The Best of Pickering

The Best of Pickering

Author: Sam Pickering

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2004-03-02

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780472113781

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More than two dozen essays visit the author's great themes -- family, nature, seizing the day, and the strange goings-on in Carthage, Tennessee


Impractical Jokes

Impractical Jokes

Author: Charlie Pickering

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1743310692

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'A diabolical ping-pong game of prank and counter-prank across the generations. Hilarious and warm-hearted, Impractical Jokes is both a comic evocation of the Australian larrikin spirit and an ode to a loving father.


The Best of the Playwrights: Tragedies and Comedies by the Masters. Illustrated

The Best of the Playwrights: Tragedies and Comedies by the Masters. Illustrated

Author: Euripides

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2021-07-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This collection contains the following works: Euripides: Medea Sophocles: Antigone Aeschylus: Agamemnon Aeschylus: Eumenides Aeschylus: The Choephori William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare: King Lear William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Coriolanus William Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, King of Britain William Shakespeare.: The Life of Tymon of Athens William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion


The Greatest Classics of All Time

The Greatest Classics of All Time

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-12-30

Total Pages: 28590

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The Greatest Classics of All Time presents an unparalleled assembly of the literary worlds most monumental works, spanning centuries, continents, and genres. This anthology celebrates the myriad facets of human experience, belief, and expression, captured through the diverse lenses of its illustrious authors. From the dramatic introspections of Shakespeare to the philosophical dialogues of Plato, and the pioneering adventures of Jules Verne, the collection showcases the evolution of literary styles and thematic concerns across time. The inclusion of seminal works by authors such as Dante and Cervantes alongside those by Emily Brontë and Mark Twain underlines the anthologys rich diversity, offering readers a comprehensive exploration of the literary canons breadth and depth. The contributing authors, each a titan in their respective field, bring a distinctive voice and cultural backdrop to the anthology, thus painting a mosaic of the human condition's intricacies. The collective genius of Goethe, Dickens, Austen, and their contemporaries, reflecting various historical epochs and movements, from the Enlightenment to Romanticism, and the Transcendental to the Realist, imbues the collection with unparalleled intellectual and artistic value. Their narratives, grounded in the societies from which they emerged, provide a panoramic view of human culture and thought, facilitating a unique dialog between the past and present. The Greatest Classics of All Time stands as an eminent invitation to readers and scholars alike to immerse themselves in the virtuosity of its pages. It is not just a compendium of the worlds most acclaimed literary works; it is a vibrant conversation through the ages, encouraging an engagement with the ideas, emotions, and visions that have shaped our world. For anyone seeking to comprehend the expanse of human creativity and the literary feats that have contributed to our collective intellectual heritage, this anthology is an indispensable resource and a wellspring of inspiration.


The Greatest Classics Ever Written

The Greatest Classics Ever Written

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 28592

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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of the greatest world classics: Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobé) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Botchan (Soseki Natsume)...