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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and drunkenness follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters on which t ...Show more
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (Translator); Bernard Knox (Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
MRS. SPRING FRAGRANCE A COLLECTION OF CHINESE-AMERICAN SHORT STORIES by SUI SIN FAR
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Category: Classics
Middlemarch (Penguin Black Classic) by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change ...Show more
Pygmalion (Penguin Classics) by Dan H. Bernard; Laurence Shaw
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Category: 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
Rockabye by Joanna Murray-Smith
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Category: Classics
Sidney can feel her career slipping down the plughole. No one loves a pop star when she's forty - not if she isn't Madonna or Kylie. So unless she wants to join the ranks of the has-beens on the casino circuit, she better get herself a hit. But what if she regains the whole world and still feels that so ...Show more
Signet Classic: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
Notes on the background and sources of the tragedy and past and present criticism preface the text.
The Secret of Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay; John Taylor (Intro and Notes by); Yvonne Rousseau (Commentaries by); Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Commentaries by)
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Category: Classics
Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Shakespeare S.
The beautiful but sharp-tongued Katherina has sworn, never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. But when she is pursued by the wily Petruchio, it seems that she has finally met her match. And as he meets her own caustic words with a feigned, capricious cruelty, Katherina quickly comes to under ...Show more
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions
The Student Edition of Ibsen's classic play, in Michael Meyer's definitive translation.