Plutarch - Greek and Roman Lives
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Written early in the second century, Plutarchs Lives offers richly detailed and anecdotal biographies of some of the ancient worlds mightiest and most influential figures. Plutarch sought to explore the characters and personalities of great men, to see how individual natures led ultimately to tragedy or victory. This selection from Plutarchs massive work profiles five Greeks and five Romans. The translation used here is by an unknown writer, but was associated with John Drydens name because it was originally published in 1683-1686, in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by Dryden. In 1864, it was revised by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose introduction and notes are also featured.
The great men profiled here include Solon, the lawmaker of Athens, who fostered the growth of the citys democratic institutions; Pericles, whose legendary eloquence was epitomized by his well-known funeral oration; and Alexander the Great, whose incredible eleven-year journey of conquest extended from his native Macedonia to Egypt and India. Among the Romans are the warrior-statesman Marius, who opposed the ruling aristocracy and opened the army to commoners; Cicero, the famous orator; and Julius Caesar, whose extensive character sketch provided Shakespeare with the material for one of his greatest plays.
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LA VITA NUOVA, Dante Alighieri. 56pp. 0-486-41915-0
101 GREAT AMERICAN POEMS, The American Poetry & Literacy Project (ed.). (Available in U.S. only.) 96pp. 0-486-40158-8
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY: An Anthology, Stanley Appelbaum (ed.). 256pp. 0-486-29282-7
BHAGAVADGITA, Bhagavadgita. 112pp. 0-486-27782-8
THE BOOK OF PSALMS, King James Bible. 128pp. 0-486-27541-8
IMAGIST POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, Bob Blaisdell (ed.). 176pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-40875-2
BLAKES SELECTED POEMS, William Blake. 96pp. 0-486-28517-0
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, William Blake. 64pp. 0-486-27051-3
THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF HAIKU: An Anthology, Faubion Bowers (ed.). 96pp. 0-486-29274-6
TO MY HUSBAND AND OTHER POEMS, Anne Bradstreet (Robert Hutchinson, ed.). 80pp. 0-486-41408-6
BEST POEMS OF THE BRONT SISTERS (ed. by Candace Ward), Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bront. 64pp. 0-486-29529-X
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE AND OTHER POEMS, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 64pp. 0-486-27052-1
MY LAST DUCHESS AND OTHER POEMS, Robert Browning. 128pp. 0-486-27783-6
POEMS AND SONGS, Robert Burns. 96pp. 0-486-26863-2
SELECTED POEMS, George Gordon, Lord Byron. 112pp. 0-486-27784-4
JABBERWOCKY AND OTHER POEMS, Lewis Carroll. 64pp. 0-486-41582-1
SELECTED CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer. 144pp. 0-486-28241-4
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER AND OTHER POEMS, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 80pp. 0-486-27266-4
THE CAVALIER POETS: An Anthology, Thomas Crofts (ed.). 80pp. 0-486-28766-1
SELECTED POEMS, Emily Dickinson. 64pp. 0-486-26466-1
SELECTED POEMS, John Donne. 96pp. 0-486-27788-7
SELECTED POEMS, Paul Laurence Dunbar. 80pp. 0-486-29980-5
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS, T. S. Eliot. 64pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-40061-1
THE RUBIYT OF OMAR KHAYYM: FIRST AND FIFTH EDITIONS, Edward FitzGerald. 64pp. 0-486-26467-X
A BOYS WILL AND NORTH OF BOSTON, Robert Frost. 112pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-26866-7
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN AND OTHER POEMS, Robert Frost. 64pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-27550-7
THE GARDEN OF HEAVEN: POEMS OF HAFIZ, Hafiz. 112pp. 0-486-43161-4
HARDYS SELECTED POEMS, Thomas Hardy. 80pp. 0-486-28753-X
A SHROPSHIRE LAD, A. E. Housman. 64pp. 0-486-26468-8
LYRIC POEMS, John Keats. 80pp. 0-486-26871-3
GUNGA DIN AND OTHER FAVORITE POEMS, Rudyard Kipling. 80pp. 0-486-26471-8
SNAKE AND OTHER POEMS, D. H. Lawrence. 64pp. 0-486-40647-4
LIFE IS A DREAM, Pedro Caldern de la Barca. 96pp. 0-486-42124-4
H. M. S. PINAFORE, William Schwenck Gilbert. 64pp. 0-486-41114-1
THE MIKADO, William Schwenck Gilbert. 64pp. 0-486-27268-0
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, Oliver Goldsmith. 80pp. 0-486-26867-5
THE LOWER DEPTHS, Maxim Gorky. 80pp. 0-486-41115-X
A DOLLS HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen. 80pp. 0-486-27062-9
GHOSTS, Henrik Ibsen. 64pp. 0-486-29852-3
HEDDA GABLER, Henrik Ibsen. 80pp. 0-486-26469-6
PEER GYNT, Henrik Ibsen. 144pp. 0-486-42686-6
THE WILD DUCK, Henrik Ibsen. 96pp. 0-486-41116-8
VOLPONE, Ben Jonson. 112pp. 0-486-28049-7
DR. FAUSTUS, Christopher Marlowe. 64pp. 0-486-28208-2
TAMBURLAINE, Christopher Marlowe. 128pp. 0-486-42125-2
THE IMAGINARY INVALID, Molire. 96pp. 0-486-43789-2
THE MISANTHROPE, Molire. 64pp. 0-486-27065-3
RIGHT YOU ARE, IF YOU THINK YOU ARE, Luigi Pirandello. 64pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-29576-1
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, Luigi Pirandello. 64pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-29992-9
PHDRE, Jean Racine. 64pp. 0-486-41927-4
HANDS AROUND, Arthur Schnitzler. 64pp. 0-486-28724-6
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, William Shakespeare. 128pp. 0-486-40062-X
AS YOU LIKE IT, William Shakespeare. 80pp. 0-486-40432-3
HAMLET, William Shakespeare. 128pp. 0-486-27278-8
HENRY IV, William Shakespeare. 96pp. 0-486-29584-2
JULIUS CAESAR, William Shakespeare. 80pp. 0-486-26876-4
KING LEAR, William Shakespeare. 112pp. 0-486-28058-6
LOVES LABOURS LOST, William Shakespeare. 64pp. 0-486-41929-0
MACBETH, William Shakespeare. 96pp. 0-486-27802-6
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, William Shakespeare. 96pp. 0-486-40889-2
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, William Shakespeare. 96pp. 0-486-28492-1
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, William Shakespeare. 80pp. 0-486-27067-X
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, William Shakespeare. 80pp. 0-486-28272-4
OTHELLO, William Shakespeare. 112pp. 0-486-29097-2
RICHARD III, William Shakespeare. 112pp. 0-486-28747-5
ROMEO AND JULIET, William Shakespeare. 96pp. 0-486-27557-4
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, William Shakespeare. 96pp. 0-486-29765-9
THE TEMPEST, William Shakespeare. 96pp. 0-486-40658-X
TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL, William Shakespeare. 80pp. 0-486-29290-8
ARMS AND THE MAN, George Bernard Shaw. 80pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-26476-9
HEARTBREAK HOUSE, George Bernard Shaw. 128pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-29291-6
PYGMALION, George Bernard Shaw. 96pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-28222-8
THE RIVALS, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 96pp. 0-486-40433-1
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 96pp. 0-486-26687-7
ANTIGONE, Sophocles. 64pp. 0-486-27804-2
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, Sophocles. 64pp. 0-486-40659-8
OEDIPUS REX, Sophocles. 64pp. 0-486-26877-2
A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, Daniel Defoe. 192pp. 0-486-41919-3
SIX GREAT SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 112pp. 0-486-27055-6
SHORT STORIES, Theodore Dreiser. 112pp. 0-486-28215-5
SILAS MARNER, George Eliot. 160pp. 0-486-29246-0
JOSEPH ANDREWS, Henry Fielding. 288pp. 0-486-41588-0
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, F. Scott Fitzgerald. 208pp. 0-486-28999-0
THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ AND OTHER STORIES, F. Scott Fitzgerald. 0-486-29991-0
MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert. 256pp. 0-486-29257-6
THE REVOLT OF MOTHER AND OTHER STORIES, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. 128pp. 0-486-40428-5
A ROOM WITH A VIEW, E. M. Forster. 176pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-28467-0
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, E. M. Forster. 128pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-27791-7
THE IMMORALIST, Andr Gide. 112pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-29237-1
HERLAND, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 128pp. 0-486-40429-3
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER AND OTHER STORIES, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 80pp. 0-486-29857-4
THE OVERCOAT AND OTHER STORIES, Nikolai Gogol. 112pp. 0-486-27057-2
CHELKASH AND OTHER STORIES, Maxim Gorky. 64pp. 0-486-40652-0
GREAT GHOST STORIES, John Grafton (ed.). 112pp. 0-486-27270-2
DETECTION BY GASLIGHT, Douglas G. Greene (ed.). 272pp. 0-486-29928-7
THE MABINOGION, Lady Charlotte E. Guest. 192pp. 0-486-29541-9
THE FIDDLER OF THE REELS AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, Thomas Hardy. 80pp. 0-486-29960-0
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP AND OTHER STORIES, Bret Harte. 96pp. 0-486-27271-0
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 272pp. 0-486-40882-5
THE SCARLET LETTER, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 192pp. 0-486-28048-9
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN AND OTHER STORIES, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 128pp. 0-486-27060-2
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, O. Henry. 96pp. 0-486-27061-0
THE ASPERN PAPERS, Henry James. 112pp. 0-486-41922-3
THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE AND OTHER STORIES, Henry James. 128pp. 0-486-27552-3
DAISY MILLER, Henry James. 64pp. 0-486-28773-4
THE TURN OF THE SCREW, Henry James. 96pp. 0-486-26684-2
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