Simon Schuster. To win portia, bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father’s will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that “droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
The authoritative edition of the merchant of venice from the folger shakespeare library, includes: -freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading Essay by Alexander Leggatt The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe.
In creating shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. If he fails, he may never marry at all. In the merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. For more information, visit Folger.
A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary Edition Signet Classics
With an introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by A. N. The french revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times. The storming of the bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities.
With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. Wilson Signet Classics.
Little Rock Catholic Study Bible: Hardcover
John's university school of theology, has published two books and numerous articles, and is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association. His current interest is in the letters of Saint Paul and the Acts of the Apostles. Her work in adult faith formation involves writing, lecturing, editing, leading retreats and days of reflection.
She is the editor of a year of Sundays and an associate editor of The Bible Today, a journal of biblical spirituality. New testament Editor: Ronald D. Colorful maps, timelines, photographs, and charts further enhance the study experience. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas. The valuable information in the little Rock Catholic Study Bible is offered in small notes and inserts that accompany the Bible texts as well as in expanded essays, articles, and graphics.
She is also a member of the Committee on Illuminations and Texts for The Saint John's Bible. Signet Classics.
Crime and Punishment Signet Classics
With an introduction by Leonard J. Hardy Jr. And an afterword by Robin Feuer Miller Signet Classics. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. Signet Classics. Stanton and James D. But when he puts this belief to the test, he suffers unbearably. Dostoyevsky’s epic masterpiece, unabridged, with an afterword by robin Feuer MillerOne of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia’s troubled transition to the modern age.
In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student.
The Metamorphosis
Signet Classics. One morning, as gregor samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. Signet Classics.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Penguin Classics
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Be prepared to perform what you promised, gawain; seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King Arthur’s court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback.
Signet Classics. The following winter gawain sets out to find the Knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Signet Classics. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. One of the great masterpieces of middle english poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tale and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval Romance.
Brian stone’s evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the Romance genre, and the poem’s epic and pagan sources.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition
Signet Classics. New york times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, later, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, from Grendel's mother.
He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. Bilingual edition--old english anglo-saxon and english translation. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.
The Odyssey
Sing to me of the man, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, Muse, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins robert fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement. If the iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life.
In the myths and legends retold here, to savor, fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, contemporary idiom, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This penguin classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.
Renowned classicist bernard knox's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation.
The Chosen: A Novel
. Great product! . Signet Classics. Signet Classics. Its themes are profound and universal. The wall street journalit is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again.
Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel.
The Inferno Signet Classics
The first part of dante’s divine comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan. One of the few literary works that has enjoyed a fame both immediate and enduring, The Inferno remains powerful after seven centuries.
Bilingual edition--old english anglo-saxon and english translation. Great product! Macallisterand an Afterword by Edward M. Signet Classics. It confronts the most universal values—good and evil, free will and predestination—while remaining intensely personal and ferociously political, for it was born out of the anguish of a man who saw human life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his times.
Translated by john CiardiWith an Introduction by Archibald T.
In Cold Blood
On november 15, kansas, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
As truman capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In cold blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
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