Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Category: Classics
Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upsi ...Show more
Anna Akhmatova : Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
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Category: Classics
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is among the most moving and revered voices in Russian literature. A poet of passion and conscience, she was persecuted after the Revolution and under Stalin, but chose to remain in Russia and bear witness. Her works capture a rich emotional world - poems such as "A Ride" and ...Show more
The Complete Fables by AESOP
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies' downfall first' In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quic ...Show more
My Penguin The "Complete Fables" by Aesop
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Category: Classics
"Sardonic", wry and wise, Aesop's "Fables" are some of the most enduring and well-loved literary creations in history. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking ...Show more
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: Classics
"The Saga of the Greenlanders" and "Eirik the Red's Saga" contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of G ...Show more
The Qur'an by M.A.Abdel Haleem
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...Show more
A Loeb Classical Library Reader by Loeb Classical Library
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Category: Classics
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reporting, satire and fiction - giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture. The selections span 12 ...Show more
Laxdaela Saga by Magnus Magnusson
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics S.
Written around 1245 by an unknown author, the Laxdaela Saga is an extraordinary tale of conflicting kinships and passionate love, and one of the most compelling works of Icelandic literature. Covering 150 years in the lives of the inhabitants of the community of Laxriverdale, the saga focuses primarily ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
As private secretary to the emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye witness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded abso ...Show more
Twelve Caesars, The by Suetonius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery and stability that came with his successors.
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Based on eyewitness accounts and his own unlimited access to the Emperor Hadrian's Imperial archives, the scholar Suetonius wrote a sweeping account of the lives of twelve of Rome's most powerful emperors. From the empire's most shining examples of ruling competency, such as Julius Caesar and Augustus, ...Show more