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Tragoediae Aeschylus · 1777 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Greek language materials, Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Cyropaedia Xenophon · 1527 · ★ 3.3 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Greek literature, Greek language materials, Early works to 1800, Poetry with this book.

The Toy-Shop; a Dramatick Satire Robert Dodsley · 1700 · 41p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800, Drama with this book.

Aeschyli septem quae supersunt tragoediae Aeschylus · 1937 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Greek language materials, Drama with this book.

Moralia Plutarch · 1500 · ★ 4.0 · 15p · ≈ 30m · Challenging The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also timeless observations in their own right. Shares Ancient Ethics, Greek literature, Early works to 1800, Poetry

Aeschyli Tragoediae Aeschylus · 1809 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Introduction in English Shares Greek drama, Drama

Ten plays Euripides · 1960 · ★ 4.1 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Euripidis Fabulae Euripides · 1844 · 482p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares Greek language materials, Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Plays Aeschylus · 1828 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares Drama

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the… Shares Poetry

The complete plays of Sophocles Sophocles · 1967 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - AjaxTrachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From… Shares Greek drama, Drama

Euripide Euripides · 1884 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Oresteia Aeschylus · 1845 · ★ 4.0 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek… Shares Greek language materials, Greek drama, Poetry, Drama

Ami des enfans Arnaud Berquin · 1782 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Children's Friend Shares Conduct of life, Early works to 1800, Drama

Alcestis Euripides · 1818 · ★ 3.8 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies." "The introductory… Shares Greek drama, Poetry, Drama

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