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The writer will feel that her object has been gained should any readers of these stories feel that for a little while they have left the toilful utilitarianism of the present day behind them, and, with it, its hampering restrictions of sordid actualities that are so murderous to imagination and to all romance.

These four dialogues cover time surrounding the execution of Socrates. As he was charged, tried, and condemned to death, the four dialogues stand as final testaments to his credo of virtue. These are texts that have shaped thousands of years of thought on the meaning of life and personal conduct.

A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow...

El autor de estos tratados ilumina el prodigioso infierno de la obra cervantina, un infierno donde el diablo y sus secuaces toman formas a veces esperadas pero casi siempre impredecibles. La posesión demoniaca, el ritual del exorcismo, lo objetos fáusticos, la satanización de las minorías y los...

Los demonios de Cervantes, obra compuesta por 5 parte o tratados en los cuales el autor desarrolla aspectos fundamentales de la obra de Miguel de Cervantes. A través de la exploración y reflexión sobre los “demonios” como elementos constitutivos y primordiales de la personalidad literaria del...

In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was...

The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship—and open...

For hopeless romantics who love the lyrical poetry of past centuries, here is a look at the classic love poems and what they say about love. As the great poets know, love is not all a bed of roses. There is heartbreak and desolation, as well as hearts soaring like angels and stories of great...

A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile...

Ci fu un'epoca in cui, se si incontravano altri esseri, non si sapeva con certezza se erano animali o dèi o signori di una specie o demoni o antenati. O semplicemente uomini. Un giorno, che durò molte migliaia di anni, Homo fece qualcosa che nessun altro ancora aveva tentato. Cominciò a imitare...

Author's Circle Non-Fiction Book of the Year Sarton Women's Book Prize Winner Guinevere’s journey from literary sinner to feminist icon took over one thousand years…and it’s not over yet. Literature tells us painfully little about Guinevere, mostly focusing on her sin and betrayal...

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has...

New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.

In this educational book, we're going to go over the Roman and Greek gods of Jupiter and Mars. Learning about myths will help you to better understand the cultures, traditions and belief of peoples who have long passed. Read slowly and try to understand the meanings behind these words. Don't you think the Greek and Romans have beautiful cultures and traditions?