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The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

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Henry Murger and Henri Murger


As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped th…

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

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Unknowntranslated Byclements Markham and Anonymoustranslated Byclements Markham


A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid hom…

Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)

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Sophocles


Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy …

Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

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Euripides


The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of…

Audrey Craven

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May Sinclair


In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undes…

Drum-Taps

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Walt Whitman


Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response …

Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation)

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Euripides


Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the …

The Nō Plays of Japan

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Varioustranslated Byarthur Waley


Noh (Nō), or Nogaku—derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent"—is a major form of classical Japanese mu…

The Coast of Bohemia

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William Dean Howells


William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…

The Steel Flea

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Nikolai Leskov


An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…

Seven Against Thebes (Way Translation)

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Aeschylus


Seven against Thebes is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to …

Two Sides of a Question

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May Sinclair


Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a w…

The House of Dust: A Symphony

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Conrad Aiken


The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World …

Brand

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Henrik Ibsen


Inflamed by what he saw as his Norwegian homeland's shocking betrayal of Denmark after the Prussian invasion of Danish territory, Ibsen wrot…

If All These Young Men

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Florence Roma Muir Wilson


Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, "If All These Young Men" is a character study of a group of young 20-somethi…

The Cellar-House of Pervyse

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Mairi Chisholm


Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…

Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2)

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Dorothy Richardson


"Pointed Roofs" is the first volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson …

The Outcast

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For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood…

A Family of Noblemen

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…

The Combined Maze

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May Sinclair


Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises and to fighting “flabbiness” in his own life, body and so…

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