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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1984.
Edition
First Harvest edition, 1984.
Language
English
Description
"There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure." 'The Common Reader' is a collection of essays that, as the title suggests, is for the common reader — the one who reads for pleasure's sake. Shedding academic language and the high brow style, Virginia Woolf explores authors like Jane Austen...
82) Jonathan Swift
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on Swift and his work. Also includes a chronology of events in his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this provocative book addresses such questions as, “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?” It calls on us to become stronger...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
"Why do we write?"
With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand the source...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Beloved author C. S. Lewis's magisterial take on English literature and poetry from the Norman Conquest through the mid-seventeenth century, including Lewis's perspective on writers such as Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Thomas Cranmer, and many more"--
91) Julius Caesar
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
94) Beowulf
Language
English
Description
Includes information about the author of "Beowulf, " thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of King Lear on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary.
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