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Aurora Floyd
Aurora Floyd – Mary E. Braddon This is a highly sensational story, full of clever, sprightly, and powerful writing, although calculated to make us believe that modern society is sadly in need of moral improvement. Miss Braddon writes with great fluency and case, and appears to have a natural aptitude for plotting. In abandoning the […]
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz – L. Frank Baum Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies. One day the house is caught up in a cyclone and carried into the land of the Munchkins, who send her to find the great wizard of Oz, in the city of Emeralds. The adventures that […]
The Comedies Vol. 2
The Comedies Vol. 2 – Aristophanes The so-called old comedy, of which Aristophanes is the only surviving representative, flourished at the time of the Peloponnesian War which shook Greek civilization. There is no good single modern analogue of the old comedy. It is a blend of Shakespeare’s ‚Midsummer Night’s Dream‘ with Bernard Shaw. It is […]
The Comedies Vol. 1
The Comedies Vol. 1 – Aristophanes The so-called old comedy, of which Aristophanes is the only surviving representative, flourished at the time of the Peloponnesian War which shook Greek civilization. There is no good single modern analogue of the old comedy. It is a blend of Shakespeare’s ‚MidsummerA Night’s Dream‘ with Bernard Shaw. It is […]
The Historical Tales of King Arthur Vol. 2
The Historical Tales of King Arthur Vol. 2 – Charles Morris The Arthur of the legends has quite stepped out of the historic page and become a hero without time or place in any real world, a king of the imagination, the loftiest figure in that great outgrowth of chivalric romance which formed the favorite […]
The Historical Tales of King Arthur Vol. 1
The Historical Tales of King Arthur Vol. 1 – Charles Morris The Arthur of the legends has quite stepped out of the historic page and become a hero without time or place in any real world, a king of the imagination, the loftiest figure in that great outgrowth of chivalric romance which formed the favorite […]
The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus
The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus – Aeschylus Aeschylus was one of the most famous ancient Greek tragedians He is often called “the father of tragedy”, since this genre really begins with his works. This edition includes the following dramas: Agamemnon Choephoræ Or, The Libation-Bearers The Eumenides Prometheus Bound The Suppliants The Seven Against Thebes The […]
Cato
Cato – Joseph Addison The tragedy Cato was written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and recounts the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, a Stoic who was always resistant to Julius Caesar’s tyranny and an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty. The main themes of the play are individual liberty versus government tyranny and […]
The Hunting Of The Snark
The Hunting Of The Snark – Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in 1874, when he was already 42 years old and after the death of his godson had shattered his religious beliefs thoroughly. It actually is a […]
The Short Stories, Volume 2
The Short Stories, Volume 2 – Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet and a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot. His novels and his short storiies were widely influenced by Romanticism. This edition, here volume two out of two, includes his best short stories as well as a detailed […]