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Aeschylus's the Oresteia

by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0877549036 (0-87754-903-6)
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ISBN 9780812234169 (0-8122-3416-2, 0812234162)

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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemmon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides

by Aeschylus

ISBN 0812234162 (0-8122-3416-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

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ISBN 9780812216271 (0-8122-1627-X, 081221627X)

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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides

by David R. Slavitt

ISBN 081221627X (0-8122-1627-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

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ISBN 9780689871801 (0-689-87180-5, 0689871805)

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Nancy Farmer

ISBN 0689871805 (0-689-87180-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]

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ISBN 9780849913044 (0-8499-1304-7, 0849913047)

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A Christmas Carol

by Alan Parry, Linda Parry

ISBN 0849913047 (0-8499-1304-7)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas

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Watch out! Scrooge is about! The ghosts of time (past, present, and future) help Scrooge learn how to make Christmas joy last all year by always treating others with kindness and generosity. Children will thrill to the unique appearances of the ghosts and will enjoy the party package that Scrooge provides at the end of the book. Special features include: flaps, acetate figures, a pop-up, a pull-tab "ghost," and a pocket with hats, balloons, and games. [via]

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A Christmas Carol /tiny Tim

by Charles Dickens, Mark Summers

ISBN 0760750297 (0-7607-5029-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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ISBN 9780823404865 (0-8234-0486-2, 0823404862)

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A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

by Charles Dickens, Trina Schart Hyman

ISBN 0823404862 (0-8234-0486-2)
Hardcover, Holiday House

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In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]

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A Christmas Carol : The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0706415612 (0-7064-1561-2)
Hardcover, Octopus Books Limited

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ISBN 9780764585715 (0-7645-8571-1, 0764585711)

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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

Shakespeare's original play
Notes and definitions that appear directly opposite the line in which they occur
A summary and insightful commentary for each scene
Bibliography and historical background on the playwright, William Shakespeare
A look at the historical context and structure of the play
Discussions on the play's symbols and themes
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

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College of Magics

by Caroline Stevermer

ISBN 0765342456 (0-7653-4245-6)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it!

But Greenlaw is not just any school-as Faris and her new best friend Jane discover. At Greenlaw students major in . . . magic.

But it's not all fun and games. When Faris makes an enemy of classmate Menary of Aravill, life could get downright . . . deadly.

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ISBN 9780743487634 (0-7434-8763-X, 074348763X)

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Margaret Brantley

ISBN 074348763X (0-7434-8763-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]

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Crime and Punishment

by Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky

ISBN 0679734503 (0-679-73450-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]

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ISBN 9780791059241 (0-7910-5924-3, 0791059243)

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Elie Wiesel's Night

by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791059243 (0-7910-5924-3)
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An important work on the Holocaust by a concentration camp survivor.

The title, Elie Wiesels Night, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Elie Wiesels Night through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Elie Wiesel, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]

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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

by Immanuel Kant, Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

ISBN 0879753773 (0-87975-377-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books

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The nature and theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits of great scholars. In The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785) Immanuel Kant, one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inquires into the true nature of morality.

In rejecting the results or consequences of action as the foundation of moral judgments, he denies that good or bad effects have any relevance in the moral evaluation of human behavior. Instead, we must rely upon the Good Will for guidance. What is this Will upon which so much emphasis is placed, and how does it act as the foundation for behavior that can be assessed as truly moral? In this groundbreaking work, Kant outlines an ethical perspective that has been a vital force in the Western world. [via]

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ISBN 9780872201668 (0-87220-166-X, 087220166X)

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Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

by Immanuel Kant, James W. Ellington

ISBN 087220166X (0-87220-166-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translation of Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals includes his new translation of Kant's essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns', in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful consequences. [via]

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Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

ISBN 0689840926 (0-689-84092-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him shape a life for himself in the wilderness. Reprint. AB. K. [via]

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ISBN 9780743487658 (0-7434-8765-6, 0743487656)

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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0743487656 (0-7434-8765-6)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Two of Joseph Conrad's most compelling and haunting works, in which the deepest perceptions and desires of the human heart and mind are explored. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience 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. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON [via]

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The History of King Lear

by William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, James Black

ISBN 071315862X (0-7131-5862-X)
Softcover, Edward Arnold

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ISBN 9780807063804 (0-8070-6380-0, 0807063800)

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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, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat

ISBN 074348276X (0-7434-8276-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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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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The Kissing Hand

by Audrey Penn, Ruth E. Harper, Nancy M. Leak

ISBN 0878685855 (0-87868-585-5)
Hardcover, Child Welfare League of America, Incorporated

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ISBN 9780881030778 (0-88103-077-5, 0881030775)

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Lion, Witch, & Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0881030775 (0-88103-077-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Over 50 years ago, C.S. Lewis created a land of wonder and enchantment called Narnia, and since then over 60 million readers have discovered the wondrous world that exists beyond the back of the wardrobe. [via]

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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

by Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer

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The new edition presents a comprehensive guide to preparing research papers and includes detailed coverage using computers for research and citing electronic publications. [via]

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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

by Walter S. Achtert, Modern Language Association of America, Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873520009 (0-87352-000-9)
Hardcover, Modern Language Association

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My Teacher Sleeps in School

by Leatie Weiss, Ellen Weiss

ISBN 0723262535 (0-7232-6253-5)
Hardcover, F. Warne

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ISBN 9780743487771 (0-7434-8777-X, 074348777X)

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Johnson, Alyssa Harad

ISBN 074348777X (0-7434-8777-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Frederick Douglass's powerful autobiographical account of life in bondage and his triumphant escape to freedom.

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

" A concise introduction that gives readers important background information

" A chronology of the author's life and work

" A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

" An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations

" Detailed explanatory notes

" Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

" Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

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.

SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON

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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

by Frederick Douglass, Harriet A. Jacobs

ISBN 0679783288 (0-679-78328-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations. [via]

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ISBN 9780879753368 (0-87975-336-6, 0879753366)

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On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

ISBN 0879753366 (0-87975-336-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books

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First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is an exhaustive exploration of social and civic liberty, its limits, and its consequences. Mill's work is a classic of political liberalism that contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state. Drawing upon the empiricism of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume and the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, On Liberty defends the representative democracy as the culmination of society's progression from lower to higher stages, even as it recognizes one of the unique dangers of this type of government-namely, the "tyranny of the majority."Central to Mill's ideology is the harm principle-the idea that individual liberties should only be curtailed when they harm or interfere with the ability of others to exercise their own liberties. Unlike other liberal theorists, Mill did not rely upon theories of abstract rights to support his ideology, but rather grounded his philosophy in ideas of utility. As relevant to modern audiences as it was to Mill's Victorian readership, On Liberty is an enduring classic of political thought.

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The Oresteia

by Aeschylus, Helene P. Foley, Peter Meineck

ISBN 0872203905 (0-87220-390-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every play. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

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Translated by E. D. A. Morshead

The Oresteia (458 BC):
Agamemnon Translated by E. D. A. Morshead
The Libation Bearers (also known as Choephoroi) Translated by E. D. A. Morshead
The Eumenides (also known as The Furies) Translated by E. D. A. Morshead

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. Though originally written as tetralogy, it is the only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays; the fourth play, Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed as finale, has not survived. The Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. Overall, this trilogy emblemizes the shift from a monarchal system of vendetta in Argos to a democratic system of litigation in Athens.

Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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The Pearl

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0786258918 (0-7862-5891-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl. [via]

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0809599945 (0-8095-9994-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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Principal from the Black Lagoon

by Mike Thaler, Jared Lee

ISBN 0785704302 (0-7857-0430-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A boy's vivid imagination results in all kinds of funny spins on school-related situations. [via]

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor, Jerry Pinkney

ISBN 0803726473 (0-8037-2647-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African American family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan, growing up protected by her loving family, has never had reason to suspect that any white person could consider her inferior or wish her harm. But during the course of one devastating year when her community begins to be ripped apart by angry night riders threatening African Americans, she and her three brothers come to understand why the land they own means so much to their Papa. "Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to. That's important. You may not understand that now but one day you will. Then you'll see."

Twenty-five years after it was first published, this special anniversary edition of the classic strikes as deep and powerful a note as ever. Taylor's vivid portrayal of ugly racism and the poignancy of Cassie's bewilderment and gradual toughening against social injustice and the men and women who perpetuate it, will remain with readers forever. Two award-winning sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis, and a long-awaited prequel, The Land, continue the profoundly moving tale of the Logan family. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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Song Of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

ISBN 0679445048 (0-679-44504-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

ISBN 0767902890 (0-7679-0289-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."

A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]

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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791081710 (0-7910-8171-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."

A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]

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