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Publisher: Signet
Written By: Edward Albee
When Woolf debuted in 1961, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, more..
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Publisher: Public Domain Books
Written By: Dante Alighieri
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Publisher: Caedmon
Written By: William Shakespeare
"Yonder Cassius has a lean and hungrylook.
I do not trust him so."
Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Wherethe Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare onCompact Disc series. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloomaccompanies the CD. more..
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Publisher: Munsey's
Written By: Dante Alighieri, Rev. H. F. Cary
A poetical translation by Rev. H. F. Cary, with illustrations by Dore. more..
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
This translation of Dante's "Inferno" aims to preserve Dante's natural style while capturing the movement of the original Italian verse. The blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell re-creates for the modern reader the meanings Dante's poem had for contemporaries. more..
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Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Written By: Dante
The Divine Comedy marked nothing less than the arrival of vernacular
Italian as a literary language and Dante s book is still considered Italy's greatest literary achievement.
Its highly idiomatic verse, however, has long bedeviled English-language translators. Burton Raffel, whose
translation of Don Quixote is acclaimed for making Cervantes more accessible to the modern more..
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Publisher: Public Domain Books
Written By: N/A
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Publisher: Public Domain Books
Written By: Bertrand Russell
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Homer
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud more..
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Geoffrey Chaucer
David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text. more..