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Author
Publisher
Phillips, Sampson and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe continued to work as a professional writer throughout her life. A tale of greed, betrayal, and rebellion, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp displays her impressive imaginative range and admirable moral outlook while illuminating aspects of early American...
282) Le Cid
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Le Cid est une tragédie écrite par Pierre Corneille en 1636. Il raconte l'histoire de Rodrigue, surnommé le Cid, qui tombe amoureux de Chimène, la fille du gouverneur de Castille, alors qu'il est promis à une autre femme. Quand son père est injustement accusé d'un crime et tué par le gouverneur, Rodrigue est contraint de prendre les armes contre lui. Il remporte une victoire éclatante, mais doit affronter les conséquences de ses actions...
283) The Clouds
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Clouds is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised between 420-417 BC and thereafter it was circulated in manuscript form. No copy of the original production survives, and scholarly analysis indicates that...
Author
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Grey Wig" is a 1923 collection of short stories by British author Israel Zangwill (1864—1926). They include: "The Grey Wig", "Chassé-Croisé", "The Woman Beater", "The Eternal Feminine", "The Silent Sisters", "The Big Bow Mystery", "Merely Mary Ann", "The Serio-Comic Governess", etc. Israel Zangwill was a leading figure in cultural Zionism during the 19th century, as well as close friend of father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl....
285) Saint Joan
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The great Irish playwright's impassioned dramatization of the life and trial of Joan of Arc.
Three years after Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920, George Bernard Shaw brought to the stage a more complex and human portrayal of the fifteenth-century French martyr, creating one of the theater's most memorable and enduring female roles. Already renowned for plays such as Pygmalion, The Arms and the Man, and Major Barbara, Shaw presented Saint Joan as...
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