Movements & Periods Books


Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $2.59 Like many other reviewers, I read this book because it is a requirement in many English classes....	Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds Best Price: $7.98 Professor West's translations here are the standard translations for those who know, which is to...	To the Lighthouse Best Price: $3.98 I almost put this book down after the first 100 pages. The writing was difficult to get into and...	The Histories (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.67 I found this translation eminently readable. While I agree that the use of endnotes rather than...	Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $1.70 Anyone who is a frequent reader of this blog knows of my aversion to classics. I don't...



The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $1.68 Adapted from the nightmarish short story from early 20th-century author Franz Kafka, Peter...	Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays Best Price: $16.15 I've been acting for ten years and got my first directing assignment. I know a lot about...	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.25 There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"...	The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $8.45 The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac ***1/2 Both uplifting and boring. Kerouac's Dharma Bums was...	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo Best Price: $3.25 For anyone who cares about the subject and yet is too lazy to read the original it is always a...



Dracula (Enriched Classics Series) Best Price: $2.99 While this is definitely a Should Read novel-- after all, the character of Dracula is firmly...	On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War Best Price: $8.74 The greatest of all Greek historians was the Athenian general Thucydides (455-400 B.C.E.). ...	Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.50 D.D.R. Owen, late professor emeritus of French in the University of St. Andrews, states of his...	Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Best Price: $5.99 This first person account of the aftermath of Columbus and the Spanish is an important read from...	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume E: The Victorian Age Best Price: $21.50 Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature ...

The Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey Best Price: $10.50 Lombardo's translations of Homer are brilliant, energetic, and fun to read. While other...	Poetics (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.94 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Poetry appeals to human passions and...	Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.98 Basically i bought this book for my english class, and comparing this book to other books the...	Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics) Best Price: $8.10 Four Plays by Aristophanes / 0-452-00717-8 This edition features wonderful translations of...	Welcome to the Monkey House Best Price: $7.78 Glen Williamson (Google him) has been performing two of these stories for years as a one-man...

On the Road: The Original Scroll Best Price: $5.19 OK, I tried to read this several times with no luck. It is quite possibly the most boring...	On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition Best Price: $7.25 In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its first printing, Viking Press has republished...	Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.61 "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" describes the experiences of a woman who, through no fault...	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.26 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a fourteenth century alliterative poem of unknown authorship....	Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Best Price: $4.94 I'm sure that the readers of this review are not so much concerned with purchasing...

The Meaning of Night: A Confession Best Price: $5.57 By volume, this book competes with 'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoevsky. By content, it fails...	The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.00 I am so glad I read this book. What a treat! The names even fit the characters. It was a...	Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) Best Price: $3.98 Book was shipped quickly and was in excellent condition. Exactly as it was promoted to be.	Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.00	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series) Best Price: $1.93 I have always loved Mark Twain since reading Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer as a kid. At one point I...

Pensees (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.15 I have read Pascal's Pensees 2 times now - and cannot but marvel at his depth and Truth. I have...	Montaigne: Essays Best Price: $4.95 In 1580, Michel de Montaigne dedicated this "honest book" to his family and friends. ...	Classics of Western Thought Series: The Ancient World, Volume I (Classics of Western Thought) Best Price: $75.74 Got this for a college course I took on the Classical World. I actually own Vol. I, II, and III....	The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume I (A,B,C): The Ancient World, The Medieval Era, and The Early Modern Period (2nd Edition) Best Price: $69.00 The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume 1 offers a fresh presentation of the...	Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $1.88 I love this book! Originally a textbook for a Mythology class, I have kept it and read it...

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $15.23 Jameson's book is, if the subject is somewhat redundant some 18 years after publication,...	The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) Best Price: $12.01 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10)...	The Praise of Folly and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $8.95 Erasmus conveys in his writings a deeply principled, heartfelt faith leavened with genuinely...	The Portable Machiavelli Best Price: $10.64 A useful compendium of Machiavelli's works that reveals a breadth of views not typically...	David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.87 Classic of the caliber of Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics). Dickens does a great...

Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.64 I'm a student of contemporary art, and I consider myself educated and well read, but I find even...	The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period Best Price: $41.72 In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British...	The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.94 "I believe that memory is responsible for nearly all these three-volume novels" ...	Unlocking Harry Potter: Five Keys for the Serious Reader Best Price: $11.55 This is not always an easy read and there's some hard thinking required to keep up with John...	Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $15.00 What's not to like about Montaigne? Everytime I pick through parts of his essays [and it does...

Becoming Jane Austen Best Price: $8.00 2003's "Becoming Jane Austen" is Jon Spence's highly readable biography of romance...	Sixteen Satires (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.34 Having recently finished Stephen Colbert's I am an American, this book hit me with a strange...	Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.79 This is an interesting novel, and a fascinating study of liberal attitudes on race, gender and...	The Italian Renaissance Reader Best Price: $8.88 The editors have little to add, and little has been added indeed, beyond the included works. ...	Classics of Western Thought Series: Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, Volume II (Classics of Western Thought) Best Price: $50.00 Originally edited by Thomas H. Greer, this series emanates from the Humanities Department at...

Broadview Anthology of British Literature Concise Volume A Best Price: $49.45 The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Edition provides an...	After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity Best Price: $40.00 Most Christian professionals have little understanding of what happened after the first half of...	The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.59 I had never heard much about 'The Mill on the Floss' before reading it, but I enjoyed other...	King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table (Puffin Classics) Best Price: $2.32	The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.00 Christopher Columbus in his own writings, translated though, what could be more exciting? Well,...

Big Sur Best Price: $7.91 "On the Road" gets all the attention. I stumbled through that novel, thought it was...	Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $5.41 I've kept Thoreau at arm's length over the years. I sensed his brilliance yet secretly accused...

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