The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

8 best books like The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Mary Lefkowitz): Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, Medea, The Driver's Seat, The Bacchae, The Complete Novels, Six Tragedies, El cementerio marino

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Author	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN	0486434141

If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry...

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Author

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable...

Medea

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0486275485

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea. Having married Medea and fathered her two children, Jason abandons her for a more favorable...

The Driver's Seat

Author	Muriel Spark
ISBN	0141188340

Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to...

The Bacchae

Author	Euripides
ISBN	1854594117

Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.

“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"


- The Young...

The Complete Novels

Author	Flann O'Brien
ISBN	0307267490

Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.

O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant...

Six Tragedies

Author	Seneca
ISBN	0192807064

Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain, oppressive, and violent times,...

El cementerio marino

Author	Paul Valéry
ISBN	8420672742

Fruto de un largo periodo de introspección y de madura reflexión, pocas obras líricas han alcanzado la repercusión e influencia de El cementerio marino, que tras su publicación en 1920 no tardó en convertirse en uno de los puntos de referencia obligados de la literatura del siglo XX.

Esta...