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Though it tells the stories of the defeated, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays features four tragedies that depict both unfortunate demises and the essence of the fighting human spirit. The Suppliants, the first play of the collection, follows the daughters of Danaus as they flee from the loveless marriages that had been forced upon them. The Persians, perhaps the oldest surviving play in existence, portrays the defeat of the Persian King Xeroxes....
3) Salammbo
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French novelist and short story writer, Gustave Flaubert, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his nurse and neighbors, and in doing so, he prepared himself for a life consumed by literature and history. In addition to his "Madame Bovary", his first published novel and the one...
4) The Inferno
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The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
5) Alcools
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"Alcools" est un recueil de poèmes écrit par Guillaume Apollinaire et publié en 1913. Ce livre marque le début de la poésie moderne et a influencé de nombreux écrivains et artistes par la suite. Les poèmes d'Apollinaire sont riches en images et en émotions, ils explorent des thèmes tels que l'amour, la nostalgie, la guerre, l'art, la ville et la nature. Les poèmes sont écrits dans différents styles, allant du vers libre à la poésie...
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
"Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories."-Telegraph (UK)
The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman.
They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster.
The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa...
7) The sonnets
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Each sonnet is presented with guidance to assist the reader to make his or her own personal response. Help is given with imagery and other features of language, and the editor has included a wide range of classroom-tested activities for individual and group work. This edition aims to give students access to the multiple meanings and responses which each sonnet can evoke, and so discover Shakespeare's delight in language and exploration of personal...
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The anti-Catholic riots of 1780 in London provide the setting for this historical novel at the heart of which is the forbidden love between Emma, a Catholic, and Edward, a Protestant, and the adventures of Barnaby Rudge, one of the leaders of the uprising, whose fate is linked to a mysterious murder.
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A darkly brilliant first novel that imagines a missing chapter in the life of Ovid. Why was Ovid, the most popular author of his day, banished to the edges of the Roman Empire? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate work and perhaps his most Accomplished? Between the known details of the poet's life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has Interpolated a haunting drama of passion and psychological manipulation. On...
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Other Places, Other Times is a collection of historical fictions. Half are set in Sui China, half in a variety of times and locations.
Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions. Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei, an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period, circa 600 C.E.
As a boy, Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission. He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education...
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Seven samurai will teach him what it means to be a warrior...one by one he will remind them of what they taught.
Young Miyamoto Musashi, who goes by the nickname Hachi, studies at the local samurai school of the Yoshioka's. When he accidently meets his master's daughter, Umi, in a forbidden garden beneath a peach tree, it's love at first sight. They plan to meet again beneath the tree, but Umi never shows.
Driven by his desire to prove he is worthy,...
12) Les trophées
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Plongez dans l'univers poétique et exaltant des "Trophées" de José Maria de Heredia, un recueil de poèmes qui célèbre les héros, les grands moments de l'histoire et la beauté de la nature. À travers son écriture riche et évocatrice, Heredia nous transporte dans des époques lointaines et des lieux mythiques, de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance. Il rend hommage aux conquérants, aux guerriers, aux artistes et aux explorateurs qui ont marqué...
13) Thirst
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"In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as entertaining and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus' final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection. Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many miracles,...
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Una novia deambula, taciturna, en las vísperas de su boda, por los bosques de su casa. Joven, casi niña, sumisa, delirante en esos sueños adolescentes donde la promesa del amor eterno empapa y ofusca la visión de la realidad, sueña en el futuro que vendrá, con su próximo marido a ser. Sin embargo, los sueños jóvenes que alguna vez la condujeron, se verán cambiados por el paso del tiempo, la exposición a nuevos ambientes, a un estatus social...
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Plongez-vous dans l'univers enchanteur de "La Mare au Diable" de George Sand, une histoire touchante et poétique qui célèbre l'amour et la nature. Suivez les pas de Germain, un jeune veuf qui doit faire face aux défis de la vie et aux responsabilités qui lui incombent. Germain se rend au village voisin accompagné de son fils Petit-Pierre et d'une jeune fille, Marie, qu'il doit marier. Leur périple à travers la campagne offre une occasion de...
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Les Chants de Maldoror est écrit par Comte de Lautréamont, pseudonyme d'Isidore Ducasse, au XIXe siècle. C'est un précurseur du mouvement surréaliste, en raison de son contenu étrange et troublant. Maldoror est un personnage maléfique qui se livre à des actes de cruauté et de perversion. Les poèmes sont écrits dans un style lyrique et imagé, utilisant des métaphores surréalistes pour explorer les thèmes de la violence, de la mort, de...
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El diálogo Cato Maior de senectute, escrito en el año 44 a. C., fue compuesto por Cicerón en un momento de crisis política-meses antes del magnicidio de César-y también familiar. Defiende la ancianidad contra quienes la atacan por la falta de actividad, de fuerza corporal y de placeres, y por su proximidad a la muerte, ofreciendo un breve diálogo filosófico de fuerte contenido ético.
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A comic sendup of twelve Bible stories. Father Alazon Lustlieb claims to have had revelations from On High telling him to find and translate the Bear Lake Scrolls and to start The Church of the Comic Spirit. The scrolls include a film script ("Miss Holy Land," starring Abraham and Sarah), the diary of Moses, and the transcript of a basketball game between the David and Goliath teams.
20) Beowulf
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Beowulf is one of the most universally studied of the English classics, and considered to be the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature.
The title character is a warrior with superhuman strength who honors his king by performing glorious deeds, the first of which is to rescue the royal house of Denmark from two violent monsters. After killing them, he returns triumphantly and rules his people wisely as their King...
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