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1) The brothers Karamazov

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Volume

t12

Earliest Publication Date

1950

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A monumental new translation--the first in more than twenty years--of Russia's greatest family drama, rendered with all the passion, humor, and soul of the original. Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons--the eponymous brothers Karamazov--and...

2) The history of Tom Jones, a foundling

Author

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754

Volume

t15

Earliest Publication Date

1950

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"A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire--though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century...

3) The Iliad

Author

Homer

Volume

t22

Earliest Publication Date

1950

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"When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...

4) Six plays by Henrik Ibsen

Author

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906

Volume

t24

Earliest Publication Date

1957

5) Selected works

Author

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

Volume

t49

Earliest Publication Date

1951

6) Complete writings: The Peloponnesian war

Author

Thucydides

Volume

t51

Earliest Publication Date

1951

7) Light in August

Author

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

Volume

t68

Earliest Publication Date

1950

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A landmark in American fiction, Light in August published in 1932, explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas-a man doomed, deracinated and alone-wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is, pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and...

8) The sound and the fury

Author

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

Volume

t94

Earliest Publication Date

1900

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"First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is a masterpiece of modernist literature. Although Faulkner originally called it his "most splendid failure," the novel is renowned for its innovative narrative technique which brings to life a haunting tale of the American South set in his most famous fictional creation, Yoknapatawpha County. Told largely through the innermost thoughts of the Compson brothers as they grapple with the demise of southern...

9) Eight plays

Author

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906

Earliest Publication Date

1982

10) Existentialism

Author

Solomon, Robert C

Earliest Publication Date

1974

11) Introduction to Aristotle

Author

Aristotle

Earliest Publication Date

1947

12) Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647

Author

Bradford, William, 1590-1657

Earliest Publication Date

1952

13) Paradise lost

Author

Milton, John, 1608-1674

Earliest Publication Date

1969

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"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve the temptation and fall is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking...

14) Selected poetry of Robert Browning

Author

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

Earliest Publication Date

1951

15) The complete works of Tacitus

Author

Tacitus, Cornelius

Earliest Publication Date

1942

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Ancient Roman senator and historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus is known throughout Western history as one of the greatest historical writers of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He lived during the first century AD and was the son of a wealthy aristocratic family. Not much is known about his personal life; however, it is clear that both Tacitus and Pliny the Elder were acquaintances and even possibly childhood friends, though there is no substantial...

16) The Federalist: a commentary on the Constitution of the United States, being a collection of essays written in support of the Constitution agreed upon September 17, 1787, by the Federal convention

Earliest Publication Date

1937

17) The selected writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Earliest Publication Date

1950

18) The works of Plato

Author

Plato

Earliest Publication Date

1928

19) Walden, and other writings

Author

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Earliest Publication Date

1950

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"From July 4, 1845 to September 6, 1847 Henry David Thoreau lived alone in the cabin he built on the shores of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts. Walden is the classic account of his stay--his experiment in essential living. This book is framed as a narrative of the cycle of one year, beginning with summer. Thoreau uses the changes of the day, the seasons, and the year to symbolize the quiet revolution that is going on inside him. His specific...