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No Exit and Three Other Plays

No Exit and Three Other Plays more books like this

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.

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Odyssey

Odyssey more books like this

by Sam Homer

Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others.

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Three Theban plays : Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

Three Theban plays : Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus more books like this

by Sophocles

Antigone defending her integrity and ideals to the death, Oedipus questing for his identity and achieving immortality - these heroic figures have moved playgoers and readers since the fifth century BC. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, these three plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles' translation ...

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The Odyssey of Homer

The Odyssey of Homer more books like this

by Richmond Lattimore (Translator)

Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others.

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The Gift

The Gift more books like this

by Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Translator)

With this stunning gift edition of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices.

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The epic of Gilgamesh

The epic of Gilgamesh more books like this

by N K Sandars (Introduction by)

Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of ...

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The Inferno

The Inferno more books like this

by John Ciardi (Translator), Archibald T MacAllister (Introduction by), Dante Alighieri

"The Divine Comedy" is the story of a pilgrim's journey to God. A man named Dante is lost in dark wood; through the intervention of his beloved Beatrice in Heaven, the Roman poet Virgil appears in the forest to lead Dante to her. In order to reach heaven, however, they must first pass through Hell and Purgatory. After journeying through Hell ...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I

The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I more books like this

by Sophocles, David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor)

Includes "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone".

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Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces more books like this

by Maynard Mack (Editor)

This groundbreaking Norton Anthology offers the best of the literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition.

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Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus

Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus more books like this

by Homer, Anthony Heald (Read by)

Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others.

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Season of Migration to the North more books like this

by Tayeb Salih

The nameless narrator of this Sudanese novel (translated from the Arabic) returns home to his village on the Nile after studying in England. There he encounters a man named Mustafa Sa'eed, who has also spent time in London, where his goal was to seduce as many white women as possible. When he in turn becomes obsessed with a woman as cold-hearted ...

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Medea and Other Plays more books like this

by Euripides

'the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to female characters, whether heroines of virtue ...

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Metamorphosis more books like this

by Franz Kafka

This is a graphic novel adaptation of Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. The black-and-white scratchboard, woodcut-like drawings point up the physical resemblance between Gregor-as-human and Gregor-as-cockroach, and illustrate how the overwhelming pressures and ...

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This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen more books like this

by Tadeusz Borowski

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second ...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V more books like this

by Euripides, David Grene (Editor), Richard Lattimore (Editor)

Includes "Electra", "The Phoenician Women" and "The Bacchae".

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The Complete Stories more books like this

by Franz Kafka

Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "The Penal Colony."

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Plague more books like this

by Albert Camus

Camus uses the plague-stricken city of Oran as a metaphor for Occupied France. This novel illustrates the paradox that from evil may come happiness, as well as the idea that only when faced with dire circumstances is humanity capable of finding existential purpose, fraternal affection, and the capacity for courage.

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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer more books like this

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, "Gimpel the Fool," in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from ...

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Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book more books like this

by Gleb Struve (Editor)

Twelve tales by such masters as Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, others. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages, plus teaching and study aids, Russian/English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions, more.

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The Essential Rumi more books like this

by Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, John Moyne (Translator), Coleman Barks (Translator)

A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, The Essential Rumi translates the estatic poetry of the famed twelfth-century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi".The gold of Rumi pours down through Coleman's words".--Jack Kornfield. "(A) delightful treasury".--Publishers Weekly.

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Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder more books like this

by Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (Translator), Jens Arup (Translator)

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.

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Iliad of Homer more books like this

by Homer

Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with "The Iliad", his translation of which Samuel Johnson called "the greatest version of poetry the world has ever seen". This edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to listen in as one poetic genius illuminates the ...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther more books like this

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. The first great 'confessional' novel, it draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte ...

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Collected Stories more books like this

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Short stories from the collections EYES OF A BLUE DOG, BIG MAMA'S FUNERAL, and THE INCREDIBLE AND SAD TALE OF INNOCENT ERENDIRA AND HER HEARTLESS GRANDMOTHER.

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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy more books like this

by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count

A collection of short fiction by the distinguished Russian writer includes the story Alyosha the Pot, as well as such novellas as The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, Master and Man, The Devil, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Serguis, and Hadgi Maurat. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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