By Susanna Braund

Lucan's epic poem, Civil battle, portrays the stark, darkish horror of the years forty nine via forty eight BCE, the bleak truth of Romans struggling with Romans, of Julius Caesar vs. Pompey the nice. The advent to this quantity situates Lucan as a poet heavily hooked up with the Stoics at Rome, operating throughout the reign of the emperor Nero, within the style inherited from Virgil. the choices are meant for 3rd- and fourth-year university curricula, and contain Lucan's research of the reasons of the civil conflict, depictions of his protagonists Caesar and Pompey at key moments-Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, the assassination of Pompey as he arrives in Egypt looking shelter, Cato's funeral oration for Pompey, Caesar's stopover at to the positioning of Troy-as good as hugely atmospheric passages: Pompey's imaginative and prescient of his useless spouse, Julia; and the necromancy played by way of the witch Erichtho for Pompey's son. Notes to the passages light up Lucan's angle in the direction of his material-his reluctance to take on the subject of civil struggle, his advanced dating with Virgil's Aeneid, and his passionate involvement within the occasions during the rhetorical gadget of apostrophe, while he turns out to go into the poem as a personality himself. specified good points * advent that situates Lucan in his literary, historic, and ideological context * 620 traces of Latin textual content from Lucan's Civil conflict, together with: 1.1-45, 67-157, 183-227, 486-504; 3.8-35; 399-445; 6.624-53; 7.617-37; 7.647-82, 728-46, 760-811; 8.542-636, 663-88; 9.190-217; 9.961-99 * Notes on the again * Map of the jap Mediterranean in Caesar's day * Bibliography * complete Vocabulary For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the very best quality Latin and historical Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology , Bolchazy-Carducci's titles support readers find out about historic Rome and Greece; the Latin and historical Greek languages are alive and good with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar . We additionally characteristic a line of up to date jap eu and WWII books. the various parts we put up in comprise: decisions From The Aeneid Latin Grammar & Pronunciation Greek Grammar & Pronunciation Texts aiding Wheelock's Latin Classical writer workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero Vocabulary playing cards For AP decisions: Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace Greek Mythology Greek Lexicon Slovak tradition And History

By Rohinton Mistry

By David Lodge

A riveting novel in regards to the awesome life-and many loves-of writer H. G. Wells.

H. G. Wells, writer of The Time laptop and struggle of the Worlds, used to be one of many 20th century's so much prophetic and artistic writers, a guy who immersed himself in socialist politics and loose love, whose meteoric upward thrust to status introduced him into touch with crucial literary, highbrow, and political figures of his time, yet who in later years felt more and more overlooked and disenchanted in his personal utopian visions. Novelist and critic David inn has taken the compelling precise tale of Wells's existence and reworked it right into a witty and deeply relocating narrative a couple of interesting but incorrect man.

Wells had sexual kinfolk with innumerable ladies in his lifetime, yet in 1944, as he unearths himself demise, he returns to the thoughts of a decide on crew of other halves and mistresses, together with the bright younger pupil Amber Reeves and the talented author Rebecca West. As he studies his expert, political, and romantic successes and screw ups, it truly is via his stories of those ladies that he involves comprehend himself. Eloquent, horny, and gentle, the unconventional is an artfully composed portrait of Wells's astounding existence, with brilliant glimpses of its turbulent old historical past, by way of certainly one of England's most beneficial and renowned writers.

By João Guimarães Rosa

By Monique Truong

The publication of Salt serves up a unconditionally unique tackle Paris within the Nineteen Thirties in the course of the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook dinner hired by way of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing his recognized mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen in their rue de Fleurus domestic, Binh observes their household entanglements whereas looking his personal position on this planet. In a enchanting story of craving and betrayal, Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the darkish nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. She takes us again to Binh's younger servitude in Saigon less than colonial rule, to his lifestyles as a galley hand at sea, to his short, fateful encounters in Paris with Paul Robeson and the younger Ho Chi Minh.

By Vladimir Nabokov

By Catherine Keane

In his 16 verse Satires, Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures linked to social feedback and mockery. He uses conventional familiar parts reminiscent of the first-person speaker, ethical diatribe, narrative, and literary allusion to create this new satiric preoccupation and subject matter. Juvenal defines the satirist determine as an emotional agent who dramatizes his personal reaction to human vices and faults, and he in flip goals to have interaction different people's emotions. Over the process his occupation, he adopts a sequence of rhetorical personae that symbolize a spectrum of satiric feelings, encouraging his viewers to examine satire's right emotional mode and serve as. Juvenal first bargains his signature indignatio with its linked pleasures and discomforts, then attempts on subtler personae that recommend dry detachment, callous entertainment, nervousness, and different affective states.
As Keane exhibits, the satiric feelings aren't purely present in the author's rhetorical performances, yet also they are a massive a part of the human farrago that the Satires purport to regard. Juvenal's poems discover the dynamic operation of feelings in society, drawing on diversified historic literary, rhetorical, and philosophical resources. every one poem uniquely engages with diverse texts and ideas to bare the unsettling powers of its emotional mode. Keane additionally analyzes the "emotional plot" of every ebook of Satires and the structural good judgment of the whole sequence with its wide selection of topics and settings. From his well-known indignant tirades to his extra confusing later meditations, Juvenal demonstrates an everlasting curiosity within the courting among emotions and ethical judgment.

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Illustrated variation. to be had for the 1st time in an variation with complete color photographs, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's vintage tale, The Little Prince, cherished via readers of every age, involves lifestyles in a layout excellent for teenager readers. Antoine De Saint-Exupery used to be born in 1900 in Lyon. In 1921, he started his education as a pilot through 1926, he had turned one of many pioneers of overseas postal flight. He launched into a record-breaking try to fly from Paris to Saigon. Nineteen hours into the flight, his aircraft crashed within the Sahara desolate tract. He survived the crash yet spent 3 days struggling with dehydration, restricted nutrition and hallucinations. at the fourth day, the used to be rescued. partly, this adventure was once the muse for 'The Little Prince'. He endured to fly till international warfare II, within which he took self-imposed exile. He disappeared over the Mediterranean on his final assigned reconnaissance venture in July 1944, and is thought to have died at the moment. "I'm completely satisfied i used to be requested to be the ambassador for this ebook. i think you could locate that whatever of the starry magic of this tale remains with you, because it has with me." — Gregory Maguire "A stunning story...which covers a poetic, craving philosophy—not this type of delusion that may be tacked down well at its 4 corners yet really reflections on what are actual issues of consequence." — long island occasions e-book assessment firstly look, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 vintage The Little Prince—with its winsome illustrations of a boy prince and his tiny planet—appears to be a children's fairy story. It doesn't take lengthy, in spite of the fact that, to find that it speaks to readers of every age. This pocket-sized variation, ideal for teenagers, positive aspects Saint-Exupéry's unique full-color illustrations and the unabridged textual content, a reader's consultant, and a creation by way of Gregory Maguire. Rediscover—or share—the magic! This identify has been chosen as a standard center textual content Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Stories).

By Hazel E. Barnes

A scholarly, unique research of the literary paintings, the philosophical rules, and the psychologies of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir.

By Henri Barbusse

Pour les hommes du 231e régiment d'infanterie, les différences d'âge et de sociale n'importent plus. Tous sont venus s'enterrer dans les tranchées boueuses de Crouy, sous l. a. pluie et le feu de los angeles mitraille allemande. Leur seule certitude face aux armées ennemies : "I'faut t'nir". Barbusse fut l'un des leurs. Tiré de ses carnets de guerre, ce roman, prix Goncourt 1916, révéla à ceux de l'arrière le quotidien des poilus : leur braveness, leur camaraderie, leur argot, mais aussi los angeles saleté, l'attente et l'ennui. Cette guerre, l'état-major, le gouvernement et los angeles presse patriotique los angeles censurent. Il faudra un roman comme Le feu pour en dire toute l. a. barbarie mécanique, mais aussi l'espoir : celui de s'en sortir vivant.