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  • On History

    Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)

    by Jules Michelet, Flora Kimmich (translator), Lionel Gossman (translator), Edward K. Kaplan (translator) ...
    Series Book 1 - Open Book Classics
    Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. Kaplan in his Michelet’s Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volume. ... Read more

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  • Love and Intrigue

    by Flora Kimmich, Flora Kimmich, Friedrich Schiller, Roger Paulin ...
    Series series Open Book Classics
    Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fraught ... Read more

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  • Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa

    by Flora Kimmich (Translator), Friedrich Schiller (author), John Guthrie (editor) ...
    Series Book 2 - Open Book Classics
    Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on a rebellion in sixteenth century Italy, its title: The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa. A Republican Tragedy. At the head of the conspiracy stood Gian Luigi de’ Fieschi (1524-1547), Schiller’s Count Fiesco, a clever, courageous and charismatic figure, an epicurean and unhesitant ... Read more

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  • Don Carlos Infante of Spain

    A Dramatic Poem

    by Flora Kimmich, Friedrich Schiller ...
    Series Book 9 - Open Book Classics
    Schiller’s Don Carlos, written ten years before his great Wallenstein trilogy, testifies to the young playwright’s growing power. First performed in 1787, it stands at the culmination of Schiller’s formative development as a dramatist and is the first play written in his characteristic iambic pentameter. Don Carlos plunges the audience into the dangerous political and personal struggles that ... Read more

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  • Wallenstein

    A Dramatic Poem

    by Friedrich Schiller, Roger Paulin, Flora Kimmich ...
    Series Book 5 - Open Book Classics
    By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein’s Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller’s collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Across the ... Read more

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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...
    Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    **"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin Classic**The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who ... Read more

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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra ...
    Translated by Tom Lathrop ...
    Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature.In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that characterizes Cervantes’ ... Read more

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  • Genesis

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Series Book 1 - Memory of Fire
    "An epic work of literary creation . . . There could be no greater vindication of the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America than Memory of Fire ." — The Washington PostEduardo Galeano's monumental three-volume retelling of the history of the New World begins with Genesis, a vast chain of legends sweeping from the birth of creation to the era of savage colonialism. Through lyrical prose ... Read more

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  • For a Queen's Love

    The Stories of the Royal Wives of Philip II

    by Jean Plaidy ...
    Series Book 10 - A Novel of the Tudors
    Power-hungry monarch, cold-blooded murderer, obsessive monster—who could love such a man?Set against the glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, the Spain of the dreaded Inquisition, and the tortured England of Bloody Mary, For a Queen’s Love is the story of Philip II of Spain—and of the women who loved him as a husband and father.Philip was a dark and troubled man, who, like many royals, ... Read more

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  • Three Major Plays

    by Lope de Vega, Gwynne Edwards ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, ... Read more

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  • Madrid

    A Traveller's Reader

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Series series Traveller's Reader
    The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world had seen since the fall of Rome, the Spanish Empire, is brought to life in vivid diaries, letters, ... Read more

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