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The World Broke in Two

Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature

de Bill Goldstein ...

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of four revered authors during 1922, the birth year of modernism.A Lambda Literary Awards FinalistNamed a Best Book by NPR's Book ConciergeThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers—Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence—make over the course of ... Leer más

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A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of four revered authors during 1922, the birth year of modernism.A Lambda Literary Awards FinalistNamed a Best Book by NPR's Book ConciergeThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers—Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence—make over the course of
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King Lear

The New Oxford Shakespeare

de William Shakespeare, Emma Smith ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
''As flies to th' wanton boys are we to th' gods: They bite us for their sport.' Set in the recesses of British antiquity, King Lear broods on gift-giving, gratitude, service and love; the bonds that sustain human life within families, communities and the state. Concerned with what remains and what is possible when these bonds crack, cool off or come apart, the tragedy forces repeated ... Leer más

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''As flies to th' wanton boys are we to th' gods: They bite us for their sport.' Set in the recesses of British antiquity, King Lear broods on gift-giving, gratitude, service and love; the bonds that sustain human life within families, communities and the state. Concerned with what remains and what is possible when these bonds crack, cool off or come apart, the tragedy forces repeated
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The Sherlock Holmes Book

Big Ideas Simply Explained

de DK ...

Series series DK Big Ideas
Discover the key ideas, themes, and plotlines behind every case investigated by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the famous and celebrated stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with this original, graphics-led book.Using the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of witty illustrations, clear graphics, and inspirational quotes, The Sherlock Holmes Book is the perfect primer for newcomers and ... Leer más

$8.99 USD

Discover the key ideas, themes, and plotlines behind every case investigated by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the famous and celebrated stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with this original, graphics-led book.Using the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of witty illustrations, clear graphics, and inspirational quotes, The Sherlock Holmes Book is the perfect primer for newcomers and
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Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (LOA #251)

Edición de James Shapiro, Various ...

An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and
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Joyce's Allmaziful Plurabilities

Polyvocal Explorations of Finnegans Wake

Edición de Kimberly J. Devlin, Christine Smedley ...

Series series The Florida James Joyce Series
“A brilliantly collaged snapshot of the variety and wealth of literary criticism, and Joyce studies, today.”—Tony Thwaites, author of Joycean Temporalities“Celebrates the multiplicity and sheer rampant excess of Joyce’s prodigally polysemous text with seventeen different scholars employing a likewise prodigal range of critical methodologies.”—Patrick O’Neill, author of Impossible Joyce: Finnegans ... Leer más

$16.28 USD

“A brilliantly collaged snapshot of the variety and wealth of literary criticism, and Joyce studies, today.”—Tony Thwaites, author of Joycean Temporalities“Celebrates the multiplicity and sheer rampant excess of Joyce’s prodigally polysemous text with seventeen different scholars employing a likewise prodigal range of critical methodologies.”—Patrick O’Neill, author of Impossible Joyce: Finnegans
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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

de Helen Vendler ...

“A great achievement, the work of an author with an almost devout passion for good poems.”—Frank Kermode, New Republic“Criticism of the Sonnets, and by extension, critical accounts of poetry, will never be the same again.”—Tom Paulin, London Review of BooksThe definitive guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets from the most accomplished critic of our time.</s... ... Leer más

$22.04 USD

“A great achievement, the work of an author with an almost devout passion for good poems.”—Frank Kermode, New Republic“Criticism of the Sonnets, and by extension, critical accounts of poetry, will never be the same again.”—Tom Paulin, London Review of BooksThe definitive guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets from the most accomplished critic of our time.</s...
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What Matters in Jane Austen?

Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

de John Mullan ...

"An Austen lover's greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." ― The AtlanticWhich important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best ... Leer más

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"An Austen lover's greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." ― The AtlanticWhich important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

A Collection

de Ann Patchett ...

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick“I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book ReviewBlending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of ... Leer más

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A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick“I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book ReviewBlending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of
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Othello

de William Shakespeare ...

Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Othello, a tragedy of love and betrayal, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading editions of ... Leer más

$6.99 USD

The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Othello, a tragedy of love and betrayal, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading editions of
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The Age of Shakespeare

de Frank Kermode ...

Series Libro 15 - Modern Library Chronicles
In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its
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England in the Age of Shakespeare

de Jeremy Black ...

A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare's plays.How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and ... Leer más

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A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare's plays.How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and
... Leer más
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)

de C. S. Lewis ...

C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, and Thomas Cranmer.English Literature in the Sixteenth ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, and Thomas Cranmer.English Literature in the Sixteenth
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Thomas Hardy

de Claire Tomalin ...

"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own.The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own.The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual
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Shakespeare

The World as Stage

de Bill Bryson ...

Series Libro 63 - Eminent Lives
Bill Bryson’s bestselling and brilliantly witty biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a ... Leer más

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Bill Bryson’s bestselling and brilliantly witty biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a
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Topothesia

Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess

de Ameeth Vijay ...

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZETopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial ... Leer más

$31.58 USD

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZETopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial
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The Science of Shakespeare

A New Look at the Playwright's Universe

de Dan Falk ...

William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Shakespeare, who ... Leer más

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William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Shakespeare, who
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Sally Rooney

Perspectives and Approaches

de Barry Devine, María Amor Barros-del Río, Jennifer A. Slivka, Deirdre Flynn, Mary M. McGlynn, Colleen English, Cassidy Allen, Matthew J. Fee0, Katarzyna Bartoszynska1, Molly Ferguson2, Rachael Sealy Lynch3, John C. Kerrigan4, Melania Terrazas5, Kristy DeStefano6 ...

Series series Contemporary Irish Writers
Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy, politics, and the millennial condition. This new collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to offer fresh critical ... Leer más

$32.39 USD

Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy, politics, and the millennial condition. This new collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to offer fresh critical
... Leer más
The Waste Land

A Biography of a Poem

de Matthew Hollis ...

**A New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer, and Sunday Times Book of the Year“[An] impressive examination of artistic creation.”—Alex Clark, GuardianA riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.**Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for ... Leer más

$12.32 USD

**A New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer, and Sunday Times Book of the Year“[An] impressive examination of artistic creation.”—Alex Clark, GuardianA riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.**Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for
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Hamlet

de William Shakespeare ...

Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Hamlet—a tragedy of family, murder, ghosts, and revenge—featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading ... Leer más

$6.99 USD

The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Hamlet—a tragedy of family, murder, ghosts, and revenge—featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading
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Macbeth

de William Shakespeare ...

Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading editions of Shakespeare's plays. Used in high ... Leer más

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The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading editions of Shakespeare's plays. Used in high
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Romeo and Juliet

de William Shakespeare ...

Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Romeo and Juliet, the tragedy of star-crossed lovers, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading ... Leer más

$6.99 USD

The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Romeo and Juliet, the tragedy of star-crossed lovers, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading
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Much Ado About Nothing

Revised Edition

de William Shakespeare ...

Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry.Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-seller right up to date, analysing recent developments in criticism and the latest productions of this comedy. ... Leer más

$9.98 USD

Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry.Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-seller right up to date, analysing recent developments in criticism and the latest productions of this comedy.
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Black Shakespeare

Reading and Misreading Race

de Ian Smith ...

Race may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. This far-reaching study shows that significant parts of Shakespeare's texts have been elided, misconstrued or ... Leer más

$19.25 USD

Race may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. This far-reaching study shows that significant parts of Shakespeare's texts have been elided, misconstrued or
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The Greatest Literary Classics Of All Time

Enriched edition. 150 Books: Romeo and Juliet, Emma, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, Tom Sawyer, Faust, Notre Dame de Paris…

de Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Lewis Wallace, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen0, William Makepeace Thackeray1, P. B. Shelley2, Mary Shelley3, John Keats4, Charlotte Brontë5, Emily Brontë6, Anne Brontë7, George Eliot8, Charles Dickens9, Thomas Hardy0, Elizabeth von Arnim1, D. H. Lawrence2, Ann Ward Radcliffe3, Bram Stoker4, Arthur Conan Doyle5, Joseph Conrad6, Oscar Wilde7, Lewis Carroll8, Frances Hodgson Burnett9, C. S. Lewis0, George Weedon Grossmith1, H. G. Wells2, Willkie Collins3, G. K. Chesterton4, E. M. Forster5, T. S. Eliot6, James Joyce7, George Bernard Shaw8, W. B. Yeats9, Sir Walter Scott0, Robert Louis Stevenson1, Kenneth Grahame2, George MacDonald3, J. M. Barrie4, Mark Twain5, Jack London6, Herman Melville7, Nathaniel Hawthorne8, Louisa May Alcott9, Willa Cather0, Edith Wharton1, Kate Chopin2, Henry David Thoreau3, Walt Whitman4, Kahlil Gibran5, Harriet Beecher Stowe6, Frederick Douglass7, James Fenimore Cooper8, L. M. Montgomery9, Homer0, Plato1, Apuleius2, Marcus Aurelius3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe4, Herman Hesse5, Friedrich Nietzsche6, Jules Verne7, Marcel Proust8, Victor Hugo9, Gustave Flaubert0, Gaston Leroux1, Honoré de Balzac2, Stendhal3, Voltaire4, Charles Baudelaire5, Alexandre Dumas6, Emile Zola7, Henrik Ibsen8, Leo Tolstoy9, Fyodor Dostoyevsky0, Ivan Turgenev1, Anton Chekhov2, Nikolai Gogol3, Miguel de Cervantes4, Benito Pérez Galdós5, Pedro Calderon de la Barca6, Dante7, Giovanni Boccaccio8, Niccolò Machiavelli9, Rabindranath Tagore0, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee1, Kalidasa2, Válmíki3, Laozi4, Sun Tzu5, Confucius6, Cao Xueqin7, Princess Der Ling8, Inazo Nitobé9, Kakuzo Okakura00, Soseki Natsume01, Charlotte Perkins Gilman02, F. Scott Fitzgerald03, William Dean Howells04, Washington Irving05, L. Frank Baum06, Theodor Storm07, Juan Valera08, Rudyard Kipling09, Jayden Walsh12 ...

The 'Greatest Literary Classics of All Time' is a monumental anthology that encapsulates a diverse array of profound narratives, each sculpted by distinct literary styles and epoch-defining insights. Spanning genres from epic poetry to foundational philosophical treatises, this collection showcases seminal works that have each, in their own right, shaped the contours of world literature. From the ... Leer más

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The 'Greatest Literary Classics of All Time' is a monumental anthology that encapsulates a diverse array of profound narratives, each sculpted by distinct literary styles and epoch-defining insights. Spanning genres from epic poetry to foundational philosophical treatises, this collection showcases seminal works that have each, in their own right, shaped the contours of world literature. From the
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