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Brief tales about animals illustrate moral principles and lessons of life, and include the stories of a crow who finds a clever way to get a drink of water, and a disappointed fox who decides the grapes he couldn't reach were sour.

Aesop's Fables

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Massachusetts

Winston Smith is a worker at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies records for the party. Secretly subversive, he and his colleague Julia try to free themselves from political slavery but the price of freedom is betrayal.

1984

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#paperback #classic #DHLawrence #Banned #TheVirginandtheGipsy #sex #VirginandtheGipsy 1978 Bantam Books paperback edition of "The Virgin and the Gipsy", by D. H. Lawrence. Nice copy! Excellent condition. Undamaged, unbroken, tight spine. Straight, still glossy cover. Lightly, evenly aged pages. Ships in (1) business day! More about "The Virgin and the Gipsy": 
"The Virgin and the Gipsy" was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels.

Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten and yet still paralyzed by her own fear and social convention. Not until a natural catastrophe suddenly, miraculously sweeps away the world as she knew it does a new world of passion open for her. 

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The Virgin and the Gipsy

#paperback #classic #DHLawrence #banned #SonsandLovers #sex "Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence. 1977 Penguin Paperback edition. Very decent copy. Good to Excellent condition. Some light wear to cover. Some sun fading to upper end of spine, toward spine on cover. Spine unbroken. Light, even aging of pages. Ships in (1) business day!

Penguin Books 1977 paperback 

Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden forlong. Paul Morel is caught between his need for family and community and his efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's relationships makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of thetwentieth.

Sons and Lovers

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#paperback #DHLawrence #LadyChatterleysLover #Banned #classic #sex 1978 Penguin Books paperback edition. Nice copy! Excellent condition: cover shows minimal wear, with some sun-fading to upper portion of spine. Spine unbroken. Pages lightly, evenly aged. Small stain to lower edge of pages (see photos of bottom edge of book.) Ships in (1) business day! More about "The Rainbow":
 "The Rainbow" by D. H. Lawrence. With an Introduction by Richard Aldington. Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in 'The Rainbow' caused a furor and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published in 1915. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century. 'The Rainbow' is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence's essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the rainbow of the title is his unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfillment within marriage and changing social circumstances. This is a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. 

Penguin Books 1978 paperback

The Rainbow

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A young boy living in mid-nineteenth century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Selected Works

Three novels deal with working class life, a military officer's desires, and a woman's affair

D. H. Lawrence

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Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, this is the most acclaimed translation of THE ODYSSEY of our time.

The Odyssey

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This is one of Shakespeare's darkest comedies, for the romantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves is set against the more disturbing story of the Jewish moneylender Shylock and his demand for the "pound of flesh" owed him by the Venetian merchant, Antonio. Here pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglement to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best.

Each Edition Includes:
* Comprehensive explanatory notes
* Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship
* Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English
* Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories
* An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography

The Merchant of Venice

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Omar Khayyám (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. Later, a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not all were his works. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), an English country gentleman, published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry. After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others, the verse became extremely popular. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic, Omar Khayyám, through FitzGerald, spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response. As a result, the Rubáiyát became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics. The fifth edition, published posthumously in 1889, was based on FitzGerald's handwritten changes in a copy of the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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The Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, and Assemblywomen of Aristophanes

Three Plays by Aristophanespresents Aristophanes' three women's comedies in a single volume and in unexpurgated, annotated translations. There are introductions to each play, and general introductory chapters cover Aristophanes, his theater and the women in his plays; an appendix contains relevant additional material from Aristophanes' lost comedies. Three Plays by Aristophaneswill interest both readers of classical drama and students of gender studies and social history.

Staging Women

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The course of true love never did run smooth... A magical retelling of Hermia, Helen, Demetrius and Lysander's classic story - and of the impish fairy Puck, who meddles in their tangled web of love with hilarious consequences... ..

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Howard's End

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And His Wife Messalina

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I, Claudius 

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set in motion. Yon meant me to epater le bourgeois; and if he protests, I hereby refer him to you as the accountable party. I warn you that if you attempt to repudiate your responsibility, I shall suspect you of finding the play too decorous for your taste. The fifteen years have made me older and graver. In you I can detect no such becoming change. Your levities and audacities are like the loves and comforts prayed for by Desdemona: they increase, even as your days do grow. No mere pioneering journal dares meddle with them now: the stately Times itself is alone sufficiently above suspicion to act as your chaperone; and even the Times must sometimes thank its stars that new plays are not produced every day, since after each such event its gravity is compromised, its platitude turned to epigram, its portentousness to wit, its propriety to elegance, and even its decorum into naughtiness by criticisms which the traditions of the paper do not allow you to sign at the end, but which you take care to sign with the most extravagant flourishes between the lines. I am not sure that this is not a portent of Revolution. In eighteenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Diderot there. When I buy the Times and find you there, my prophetic ear catches a rattle of twentieth century tumbrils.

Man and Superman (Penguin Books, 1966)

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James's, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid and airless in its slums; strong in comfortable, prosperous middle class life; wide-streeted, myriad-populated; well-served with ugly iron urinals, Radical clubs, tram lines, and a perpetual stream of yellow cars; enjoying in its main thoroughfares the luxury of grass-grown "front gardens," untrodden by the foot of man save as to the path from the gate to the hall door; but blighted by an intolerable monotony of miles and miles of graceless, characterless brick houses, black iron railings, stony pavements, slaty roofs, and respectably ill dressed or disreputably poorly dressed people, quite accustomed to the place, and mostly plodding about somebody else's work, which they would not do if they themselves could help it. The little energy and eagerness that crop up show themselves in cockney cupidity and business "push." Even the policemen and the chapels are not infrequent enough to break the monotony.The sun is shining cheerfully; there is no fog; and though the smoke effectually prevents anything, whether faces and hands or bricks and mortar, from looking fresh and clean, it is not hanging heavily enough to trouble a Londoner.

Candida : Definitive Text (Penguin Books, 1986)

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The Great Gatsby

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Deptford Trilogy

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Or, Life among the Lowly

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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The Scarlet Letter (w/dust jacket)

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Essays and Poems

'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American essayistand poet. One of the young nation's first recognised public intellectuals, hechampioned the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and opined oneverything from the evils of slavery to the glories of solitude. His essayssuch as Self-Reliance argued for a distinctly American style of philosophicalindividualism, untethered to hidebound traditions and prejudices. 

Edited by professor David Mikics (The Annotated Emerson) and enhanced with gorgeous woodcuts byCharles W. Smith, this collection of Emerson's essays and poetry is a beautifulintroduction to one of America's greatest writers and thinkers.

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S. A. Handford; D. L. Ashliman (Introduction by, Introductions and notes by); Aesop Aesop; V. S. Vernon Jones (Translator); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)

Aesop's Fables

George Orwell; Erich Fromm (Afterword by)

1984

D.H. Lawrence

The Virgin and the Gipsy

D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

D.H. Lawrence

The Rainbow

Mark Twain (Performed by); Robert O'Meally (Intro and Notes by, Introduction by)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

David Herbert Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

Homer; Robert Fitzgerald; Jackie Schuman (Illustrator)

The Odyssey

William Shakespeare; David Bevington (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Editor)

The Merchant of Venice

Edward FitzGerald

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Jeffrey Henderson (Editor, Translator)

Staging Women

Andrew Mathews

A Midsummer Night's Dream

E.M. Forester

Howard's End

Arlie Wiesel

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Robert Graves

Claudius the God

Robert Graves

I, Claudius

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman (Penguin Books, 1966)

George Bernard Shaw

Candida : Definitive Text (Penguin Books, 1986)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Mark Twain (Performed by); Robert O'Meally (Intro and Notes by, Introduction by)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Robertson Davies

Deptford Trilogy

Harriet Beecher Stowe; George Stade (Consultant Editor); Amanda Claybaugh (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (w/dust jacket)

Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Mikics (Introduction by)

The Illustrated Emerson