
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer Bantam Classic

Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Heart of darkness and the secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. The secret Sharer.
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

C. Towering over the rest of greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, the surge and majesty of his choruses and, his ironic edge, above all, the agonies and triumphs of his characters.
This penguin classics edition features an introduction and notes by the renowned classicist Bernard Knox. 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 disciplines.
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Things Fall Apart

Penguin Books. Anchor Books. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
. A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world. Barack obama nominated as one of america’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThings Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy.
A true classic of world literature.
A Tale of Two Cities Bantam Classics

. Sidney carton joins that exhalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. Bantam Classics. A masterful pageant of idealism, love, and adventure -- in a Paris bursting with revolutionary frenzy, and a London alive with anxious anticipation -- A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most energetic and exciting works.
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Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen Bantam Classics

Bantam Classics. Here, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, in a single volume, Henrick Ibsen. Penguin Books. The wild duck—A poignant drama of lost illusions. Anchor Books.
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Anchor Books. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made the Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. After 103 weeks on the new york times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, riveting, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate.
Hamlet Folger Library Shakespeare

Among them: what is the ghost--hamlet's father demanding justice, a tempting demon, 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 Michael Neill Enjoy this updated Folger edition of Hamlet in either the handy pocket-sized mass market paperback ISBN 978-0743477123, Gertrude, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, elegant trade paperback featuring finer paper and wider margins ISBN 978-1451669411, unfaithful to her husband or complicit in his murder? The authoritative edition of Hamlet from The Folger Shakespeare Library, an angelic messenger? Does Hamlet go mad, or merely pretend to? Once he is sure that Claudius is a murderer, why does he not act? Was his mother, or Kindle edition ASIN B00IWTWDA6.
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The Metamorphosis Bantam Classics

It is the story of a young man who, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, a quintessentially alienated man. Auden wrote, “kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.
Penguin Books. When gregor samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. With this startling, bizarre, Kafka begins his masterpiece, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, The Metamorphosis. As W. H.
The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories The Schocken Kafka Library

A Doll's House Dover Thrift Editions

Nora's ultimate rejection of a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house" shocked theatergoers of the late 1800s and opened new horizons for playwrights and their audiences. But daring social themes are only one aspect of Ibsen's power as a dramatist. Penguin Books. Anchor Books. Simon Schuster. Schocken.
A doll's house shows as well his gifts for creating realistic dialogue, above all, a suspenseful flow of events and, psychologically penetrating characterizations that make the struggles of his dramatic personages utterly convincing. Here is a deeply absorbing play as readable as it is eminently playable, reprinted from an authoritative translation.
Bantam Classics. Dover Publications.