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For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie`s life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he`s enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a...

The tales told be Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of `Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp` and `Sinbad the Sailor` to the farcical `Young Woman and her Five Lovers` and the social criticism of...

The plays in this volume, each written a decade apart, demonstrate different sides of Henrik Ibsen` genius, but all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breaking down of convention. A Doll?s House (1879) portrays a woman questioning her duty to her husband and seeking to escape from the stifling confines of her marriage ? a theme...

Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband`s gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled...

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw?s feminist views. In Shaw?s hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the...

"Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include "Bartleby," "The Piazza," "The Encantadas," "The Bell-Tower," "Benito Cereno," "The Paradise of Bachelors," and "The Tartarus of Maids."...