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The Riverside Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorThe Complete Pelican Shakespeare
William Shakespeare · 1,481 pages
THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME SHAKESPEARE, INCLUDING ALL THE PLAYS AND POEMS, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED. The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this fully revised new hardcover edition of “The Complete Pelican Shakespeare”. Since the series debuted more than forty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized our u
The Riverside Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer · 1,327 pages
This edition provides the general information on Chaucer's life, language, and works that one needs for a first reading of Chaucer, and difficult words and constructions are glossed on the pages. The Appendix contains the materials, including the extensive notes and glossary, for a more thorough understanding of Chaucer's works.
The Riverside Milton
John Milton · 1,213 pages
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
Dante Alighieri · 258 pages
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft · 852 pages
At the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now, well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction. Editor Leslie S. Klinger charts the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and re
The Lays of Beleriand
J.R.R. Tolkien · 393 pages
This is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published. Volumes 1 and 2 were the Book of Lost Tales, Part One and The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two. Together, these volumes encompass an extraordinarily extensive body of material ornamenting and buttressing
The I Ching or Book of Changes
Anonymous · 740 pages
A translation of the early document of Chinese philosophy with explanatory notes.
Howl
Allen Ginsberg · 194 pages
This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams · 158 pages
Members of a neurotic Southern family gather to face the impending death of their patriarch, Big Daddy, and battle over the inheritance of his vast estate.
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
Sophocles · 272 pages
The Oresteia
Aeschylus · 195 pages
The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek ant
The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
T.S. Eliot · 392 pages
Collected poems (1909-1935) -- Four quartets -- Old Possum's book of practical cats -- Murder in the cathedral -- The family reunion -- The cocktail party
Requiem for a Nun
William Faulkner · 251 pages
This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel, 'Sanctuary', was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in 'Sanctuary'. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. In an attempt to save her, Temple goes to see the judge t
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter · 518 pages
One of Newsweek’s Best Books of the Year and winner of the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement. A cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. This timeless poetry is beautifully wrought by a scholar whose translation of the Five Books of Moses was hailed as a “godsend” by Seamus Heaney and a “masterpi
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham · 332 pages
This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made *The Intelligent Investor* the s
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile
Allen Ginsberg, Barry Miles · 208 pages
The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins
John D. Rateliff, J.R.R. Tolkien · 512 pages
USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
John dos Passos · 1,312 pages
Poetics
Aristotle · 144 pages
One of the first books written on what is now called aesthetics. Although parts are lost (e.g., comedy), it has been very influential in western thought, such as the part on tragedy.
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull · 935 pages
The Treason of Isengard: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Two
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien · 504 pages
The Treason of Isengard is the second volume of The History of The Lord of the Rings and the seventh volume of The History of Middle-earth. The Treason of Isengard continues the account of the creation of The Lord of the Rings started in the earlier volume, The Return of the Shadow. In this book, following the long halt in the darkness of the Mines of Moria with which The Return of the Shadow e
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 150th Anniversary: The Short Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1,336 pages
The October 1956 reprint of the October 1928 First Edition published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. Manufactured by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Fromme and London. Includes Conan Doyle's Preface from the 1928 ed.