Unabridged Dover (1991) republication of "Oedipus Tyrannus" from The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse Dramatic & Lyric by Sir George Young, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, 1906. Explanatory footnotes. 64pp. Considered by many the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies, Oedipus Rex is Sophocles' finest play and a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Aristotle considered it a masterpiece of dramatic construction and refers to it frequently in the Poetics.
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Digging to America: a novel
Two families arrive at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport in August 1997 to claim the Korean infants they have adopted. Strangers until that evening, they are destined to begin a friendship that will span their adoptive daughters' childhoods. Bitsy and Brad Donaldson are the quintessential middle-class, white American couple. Sami and Ziba Yazdan are Iranian Americans.
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Herbert Wells - The War Of The Worlds
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by a heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilisation is under threat.
Ian Rankin - The Black Book It all happened because John Rebus was in his favorite Edinburgh massage parlour reading the Bible... So opens the latest Rebus mystery and within a few pages the hapless Rebus has lost a lover, found an unwanted brother, been reacquaintedwith a dangerous ghost from the past, and witnessed the black comedy of life in a blood soaked Edinburgh butcher's shop. Or as Rebus puts it, 'just one of those weeks'.
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A Changed Man and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy
A dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press collected together. They had pursued their rounds for many years without meeting with any incident of an unusual kind, but to-night, according to the assertions of several, there prevailed, to begin with, an exceptionally solemn and thoughtful mood among two or three of the oldest in the band, as if they were thinking they might be joined by the phantoms of dead friends who had been of their number in earlier years, and now were mute in the churchyard under flattening mounds.
