Greek and Roman Mythology (Classic Reprint) by Jessie M Tatlock
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Category: Classics
Excerpt from Greek and Roman Mythology While familiarity with classical mythology is generally recognized as essential to the understanding of literature and art and to the preservation of a great and valuable part of our artistic and spiritual heritage, the method of assuring such a familiarity to the ...Show more
Three Tang Dynasty Poets: Little Black Classics: Pengiun 80s #9 by Wang Wei
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around ...Show more
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein. The plays ...Show more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Category: Classics | Series: Routledge Classics
'I resolved to write a book which would create some stir in the world and continue to do after I had gone from it' - Choderlos de Laclos. A great sensation at the time of first publication, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" reads as much the most 'modern' of eighteenth-century novels. Viewed by some critics as ...Show more
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? : Little Black Classic by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.' This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin ...Show more
Lady Susan (Little Black Classic) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.' The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella. It is on ...Show more
Seven Hanged : Little Black Classic by Leonid Andreyev
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony B ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men- Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is senten ...Show more
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Book 1 (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Ian Fleming, Joe Berger
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first car. It looks like a wreck, but once restored it turns out to be no ordinary vehicle; Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is a magical car which can fly, swim and even think. Chitty and the ...Show more
The Iliad and the Odyssey (Knickerbocker Classics) by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Iliad and the Odyssey is unabridged and complete. The Iliad is the epic poem that tells the ten-year story of the siege of Troy by the Greeks. Its sequel, The Odyssey, describes the journey that the triumphant Greek leader, Odysseus, take ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's prideTo Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his frail son, grooming ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes: Volume 4 (Knickerbocker Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
A stunning gift edition boasting the early tales of Sherlock Holmes, including two short story collections. This fourth and final volume concludes the exciting adventures of the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are ...Show more