William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0671669168

When I was young and naive, I loved Troilus and Cressida for its brave cynicism, but now that I am older--and my outlook is bleaker--I appreciate it for its realism and compassion. Shakespeare shows us a world in which lovers yearn to be true and warriors strive to be brave, but both inevitably fail,...

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William Shakespeare

After the exotic eroticism of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare returned to Rome for one of his final tragedies, and the change could not have been more dramatic. Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's harshest and most challenging studies of power, politics and masculinity, based around the life of...

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0543896722

Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North American wilderness, the story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in nineteenth-century fiction—James Durie, Master of Ballantrae. The Master is about his infective...

Author	Heldris de Cornualles
ISBN	0870135430

This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.
     The Roman de Silence, an Arthurian romance of the...

Author	Felicia Kingsley
ISBN	8822713435

Allegra Hill è brillante, onesta e altruista. Ma anche un’eterna seconda. Fin dagli anni della scuola c’è sempre qualcuno che la precede. Sempre. E senza dimenticarsi di umiliarla anche un po’. Chi è costei? Ma la classica stronza! Quella di Allegra si chiama Sparkle Jones. Non solo la vita...