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Euripides - Electra (Murray Translation)

Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemnon. Married platonically to a good-hearted but poverty-stricken old peasant,...

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristophanes - Clouds

Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he can purchase lessons from the famous Socrates in ways to manipulate language in...

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Single author

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Walt Whitman - Drum-Taps

Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response to Whitman's personal observations of the Civil War, many of which come from...

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Satire

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Aristophanes - Acharnians (Billson Translation)

Loaded with cryptic, nearly indecipherable inside jokes and double entendres, this early comedy of Aristophanes has a simple, anti-war premise that resounds down the centuries. On flimsy pretexts, greedy politicians...

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Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

Humorous Fiction

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Unknown - Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote . Rendered homeless by the arrest of his...

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Electra (Storr Translation)

Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was...

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Philoctetes (Campbell Translation)

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles...

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Tragedy

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Euripides - Medea (Way Translation)

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a barbarian and the wife of Jason; she finds her...

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Saga of Erik the Red (Reeves Translation)

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Unknown - Saga of Erik the Red (Reeves Translation)

The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, along with The Saga of the Greenlanders. Containing fantastic anecdotes about...

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Ajax (Campbell Translation)

Ajax is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC. The date of Ajax's first performance is unknown and may never be found, but most scholars regard it as an early work, c. 450 — 430 BC. It chronicles the fate of...

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Tragedy

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Euripides - Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation)

Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as «perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written,» «The Trojan Women,» also known as «Troades,» is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC...

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Antigone (Plumptre Translation)

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, «Antigone» has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience....

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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