| Description |
xx, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: Cambridge, UK : Icon, 2007, under title: The great books: from The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe's Faust : a journey through 2,500 years of the West's classic literature. |
| Contents |
Homer -- The Iliad -- The Odyssey Greek tragedy. Aeschylus's Oresteia: Agamemnon ; Sophocles' Theban plays: Antigone ; Euripides: the Baccbae -- Plato and the death of Socrates -- Virgil and The Aeneid -- Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Saint Augustine's Confessions -- Dante: the divine comedy. Inferno ; Purgatorio ; Paradiso ; Dante: summing up -- Chaucer: The Canterbury tales -- Shakespeare. Henry V ; Hamlet ; The Tempest -- Cervantes: Don Quixote -- Milton: Paradise lost -- Pascal: Pensees -- Racine: Phédre -- Goethe: Faust. Faust, part one ; Faust, part two. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-336) and index. |
| Subject |
Best books.
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Literature.
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Classical literature.
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| ISBN |
9781933859781 |
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1933859784 |
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