Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
by Asha Srivastava and Alok Srivastava
Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened. There were dogs in the house but they were no bother. Listen carefully.'In the spring of 1933 Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were living in their country house at Bilignin, France. With money earned from the best-selling 'Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' they installed electricity, had a telephone put in their house and bought a large car. But with these improvements came...
The Wild Irish Girl (Mothers of the novel) (Revolution & Romanticism S., 1789-1834)
by Lady Morgan
'I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman' When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and dissipated living, he adopts the persona of knight errant and goes off in search of adventure. On the wild west coast of Connaught he finds remnants of a romantic Gaelic past a dilapidated castle, a Catholic priest, a deposed king and the king's lovely and learned daughter, Glorvina. In this setting and a...
Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha-as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disci...
Ia Great Authors - Chekov (Great Authors (Audio))
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Ralph Cosham
The 73 three short stories and 15 unfinished fragments contained in this volume represent the whole range of Katherine Mansfield's writing. Contemporary critics compared her to Chekhov in her treatment of apparently trifling incidents and her symbolic use of objects to convey powerful atmosphere.
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings 1936-1941 (LOA #86) (Library of America John Steinbeck Edition, #2)
by John Steinbeck
The second volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with the rhythms of living speech. The novel won the Puli...
Jude the Obscure: Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition
by Thomas Hardy
Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes
by Howard Washington Odum
Lettres de Gluck Et de Weber. Ouvrage Orné de Portraits Et d'Autographes
by Von Gluck-C