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Bound to whet your appetite.
....If you're like me, however, the first time you read Shakespeare you were so confused you were ready to chuck
the play off the nearest bridge and pick up the TV Guide. But, also, if you're like me, you had to read it for class."
It is also said that Elizabeth Bennet is Jane Austen...."
"While this [site] is organized primarily to encourage men, women are most welcome, and have participated here
as full and equal partners. Most women will find the male perspective quite a bit different than that displayed at
the other Jane-Austen forums on the web...not a university or a coffee house...a bit of a locker-room
atmosphere prevailed—raucous and incautious at times if always gentlemanly."
complete common sense of Jane Austen. She could keep her head, while all the after women went looking for their
brains. She could describe a man coolly..."
The Canterbury Tales: Still great after 700 years. A must for all lovers of great literature. Chaucer presents one of the motliest crews in English literature, entertains with stories; bawdy, raucous tale, morally sound fable.
But it will be thought of as a very sad time for separate, standalone works of visual art, music, and poetry.
"Oedipus the King" is a monument to Sophocles's dramatic genius, and to the freedom of Athenian thought.
It develops a shocking, profoundly immoral idea about a human being's ultimate relationship to the universe.
Thankfully, there is no reason to think that Sophocles's idea is true, or that Sophocles really believed it.
Commentators on Sophocles, beginning with Aristotle, have tried to cover over the obvious.
This explains the nonsense about "tragic flaws" and "hybris".
A large part of it was published in covers with the title, The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author
had not the power to reject or happiness to approve...[By] this explanation the author
hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed --enlightened souls who prefer
dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang.
for both pure reading pleasure and for research.
Recommended by the British Broadcasting Corporation
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