Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his... Read more on amazon | Phaedrus by Plato Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is... Read more on amazon |
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![]() Oresteia by Aeschylus The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides. These three plays... Read more on amazon | Aristophanes: Clouds. Wasps. Peace by Aristophanes Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446-386 B.C.), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity. He wrote at least 40 plays, of which eleven have... Read more on amazon |
Ajax by Sophocles Translated by R. C.... Read more on amazon | Memoirs of an Egotist by Stendhal Memoirs of an Egotist, Stendhal’s fragmentary autobiographical work, is alert, wry, and perpetually self–questioning. Through a series of apparently random impressions of the... Read more on amazon |
The Odyssey by Homer With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over... Read more on amazon | ![]() Fables by Aesop Aesop is reputed to have been a slave on the island of Samos in the 6th century BC, and his audiences are said to have laughed at both his grotesque appearance and his stories.... Read more on amazon |
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