Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: New Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
BOTCHAN by NATSUME SOSEKI
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Category: New Classics
Perhaps the most widely-read piece of modern Japanese literature, Soseki Natsume's Botchan has big things on it's mind: A society caught between modernist impulses and traditional culture, the sometimes irreconcilable divide between urban and rural life, and sincerity and pretension. It is the story of ...Show more
Signet Classic: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: New Classics
Notes on the background and sources of the tragedy and past and present criticism preface the text.
Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: New Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in Athenian society, and Electra and Other Plays collects five plays demonstrating his talent for bringing to life their plight. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by John Davie with a ...Show more
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
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Category: New Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw' ...Show more
Classic Collection: Theseus and the Minotaur by Saviour Pirotta
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Category: New Classics
Does Theseus have what it takes to defeat the Minotaur? Theseus heads to Athens to meet his father, overcoming many obstacles on his travels. Once there he discovers 14 Athenians are about to be sent to the man-eating Minotaur, who lives in an elaborate labyrinth in Crete. He volunteers, determined to p ...Show more
Common Ground : Around Britain in 30 writers by John Simmons, Rob Williams & Tim Rich
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Category: New Classics
Ali Smith finds that the modern landscape still suggests the other-worldly creatures she used to read about in folk tales. Niall Griffiths laments the clumsy tributes to Dylan Thomas that cover every available surface in Laugharne. Virginia Woolf's Orlando might seem to be standing beside you in the unc ...Show more
Greek Tragedies 3 by GRENE
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Category: New Classics
Greek Tragedies, Volume III contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides," translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes," translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus," translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae," translated by William Arrowsmith; and Euripides's "Alece ...Show more
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald (Translator)
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Category: New Classics | Series: Classics Library
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) ...Show more
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles (trans.)
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Category: New Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebra ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Category: New Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more