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Shakespeare eBook Series

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  • Shakespeare in Birds and Music

    by James Edmund Harting, Edward W. Naylore ...
    Series series Shakespeare
    Shakespeare in Birds and Music is a pairing of the two oddest works ever written about Shakespeare. The first, entitled The Ornithology of Shakespeare and written by James Edmund Harting, describes all the allusions to birds that appear in Shakespeare’s works.The second, entitled Shakespeare and Music and written by Edward W. Naylor, describes the musical instruments popular around the time of ... Read more

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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Enriched edition. Eternal Youth and Moral Decay: A Gothic Tale of Beauty, Vanity, and Corruption

    by Oscar Wilde, Autumn Ainsworth ...
    In "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Oscar Wilde explores themes of hedonism, moral decay, and the relationship between beauty and ethics through a blend of Gothic and philosophical prose. The novel follows the young and impressionable Dorian Gray, who becomes enamored with his own portrait painted by Basil Hallward, leading him to wish for eternal youth and beauty. As Dorian descends into a world of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hard Times : [Illustrations and Free Audio Book Link]

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Series series Angel Nova Publication
    Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written before and after it.Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface, nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London.Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a ... Read more

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  • Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Shakespeare

    A Graphic Guide

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely ... Read more

    $6.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli

    Edited by John M. Najemy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

    by Tore Rem, Narve Fulsås ...
    Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy

    by Alexandra Coller ...
    Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that all three genres were, in fact, remarkably new, if dramatists’ intriguingly sympathetic portrayals of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Mind's Isle

    Imaginary Islands in English Fiction

    by Adrian Kempton ...
    Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past four centuries reveal the many ways in which they adapt, rewrite and refer back to these foundational ... Read more

    $53.79 CAD

  • Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory

    Transitions and Transformations

    Edited by Marguerite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Ruud van den Beuken ...
    Series Book 79 - Reimagining Ireland
    Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and ... Read more

    $85.59 CAD

  • The Metamorphoses of Lucretia

    Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    by Anna Livia Frassetto ...
    The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to the republican age. It is a myth about private and public dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution. Its themes, permanent features and variations are infinite. The metamorphoses of Lucretia are ... Read more

    $100.89 CAD

  • The Culture of the Body

    Genealogies of Modernity

    by Dalia Judovitz ...
    Series series The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
    What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs.The study ranges from Baroque, pre ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD