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BY THE SWORD
Written by by Richard Cohen
By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting—a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt.
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PREHISTORY
Written by Colin Renfrew
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records.
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THE HELLENISTIC AGE
Written by Peter Green
The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity's great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman.
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LES MISÉRABLES
Written by Victor Hugo
Translated by Julie Rose
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo's tour de force, Les Misérables, is revealed in its full unabridged glory.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Alternately lighthearted and savage, innocent and erotic, filled with love, mischief, and folly, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the perfect Elizabethan romantic comedy.
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Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
An immortal tale of a vengeful Danish prince quite possibly driven to madness, Hamlet, Shakespeare's most widely performed play, is filled with startling insight into humankind's unconscious desires.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Widely considered Shakespeare's most intellectually challenging comedy, Love's Labour's Lost nevertheless offers a feast of broad, farcical humor, plot twists, Elizabethan cultural allusions, and irrepressibly clever turns-of-phrase.
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Richard III
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
The dramatic concluding months of The Wars of the Roses provide the setting for Shakespeare's incomparable saga of power and intrigue.
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The Tempest
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes.
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by Peter Matthiessen
"Shadow Country is altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature. —The New York Review of Books
Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone—was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. In Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision.
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Introduction by Jack Zipes
This Modern Library edition of the first of L. M. Montgomery's beloved and immensely popular Avonlea novels features the restored original text and an Introduction by the noted children's literature scholar Jack Zipes."
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