The Decameron, Volume II

8 best books like The Decameron, Volume II (Giovanni Boccaccio): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Discourse on Method, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Pygmalion, Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers, The Anti-Christ, Jedermann. Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes, Star

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

Discourse on Method

Author	René Descartes
ISBN	0872204227

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the...

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Author	Aeschylus
ISBN	0140443339

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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...

Pygmalion

Author	George Bernard Shaw
ISBN	0486282228

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea,...

Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers

Author	Dav Pilkey
ISBN	0545175364

A world without UNDERPANTS?!!!

When we last saw our heroes, George and Harold, they had been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, postapocalyptic planet for all eternity. But why, you might ask, didn't the amazing Captain Underpants save the boys from this frightening...

The Anti-Christ

Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN	1421270536

Monumento de escándalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre póstuma del inquietante pensamiento y de la palabra pasional y devastadora de Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). El Anticristo, como toda la obra filosófica del insigne alemán, ha sido interpretado de muy diversos...

Jedermann. Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes

Author	Hugo von Hofmannsthal
ISBN	3150180376

Jedermann. Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes ist ein Theaterstück von Hugo von Hofmannsthal, das am 1. Dezember 1911 im Berliner Zirkus Schumann unter der Regie von Max Reinhardt uraufgeführt wurde. Seit 1920 wird das Stück jedes Jahr bei den Salzburger Festspielen aufgeführt, die Hofmannsthal...

Star

Author	Yukio Mishima
ISBN	0811228428

All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms...