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The Return Of The Native has been considered as one of Thomas Hardy's greatest novels and one of the great works of late Victorian fiction. Egdon Heath, sunk in history, representing both the indifferent world of nature and the stage on which human dramas have been enacted since time immemorial, se... More

A shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics—and one of the world’s supreme masterpieces of storytelling. ‘Almost every individual living in India,’ writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, â€... More

Introduction by Timothy Binyon Translated by Vladimir and Dmitri Nabokov "From the Hardcover edition.... More

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-millionfold, or evolving new, distinct species. Consider the technology of space colonization, and computer-assisted reproduction. Freeman Dyson marsh... More

Tradition ascribes the Pancatantra, a collection of fables from India, to Visnu Sarma whose existence has not been conclusively established. Faced with the challenge of educating three unlettered princes, Visnu Sarma evolved a unique pedagogy -- for his aim was to teach the princes how to think, no... More

An Imaginative rendition of the thirteenth century poet, Omar Khayyan, much of the critical debate centers upon translation as an aesthetic genre which renews itself with the remote past. Written during a time of great personal loss for FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat is very much a part of the mid Victori... More

In a writing career spanning seven decades, R.K. Narayan enthralled and entertained generations of readers with his deftly etched characters, his uniquely stylized language and his wry sense of humour. A storyteller par excellence, Narayan’s greatest achievement perhaps lies in creating and peopli... More

The North American Cambridge Latin Course is a well-established four-part Latin program whose approach combines a stimulating, continuous storyline with grammatical development, work on derivatives, and cultural information. There is also a complete Language Information section, plus numerous color ... More

In this Readers' Guide, Daniel Lea takes a decisive path through the maze of interpretations that has accumulated around Orwell's best-known novels, examining critical reactions from the beginning of the Cold War through to the collapse of Communist Eastern Europe, and at the same time placing Orwel... More

Prose Edda is a work without predecessor or parallel. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe. Prose Edda was designed as a handbook for poets ... More

The three classic works are presented with analyses of the factual presentation and dramatic treatment of the Oedipus legend in each play... More

Volume 1-Second Edition. In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically... More