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Aris & Phillips

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Greek Orators VI: Apollodorus Against Nearia
with an introduction, translation and commentary by C. Carey.
Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are
elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest
form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for
delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies
enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best
of them have great vitality. There is no crude, primitive stage
of development: the earliest speeches are ...
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Caesar: Civil War I and II
edited with a translation and commentary by J. M. Carter
Julius Caesar's own narrative of the opening year of the Civil
War between himself and Pompey is the only surviving account from
the classical world of such a conflict written by one of the
principals. The apparent clarity of the narrative, and the
limpidity and economy of Caesar's style, in fact conceal a
tendentious presentation of both his own and his opponent's
motives, actions and competence. The influence of ...
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Caesar: Civil War III
edited with a translation and commentary by J A Carter
In the third and final book which he wrote about his campaigns in the Civil War, Caesar tells the story of his fight with Pompey in 48 B.C. which ended in the rout of the latter at Pharsalus, perhaps Caesar's most notable military victory. The book ends with Caesar pursuing Pompey to Egypt. Here began Caesar's celebrated affair with Cleopatra. At this point the book, and the whole work, ends abruptly.With this volume the author's edition and ...
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Duchess's Diary
by Robin Chapman
Maria Isabel, Duchess of Caparosso, falls in love with cervantes, author of Don Quixote, but believes he has misrepresented her character in his work. Consumed by the need to clear her name, her quest for truth and her progress back into the world with hope restored, is a love story that reaffirms the reader's faith in humanity. 120p, (Aris & Phillips, 2004)
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Pasamonte's Life
by Robin Chapman
When DonQuixote frees a gang of convicted criminals, he encounters Ginés de Pasamonte. Pasamonte has written his authobiography, but left it in pawn to buy good treatment on the galleys on which he serves. Once set free, Pasamonte encourages his fellow convicts to maltreat Don Quixote and his squire, Sanch Panza - even stealing Sancho's Sadly, neither Cervantes nor Pasamonte ever found time to publish this life. This, finally, is the ...
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Sancho's Golden Age
by Robin Chapman
After Don Quixote's death, his squire, Sancho Panza, has been unable to settle back into his former life. He longs for more romance than reality can supply. He confides in the local barber and together they conspire to escape from their village and create and ideal pastoral life for themselves up in the hills. Once there they will live like classical sheperds in Arcadia writing sonnets, enjoying milk and honey, and wooing perfect sheperdesses. ...
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Abdelhafidh al-Mansur's On Hunting
translated by Sir Terence Clark and Muawiya Derhalli
The original manuscript of On Hunting was presented to the Hafsid Sultan of North Africa al-Mustansir bi-Allah, known as al-Mansur, in 1247. He was a passionate hunter with Saluqis, falcons and other predators on his estate at Bizerte. The complete book apparently dealt with all aspects of hunting and falconry but only Parts VII and VIII of Volume IV of the original seven volumes remains, which Abdulhafedh Mansur of Tunis University published as ...
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: The Holding (La Barraca)~

^BVicente Blasco Ibáñez: The Holding (La Barraca) ~
Translated by Lester Clark and Eric Farrington Birchall with
Introduction and Notes by Patricia McDermott~
This passionate and moving story of social injustice, violence
and revenge, set in the Valencian huerta, has become the classic
text of Spanish regional realism. Blasco Ibáñez, the 'Spanish
Zola', dramatically confronts one of the great ...
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Euripides: Hecuba
With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by C. Collard
Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation. Then Hecuba learns of her sons' treacherous murder by a former ally; out of her terrible loss comes determination for revenge, which she claims as a right but how just is her horrific cruelty? How credible ...
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Euripides: Selected Fragments, Vol. 1
edited with introductions, translations and commentaries by C. Collard, M. Cropp and K. H. Lee
The fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are of very great interest in themselves, apart from the significant aid they give to the fuller appreciation of the surviving complete plays. ...
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