Belonging in the company of the works of Homer and Virgil, The Inferno is a moving human drama, a journey through thetorment of Hell, an expression of the Middle Ages, and a protestagainst the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan.
In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematicianwith a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down arabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhapsthe most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholarshave tried to define the charm of the Alice books–with thosewonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum,and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter etal.– by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire onlanguage, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’sliterature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiasticalhistory. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is nomore than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulationsof growing up–or down, or all turned round–as seen through theexpert eyes of a child.
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voiceof a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emergethe passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutalself-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn andiconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of thegreatest antiheroes in all literature. "Notes From Underground,"published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: itannounces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on amonumental scale in "Crime And Punishment," "The Idiot," and "TheBrothers Karamazov." And it remains to this day one of the mostsearingly honest and universal testaments to human despair everpenned. "The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of ourcentury...confirm the status of "Notes from Underground" as one ofthe most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of Europeanfiction."-from the Introduction by Donald Fanger
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayy m. Fitzgerald's masterful translation was first published as an anonymous pamphlet in 1859. Its colourful, exotic and remote imagery greatly appealed to the Victorian age's fascination with the Orient, while its luxurious sensual warmth acted as a striking counterpoint to the growth of scientific determinism, industrialisation and the soulless Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the fittest. Greatly praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin and William Morris, the romantic melancholy of the poem anticipates the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, while its epicurean motifs link it to the Aesthetic Movement.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good marriages for her and her sisters in order to secure their future. The protagonists Darcy and Elizabeth learn much about themselves and those around them and Austen's expertly crafted comedy characters of Mrs Bennet and Mr Collins demonstrate her great artistry as a writer.
In Aristophanes’ most popular play, sex is a powerful agent ofreconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, ledby Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until theystop fighting. And the battle of the sexes begins
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These three masterworks placed the great seventeenth-centuryEnglish poet Milton beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, andVirgil in the pantheon of world literature. A monumental achievement,Parudise Lost is the epic poem about the magnificent Lucifer, whose failed rebellion against Heaven's tyranny casts him into thedarkness of Hell and leads to man's fall from grace. SamsonAgonistes, the greatest English drama modeled on the Greekclassics, depicts blinded, once-mighty Samson regaining his strength as God's champion and delivering his people-whilede-stroying himself and his captors. And "Lycidas" is animmortal elegy on lost hopes and the nature of fate. Written in a grandstyle of superb power, these works display a majesty of lan- guage, a sublime wealth of detail, and the unmistakable genius ofone of literature's greatest minds.
It is a timeless story of war and vengeance, of Good versusEvil. And at the center of this heroic epic stands Roland-thesupreme embodiment of chivalry and honor.
With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolutionbrings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving peoplerising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadentregime.
An international team of scholars offers:?? modernised, easilyaccessible texts?? ample but unobtrusive academic guidance??attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stagehistory?? informative illustations, including reconstructions ofearly performances --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.
