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  Theban plays: Book 1

  Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex )

  by Sophocles

  (Also known as Oedipus Rex) One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies impact of agonizing events. Sophocles’ finest play, Oedipus Rex ranks as a towering landmark of Western drama. Explanatory footnotes. (more)
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  Metamorphoses

  by Ovid

  Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and... (more)
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  The Cradle

  by Patrick Somerville

  Early one summer morning, Matthew Bishop kisses his still-sleeping wife Marissa, gets dressed and eases his truck through Milwaukee, bound for the highway. His wife, pregnant with their first child, has asked him to find the antique cradle taken years before by her mother Caroline when she abandoned Marissa, never to contact her daughter again. Soon to be a mother herself, Marissa now dreams of nothing else but... (more)
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  The Golden Ass

  by Apuleius

  Written towards the end of the second century AD, "The Golden Ass" tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is... (more)
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  The Art Detective

  Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures

  by Philip Mould

  The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective , Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost authorities on... (more)
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  The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

  by Marcel Detienne

  "A penetrating study of the meaning of `truth' in archaic Greece." -- Parabola "Richly suggestive and written with verve and wit. . . " -- Choice The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia , from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature... (more)
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  Peter Pan

  or, Peter Pan and Wendy

  by J. M. Barrie

  It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right — this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking adventure of their lives, to a place called Neverland, a strange country where the lost boys live and never grow up, a land with mermaids, fairies and... (more)
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  The Problems of Philosophy

  by Bertrand Russell

  Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we approach the 125th anniversary of the Nobel laureate's birth, his works continue to spark debate, resounding with unmatched timeliness and power. The Problems of Philosophy, one of the most popular works in Russell's prolific collection of writings, has become core... (more)
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  Myth and Thought among the Greeks

  by Jean Pierre Vernant

  When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays—three of which, along with a new preface, are translated into English for the first time—Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its philological chains and reread the questions of... (more)
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  Walden

  or, Life in the Woods

  by Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. This groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature.
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  Iphigenie auf Tauris

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Iphigenia in Tauris (German: Iphigenie auf Tauris) is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripides.Goethe wrote his first version of the play in six weeks, and it was first performed on April 6, 1779 in prose form. He rewrote it in 1781, again in prose, and finally in 1786 in verse form. He took the manuscript of Iphigenia in Tauris with him on his... (more)
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  The Odyssey

  by Homer

  If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. ...
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  Lucille

  by Owen Meredith

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  LOWELLS POEMS

  by James Russell lowell

  This 1887 printing by Houghton, Mifflin. is one of the first complete listings of all of James Russell Lowell poems. This 472 page small book is attractively bound with decorative spine.
• Selected Poems of Lord Byron with Biographical SketchMatthew Arnold (Editor)

  

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  Selected Poems of Lord Byron with Biographical Sketch

  by Matthew Arnold (Editor)

• Campbell's Poetical WorksThomas Campbell

  

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  Campbell's Poetical Works

  by Thomas Campbell

• The Roman empresses;: Or, The history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars, with historical and critical notesJacques Roergas de Serviez

  

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  The Roman empresses;: Or, The history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars, with historical and critical notes

  by Jacques Roergas de Serviez

  General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: H.S. Nichols Subjects: Empresses Emperors Women Roman empresses Roman emperors Biography
• Sketchbook and Abbotsford (Fulton Edition)Washington Irving

  

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  Sketchbook and Abbotsford (Fulton Edition)

  by Washington Irving

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  Pharsalia

  by Lucan

  "Pharsalia (also known as De Bello Civili or On the Civil War) is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, telling of the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great. Pharsalia is a reference to the Battle of Pharsalus, which occurred in 48 BC, near Pharsalus, Thessaly, in northern Greece. Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in this battle, which occupies all of the epic's... (more)
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  Virgil's Works: The Aenid, Eclogues, Georgics

  by Virgil

  Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest... (more)