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THE BELLY OF PARIS
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island.
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MACBETH
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt.
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KING LEAR
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse.
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Written at the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career and featuring his most soaring poetic idiom, Antony and Cleopatra is both an immortal love story.
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THE WINTER'S TALE
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth.
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The Sonnets and Other Poems
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions—desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. Produced under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today's most accomplished Shakespearean scholars.
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The Origin of Species
Written by Charles Darwin
Foreword by Edward J. Larson
Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England, and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly "passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street."
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Written Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers.
Written by Plutarch
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by Victor Hanson
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king "should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him."
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