 | The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately returned to human shape by the kindness of the goddess Isis. Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly semi...
 |  | Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 25, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic mu...
|  | The Tale of Genji (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: June 16, 1990| Series: Vintage Classics In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich and changeable as those imagined by Proust. Chief of these is "the shining Genji," the son of the emperor and a man whose passionate impulses create great turmoil in his world and very nearly destroy him...
|  | Boy Scouts Handbook
Publication Date: July 4, 2012The Boy Scout Handbook is a manual providing information about camping, signs and signaling, Scouting games, and more. The original edition of the guide owes much to Baden-Powell s Scouting for Boys. The official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, this volume contains everything the young Scout must learn to become a well-developed, well-informed boy. ...
|  | The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War.Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with ...
|  | Robinson Crusoe
Release Date: July 10, 2012| ISBN-10: 1613822553 | ISBN-13: 978-1613822555Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure.And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years.In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place...
|  | Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 14, 2004| ISBN-10: 0393979172 | ISBN-13: 978-0393979176| Edition: 2nd The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling’s celebrated translation, revised by Paul de Man.Margaret Cohen’s carefuleditorial revision modernizes and renewsFlaubert’s stylistic masterpiece. In addition,Cohen has added to the Second Edition a newintroduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that inform students’understanding of middle-class life innineteenth-century p...
|  | V. (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: March 24, 1999| Series: Perennial Classics The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title. ...
|  | The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics In Aeneas, Virgil created the most powerful figure in Latin literature, the dutiful yet fallible Trojan prince who overcomes war, suffering and countless setbacks to lay the foundations of the Roman race. @TranslatioStud Got a gift of a huge wooden horse today, here in Troy. Just appeared outside the city gate. BTW: War going poorly. Surprise. Soldiers inside the horse. We didn’t start the fire! Hector’s Ghost says to GTFO – take Dad and the kid with me. I’m on a boat. Three generations of Aenean men on a sea-jour...
|  | The Portable Beat Reader
Release Date: July 29, 2003Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder.The Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Co...
|  | Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition
Publication Date: February 1, 2011In a radical departure from standard editions, Twain's most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that the author originally envisioned. More controversial will be the decision by the editor, noted Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben, to eliminate the pejorative racial labels that Twain employed in his effort to write realistically about social attitudes of the 1840s. In his detailed introduction, Gribben points out that dozens of other editions currently make available the inflamatory words, but their presence has gradually diminished the...
|  | Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Kareninasets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna,her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky against themarriage of Levin and Kitty, thus illuminating the mostimportant questions that face humanity. The secondedition uses the acclaimed Louise and Alymer Maudetranslation, and offers a new introduction and noteswhich provide completely up-to-date perspectives onTolstoy's classic work.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broades...
|  | Lady Chatterley's Lover
Publication Date: August 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 1619491486 | ISBN-13: 978-1619491489Lady Constance Chatterley s husband is paralyzed, and unable to satisfy her. Frustrated, she pursues an affair with Oliver Mellors, a servant. D. H. Lawrence s controversial 1928 novel is an exposition on themes of love, class, and the necessity of physical intimacy. ...
|  | Looking Backward (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: April 12, 1996| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find a vastly changed world where crime, war, and want no longer exist. A provocative study of human society as it is and as it might be. ...
|  | Holt Elements of Literature: Student Edition Grade 11 2000
Publication Date: 2000| ISBN-10: 0030520649 | ISBN-13: 978-0030520648| Edition: 1 Elements of Literature: Fifth Course : Literature of the United States With Literature of the Americas ...
|  | Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.@GoldenFarceGood, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line! When he gets home we’ll talk. I’m sure we can work it out. But what’s the best way to approach this? Any advice, anyone? #wackrelationships From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less...
|  | Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 2001| Series: Norton Critical Editions This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts"collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, aswell as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift'scorrespondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, andrelevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel."Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by theEarl ...
|  | The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1 (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 25, 2010| Series: Penguin Classics Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nigh...
|  | The Lord of the Rings (BBC Dramatization, Consumer Edition)
Publication Date: August 19, 2008Undertaking the adaptation of Tolkien's best-known work was an enormous task, but with its first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 1981, this magical dramatization became an instant global classic. The set features Ian Holm as Frodo, Sir Michael Hordern as Gandalf, and Robert Stephens as Aragorn in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastic tale of Middle Earth. The set includes The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; and The Return of the King. Includes bonus music and a Middle-Earth map!Unabridged on 12 CDs ...
|  | To a God Unknown (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Penguin Classics Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God....
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