Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes; The Persians by Aeschylus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The S ...Show more
Beauty and the Beast Classic Tales about Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World by Maria Tatar
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Category: Classics
The "tale as old as time," in versions from across the centuries and around the world--published to coincide with Disney's live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Audra McDonald, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Dan Stevens, and Emma Thompson Nearly every culture te ...Show more
Shadows of CarcosaTales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Classics
From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H. P. Lovecraft's accursed New England hills, this collection features some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre. The collection includes the following twelve stories:Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a B ...Show more
Poems by James Joyce
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Category: Classics
It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to his comparative neglect as a poet. And yet his poems not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career, they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. 'Chamber Music' is an extraordinary debut, fusing a broad ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: --Introibo ad altare Dei. Halted, he peered down the da ...Show more
Exiles by James Joyce
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Category: Classics
'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...'Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own li ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
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Category: Classics
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the...
The Castle by Franz Kafka; J. A. Underwood (Translator); Idris Parry (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories by Bruce Fulton (Notes by, Editor); Kwon Youngmin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of l ...Show more
The Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo; Yan (Translator)
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Category: Classics
'Pleasure of Thinking is a very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai Weiwei The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestselle ...Show more
Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo; Yan Yan (Translator)
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Category: Classics
'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your balls crushed.' Twenty-one-year-old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing his virginity. His dreams come true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins the ...Show more