Slavná a nesmrtelná Shakespearova tragedie o lásce dvou milenců z nesvářených rodů Monteků a Kapuletů.
Burton Raffel Book order (chronological)
Burton Raffel is an acclaimed translator, poet, and teacher whose work focuses on bringing classic poetry to life for contemporary audiences. Raffel is known for his sensitive translation work, which captures the spirit and literary quality of the original pieces. Through his efforts, readers can rediscover the timeless beauty of these epic poems.
Beowulf Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
- 425 pages
- 15 hours of reading
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
- 500 pages
- 18 hours of reading
George P. Elliott, Bobbie Ann Mason, Blanche McCrary Boyd, Jayne Anne Phillips, Peter J. Taylor, Ann Beattie, Jean Stafford, Richard Ellman, Purdy James, Donald Barthelme, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth, Richard Yates, John Updike, Grace Paley, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Mark Helprin, Wright Morris, Robert Greenwood, Leonard Michaels, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Joyce Carol Oates, Layle Silbert, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Ivi Goodman, Walter Mosley Jr.
Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
- 688 pages
- 25 hours of reading
The best of American short fiction Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Edgar Allan Poe * Herman Melville * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Bret Harte * Bayard Taylor * Rose Terry Cooke * Ambrose Bierce * Hamlin Garland * Mary E. Wilkens Freeman * Henry James * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * Sarah Orne Jewett * Grace Elizabeth King * Harold Frederic * Kate Chopin * Stephen Crane * Edith Wharton * Mark Twain * Jack London * F. Hopkinson Smith * Zona Gale * O. Henry * Sherwood Anderson * Ernest Hemingway * John Dos Passos * Stephen Vincent Benet * Willa Cather * William Faulkner * James Thurber * F. Scott Fitzgerald * William Saroyan