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“ellen mclaughlin”

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  • The Greek Plays 2

    Ajax in Iraq, Kissing the Floor, Penelope, Mercury’s Footpath, and The Oresteia

    by Ellen McLaughlin ...
    “If art is a public service, then McLaughlin has served her public well.” —The Hollywood ReporterEllen McLaughlin returns with a new collection of adaptations and modern reimaginings of classic Greek tragedies. Drawing on works by Sophocles, Homer, Aeschylus, and more, these plays breathe fresh life into timeless questions and conflicts that still feel startlingly relevant today: Can civilization ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Greek Plays

    by Ellen McLaughlin ...
    From The Persians"Defeat is impossibleDefeat is unthinkableWe have always been the favorites of fate.Fortune has cupped usIn her golden palms.It has only been a matterOf choosing our desire. Which fruitTo pick from the nodding tree."This chilling passage is from Ellen McLaughlin’s new adaptation of The Persians by Aeschylus, the earliest surviving play in Western literature, an elegy for a fallen ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    by Edna O'Brien ...
    Two plays by the acclaimed Irish author: an adaption of Euripides and an "emotionally bruising drama" of three women obsessed with the same man ( The New York Times).TriptychWith searing acuity, O'Brien presents the story of three women—a mistress, a wife, and a daughter—who are all helplessly drawn to Henry: their lover, husband, and father. While Henry himself never appears, his specter is never ... Read more

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  • Hesiod: Works And Days

    by Hugh G. Evelyn-White ...
    Hesiod: Works And Daystranslated by Hugh G. Evelyn-WhiteHesiod was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. His writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, archaic Greek astronomy and ancient timekeeping. Of the many works attributed to Hesiod, three survive complete and many more in fragmentary state. They include Alexandrian Papyri, some ... Read more

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  • Poems About Life and Shit

    by Adam Francis Smith ...
    Poems About Life and Shit is just what it appears to be. It is a collection of poems that tell it like it is. Life is funny, life is sad, life is hard and life is a real trip. Life is made up of so many things from relationships with others, mysterious circumstances, the beauty of nature and of course, death. We are all in this thing together and it's going to end the same way for all of us, but ... Read more

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  • In The Seven Woods

    by William Butler Yeats ...
    I have heard the pigeons of the Seven WoodsMake their faint thunder, and the garden beesHum in the lime tree flowers; and put awayThe unavailing outcries and the old bitternessThat empty the heart. I have forgot awhileTara uprooted, and new commonnessUpon the throne and crying about the streetsAnd hanging its paper flowers from post to post,Because it is alone of all things happy. ... Read more

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  • Girl on an Altar

    by Marina Carr ...
    A sinister night.Evil and edge in the air.What are they celebrating?Clytemnestra's world is torn apart when Agamemnon sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war. Ten years later, the couple are reunited. What follows is a dangerous battle fuelled by love, grief and power.Marina Carr's adaptation of the infamous Greek myth brings Clytemnestra's story to the fore and asks if it is possible to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hercules and the Pooper-Scooper Peril

    by Blake Hoena ...
    Illustrated by Ivica Stevanovic ...
    Series series Michael Dahl Presents: Gross Gods
    The mighty Hercules takes on twelve disgusting feats -- including scooping massive mountains of manure -- in this epically gross Greek myth retelling! Will the demigod rise to the awful occasion, or will he totally poop out? With wacky illustrations, true-to-tale back matter, and introductions by award-winning author Michael Dahl himself, THE GROSS GREEK GODS series will have mythology lovers and ... Read more

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  • Lines from Life

    Poetry for Those Whose Own Journey Follows a Crooked Path

    by Peter Overduin ...
    Lines from Life presents a sensitive and touching collection of thoughts, dreams, and wishes by poet Peter Overduin. He offers a realistic view of lifes disappointments and failures, hoping to provide companionship and sympathy to those on journeys like his ownboth in times where there is only darkness and in those that hold a sweeter melancholy and even hope.From lost love to hopes and dreams, he ... Read more

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  • The Oresteia

    by Aeschylus, Mr Rory Mullarkey ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    He who learns must suffer.Before setting out for the Trojan War, King Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Many years later, when Agamemnon returns to his palace, his adulterous Queen Clytemnestra takes her revenge by brutally murdering him and installing her lover on the throne. How will the gods judge Orestes, their estranged son, who must avenge his father's death by murdering his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • 100 Love Sonnets

    by Anthony Maulucci ...
    Out of the crucible of divorce comes a book about love . . . In this exciting collection of lyrical, sensual, and elegant poems, A. S. Maulucci offers romantic readers a fresh take on the sonnet, the time-honored and most elevated form for expressing the mysterious emotion we call love. Two poets have created sonnets which have proved a delight and an inspiration to many authors. The great Italian ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Princess Poems: A Whimsical Romance Told Through Poetry

    by Brandon Church ...
    A charming tale in verse of a poor farm girl who craves adventure, and a lonely young prince who wants to get away. Fate brings them together, but the world wants to keep them apart. Can a prince and a peasant find love? Can she ever be his princess? ... Read more

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