Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
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Category: Classics
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her fath ...Show more
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Anon, Jeffrey Gantz
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle f ...Show more
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt' In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declara ...Show more
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a ph ...Show more
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, "The Sickness Unto Death" is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kem (Editor)
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Category: Classics
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about real ...Show more
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
"If ever there was any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent edition dispels it." --The Times (London) "Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost e ...Show more
Romantic Poets (Word Cloud Classics) by John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley; George Gordon Byron; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; William Blake
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets. Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement's six most famous poets--William Wordsworth, Geor ...Show more
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (Word Cloud Classics) by Stephen Crane
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Category: Classics
The best-known work by famed American writer Stephen Crane, "The Red Badge of Courage" is a compelling exploration of human emotion in the midst of battle. Revered for its pioneering style, the book explores themes of maturation, cowardice, and nature's cruelty. One of the most innovative writers of his ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Word Cloud Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The book that some say helped start a war--now available in a new package The story of a slave struggling to maintain his dignity during the pre-Civil War era, Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852 to tremendous success. Since then, the book has received significant acclaim and invoked controversy. Ma ...Show more
Black Beauty (Word Cloud Classics) by Anna Sewell
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud
Anna Sewell's 1877 classic Black Beauty is considered to be one of the foremost works in animal welfare literature and a leading work in the children's pony book genre. Narrated by the horse himself, the book follows his trials and tribulations as he passes from one owner to another and experiences the ...Show more
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) ...Show more