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W. W. Norton & Company (1987), Edition: 5th, Trade Paperback, 2052 pages
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A library of Western literature, featuring complete works, lyric poems, and short prose writings from the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, and the twentieth century; with introductory comments for each section, maps, timelines, and a pronouncing glossary.
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Literature from the Ancient World, Middle Ages and Renaissance Periods, chosen with care to be an accurate sampling of what was best, if not best known. A short course for one who can't apply his entire life to the study of great literature, or just to whet one's appetite.
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“Oedipus Tyrannus” and “Antigone” by Sophocles in World Masterpieces. Vol. I : Literature of Western Culture through the Renaissance. 3d ed. Norton, 1973. This was the second assignment for Dipso, the great books discussion group I am in, and they were much easier to read than Plato’s
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2052 p.; 8.2 inches
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0393954323 / 9780393954326
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masterpieces of the ancient world:
'the old testament', homer, 'the iliad', 'the odyssey', aeschylus, 'the oresteia', 'agamemnon', 'the libration bearers', 'the eumenides'
sophocles, 'oedipus the king', 'antigone', euripides, 'medea', aristophanes, 'lysistrata', plato, 'the apology', 'phadeo'
aristotle, 'poetics', virgil, 'the aeneid', ovid, 'metamorphoses', the new testament, petronius, 'the satyricon', st. augustine, 'confessions'
masterpieces of the middle ages:
marie de france, dante alighieri, 'the divine comedy', 'inferno', 'purgatorio', 'paradiso', giovanni boccaccio, 'the decameron'
'sir gwain and the green knight', geoffrey chaucer, 'the canterbury tales', 'everyman'
masterpieces of the renaissance: francis petrarch, desiderius erasmus, 'in praise of folly', baldesar castiglione, 'the book of the courtier'
niccolo machiavelli, 'the prince', francois rabelais, 'gargantua and pantagruel', michel de montaigne, 'essays'
miguel de cervantes, 'don quixote', christopher marlowe, 'doctor faustus', william shakespeare, 'hamlet', john donne, john milton, 'paradise lost'
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masterpieces of the ancient world:
'the old testament', homer, 'the iliad', 'the odyssey', aeschylus, 'the oresteia', 'agamemnon', 'the libration bearers', 'the eumenides'
sophocles, 'oedipus the king', 'antigone', euripides, 'medea', aristophanes, 'lysistrata', plato, 'the apology', 'phadeo'
aristotle, 'poetics', virgil, 'the aeneid', ovid, 'metamorphoses', the new testament, petronius, 'the satyricon', st. augustine, 'confessions'
masterpieces of the middle ages:
marie de france, dante alighieri, 'the divine comedy', 'inferno', 'purgatorio', 'paradiso', giovanni boccaccio, 'the decameron'
'sir gwain and the green knight', geoffrey chaucer, 'the canterbury tales', 'everyman'
masterpieces of the renaissance: francis petrarch, desiderius erasmus, 'in praise of folly', baldesar castiglione, 'the book of the courtier'
niccolo machiavelli, 'the prince', francois rabelais, 'gargantua and pantagruel', michel de montaigne, 'essays'
miguel de cervantes, 'don quixote', christopher marlowe, 'doctor faustus', william shakespeare, 'hamlet', john donne, john milton, 'paradise lost'
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