 | The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
Release Date: January 30, 1991“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” —from The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: ...
 |  | The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 13th Ed)
Publication Date: August 19, 2000| Series: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (Cloth), 13th ed For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volum...
|  | Yesterday's Tomorrow
Publication Date: February 19, 2011Percy Deforest Spock has just moved back to his hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.When a teenage boy knocks on his door, Percy is floored by the uncanny resemblance between the boy and his lost love of twenty years before.As the two grow closer, Percy relives the days when he was young and in love but is disturbed by his growing feelings for Tyler.Realizing that Tyler’s resemblance to his lost love is the source of his attraction, he’s able to push his desires aside and act as a mentor to his young friend.There is a secret hidden in Bloomington...
|  | Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (Focus on Performance)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Focus on Performance An authoritative text of Marlowe's classic play, with notes and a substantial introduction giving historical background, dramatic context, and performance history, including cinematic history. This text is based on the authoritative edition by Irving Ribner, updated, with much additional material on performance, by James H. Lake.Interviews with Ralph Alan Cohen of Shenandoah Shakespeare and Andreas Teuber (Mephistopheles in the Richard Burton production) discuss issues of performance. Includes illustrations, a useful timeline, a l...
|  | The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler
Publication Date: August 17, 1997At the height of his career, the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen created a new drama of struggle between the inward needs of his characters and the demands of their social environments.In Michael Meyer's fluent, idiomatic translations, The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler stand as masterpieces of naturalist drama. ...
|  | Autumn Leaves & The Ring: Poems by Frithjof Schuon (Writings of Frithjof Schuon)
Publication Date: May 16, 2010| Series: Writings of Frithjof Schuon This book contains two collections, Autumn Leaves and The Ring, and is offered here for the first time in a bilingual English-German edition. The various sections include: Beauty, Human Questions, Doctrine, Recollections, Images, and the Soul. In these poetic teachings Schuon speaks directly to the reader, expressing every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel. They comfort and inspire the reader to cultivate inner beauty and seek a deeper consciousness of the presence of God. ...
|  | Homeric Responses
Publication Date: January 1, 2004The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was Homer--a real or an ideal poet? When were the poems composed--at a single point in time, or over centuries of composition and performance? And how were the poems committed to writing? These uncertainties have been known as The Homeric Question, and many scholars, including Gregory Nagy, have sought to solve it.In Homeric Responses, Nagy presents a series of essays that further elaborate his theories regarding t...
|  | Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-Century Japan
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|  | Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde
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|  | Landing Safely on a Solid Rock
Publication Date: September 19, 2011Words of inspiration and hope.Reading this book will inspire you to get up and do something positive. ...
|  | Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 27, 2004The tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is one of the greatest narrative poems in English literature. Set during the siege of Troy, it tells how the young knight Troilus, son of King Priam, falls in love with Criseyde, a beautiful widow. Brought together by Criseyde’s uncle, Pandarus, the lovers are then forced apart by the events of war, which test their oaths of fidelity and trust to the limits. Described by editor Barry Windeatt as Chaucer’s“most ambitious single achievement, his masterpiece,” Troilus and Criseyde is the first work in Englis...
|  | Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: May 7, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521111498 | ISBN-13: 978-0521111492| Edition: 1 Reissue The nineteenth-century novel has always been regarded as a literary form pre-eminently occupied with the written word, but Ivan Kreilkamp shows it was deeply marked by and engaged with vocal performances and the preservation and representation of speech. He offers a detailed account of the many ways Victorian literature and culture represented the human voice, from political speeches, governesses' tales, shorthand manuals, and staged authorial performances in the early- and mid-century, to me...
|  | Short Stories by the Generation of 1898/Cuentos de la Generacion de 1898: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)
Publication Date: September 23, 2004| Series: Dover Dual Language Spanish These 13 short stories by 5 authors of the era include 4 tales by Miguel de Unamuno — famed as a novelist, essayist, and poet, and one of the few internationally known and acclaimed Spanish writers of the 20th century — along with the works of Valle-Inclán, Blasco Ibánez, Baroja, and "Azorín" (José Martínez Ruiz). ...
|  | Torn Apart (Storm Front Novels)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Storm Front Novels The twister that touches down in Bordelaise, Louisiana, not only destroys the calm of a summer Sunday, it pierces the soul of Katie Earle, whose young son Bobby goes missing…and it wasn't the storm that took him.Katie's first thought is that her estranged husband, J.R., saw his chance and grabbed Bobby to spite her. But the reality goes beyond that to truly horrifying, and now her nightmare is only just beginning. The real terror will begin when the tornado's wreckage is cleared away and the kidnapper can escape with his prize...
|  | The Gentle Beast (Faerie Tale Romance)
Publication Date: October 1996| Series: Faerie Tale Romance Scorning the enemies of King George III, wealthy Callista Raleigh is kidnapped by a masked stranger who seeks revenge against her family and attempts to seduce her with his passionate ways....
|  | Sharkboy and Lavagirl Adventures: Vol. 2: Return to Planet Drool
Publication Date: May 15, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Mi Primer Larousse de Leyendas de la Mitologia: My First Larousse: Legends and Myths
Publication Date: September 19, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Fairy Tales K-2
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|  | Black Ships Before Troy Comprehension Guide (Veritas Press Literature Guides)
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