISBN 0195003950 (0-19-500395-0)
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)by Kurt VonnegutISBN 022401076X (0-224-01076-X)
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