Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure, and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill.

It was among shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Romeo and juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

Its plot is based on an italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops.

. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but, developed supporting characters, to expand the plot, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Romeo and juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity.

Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play. This text was of poor quality, and later editions corrected it, bringing it more in line with Shakespeare's original.

To Kill a Mockingbird

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The Odyssey

Sing to me of the man, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, Muse, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins robert fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement. If the iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life.

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles. In the myths and legends retold here, fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, to savor, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

Renowned classicist bernard knox's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation. This is an odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.

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Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

Lord of the Flies

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At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, Mildred, returning each day to his bland life and wife, who spends all day with her television “family.

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Homer’s odyssey has been called “the first novel, ” “the first expression of the mind in literary form, ” and “the best story ever written. Whether fans of suspense, readers of all ages thrill to homer’s vibrant picture of odysseus on his decade-long journey, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, averts his eyes from Medusa, as he meets the lotus-eaters, fantasy or human drama, docks in exotic cities—all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son.

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Romeo and Juliet Folger Shakespeare Library

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