Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
First published in 1954 in OUP's series of commentaries on Euripides' plays, this edition provides an introduction and commentary (including metrical analysis) to this intriguing 'pro-satyr' play.
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Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Conacher describes how Euripides provides, in specific plays, a variety of original dramatic treatments of well-known views of his contemporaries, the Sophists. The emphasis is on Euripides as the creative virtuoso of dramatic ideas rather than as philosopher
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? Including elements of fantasy, such as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this book seeks to evoke a lost age of […]
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Publisher: Everyman's Library
A novel in which Dickens launches a ferocious onslaught against England and English society. He draws on the memory of his father in his depiction of the Marshalsea debtors prison and there is also the story of the love between an older man and a younger woman.
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Publisher: Everyman's Library
When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee, he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her father, her father's best friend and the best friend's son for whom she is destined, all of them travelling together aboard the RMS Atlantic. Though he fails at sea, he eventually triumphs on […]
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the 10th century, Shahnameh is one of the most important pieces of Persian literature. This narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. It combines prose and […]
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
The dazzling and exuberant comic 'Chronicles' of Rabelais (c. 1483-1552) are a feast of wisdom and laughter. Realism intertwines with carnivalesque fantasy, Renaissance learning with obscene humour to make readers look at the world afresh. Pantagruel, a tale of comic chivalry, satirizes lawyers, theologians and academic buffoons, while Gargantua mocks rash generals, […]
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
X turned up in due course. My treasures are disposed in three large rooms without carpets and curtains. There is no other furniture than the itaghres and the glass cases whose contents shall be worth a fortune to my heirs. I allow no fires to be lighted, for fear of accidents, and […]
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
Jadwiga.–No, I must be frank and tell you how it happened. In former times we were such dear friends, and then we have not seen each other for two years. I asked you to come, but I was not sure that you would grant my request, therefore–when the bell rang–after two years–(smiling) […]
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Dealing with one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, this book centres around Stephen Dedalus, the hero of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Various chapters correspond to episodes of Homer's Odyssey and the style employs certain techniques, including stream of consciousness and parody.
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