Masterpieces of World LiteratureFrank Northen Magill Philosophy and fantasy, plays and poems, essays and epics -- 270 literary classics that range from The Divine Comedy and Death Comes for the Archbishop to The Aeneid and The Grapes of Wrath are summarized and analyzed in this essential reference. |
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... mother and stepfather on the one hand , and her love for her murdered father and exiled brother on the other . The plot revolves around the attempts of Electra - who has been forced to marry a farmer so that she will have no power — to ...
... mother and stepfather on the one hand , and her love for her murdered father and exiled brother on the other . The plot revolves around the attempts of Electra - who has been forced to marry a farmer so that she will have no power — to ...
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... Mother . She accompanies her husband into exile and is abducted by Ravan . Although she manages to remain faithful to Rama during her captivity , rumors of unfaith- fulness are spread abroad and believed by her husband and the people ...
... Mother . She accompanies her husband into exile and is abducted by Ravan . Although she manages to remain faithful to Rama during her captivity , rumors of unfaith- fulness are spread abroad and believed by her husband and the people ...
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... mother in the domestic bat- tle . Morel becomes enraged and disappointed by the loss of his son and wife and withdraws into self - pity and alcohol . Bereft of his father's influence , Paul's life becomes dominated by his mother ...
... mother in the domestic bat- tle . Morel becomes enraged and disappointed by the loss of his son and wife and withdraws into self - pity and alcohol . Bereft of his father's influence , Paul's life becomes dominated by his mother ...
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Absalom AbsalomWilliam Faulkner | 1 |
Adventures of Tom Sawyer TheMark Twain | 9 |
Age of Reason TheThomas Paine | 17 |
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