Literature

Macbeth

By William Shakespeare

214 pages

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One of Shakespeare's great tragedies, Macbeth follows the gruesome story of Macbeth who is told by three witches that he will be king. Sure enough, their prophesy is fulfilled, but the price of power is great and, in this case, rather bloody.

The actual play ends on page 97. What follows are some essays and notes on the play itself. There are footnotes on the bottom of each page that give helpful notes and definitions that make Shakespeare's language easier to understand.

Danielle's Quick Review: Macbeth is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. Call me morbid, but sometimes I just love the tragedies. What I like about this story is that I find it very thought provoking. It's a great one for psychoanalytical fans. If that's not your thing, you should still read it just for the blood and gore and the bad guy getting his just desserts. It's a story packed with adventure, magic, death, war, and classic moments and lines. "Out damned spot!"

Antony and CleopatraBy William Shakespeare

272 pages
Price: $2.50

Another of Shakespeare's tragedies, this story follows the relationship between Mark Antony and Cleopatra from the Parthian War up to Cleopatra's suicide.

The actual play ends on page 147. What follows are some essays and notes on the play itself. There are footnotes on the bottom of each page that give helpful notes and definitions that make Shakespeare's language easier to understand. There are some passages that have been marked.

King Lear
By William Shakespeare

275 pages

Price: $2.50

Another one of Shakespeare's tragedies, King Lear is a story based on the legend of Leir of Britain. In the play, King Lear goes mad after "wrongly distributing his estate on the strength of flattery."

The actual play ends on page 145. What follows are some essays and notes on the play itself. There are footnotes on the bottom of each page that give helpful notes and definitions that make Shakespeare's language easier to understand.

Go Down, Moses
By William Faulkner
365 pages
List Price: $10.00
My Price: $5.00

First Paragraph:
Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike', past seventy and nearer eighty than he ever corroborated any more, a widower now and uncle to half a county and father to no one

The Back Cover:
Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner's mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.

Villette
By Charlotte Bronte
463 Pages
My Price: $3.00

First Paragraph:
My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Her husband's family had been residents there for generations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplace - Bretton of Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor had been a personage of sufficient importance to leave his name to his neighbourhood, I know not.

Back Cover:
Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villete is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.

Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman's right to love and be loved.