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'Animal Farm' is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, and its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master and the submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind can fairly be said to have become a universal drama for our time.
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"Based partially on a Celtic legend, King Lear stands among William Shakespeare's supreme achievements. Rivalrous siblings and their conflicted fathers take to the stage in this potent meditation on mortality and the limits of kinship and love. Introduced by scholar Harold Bloom, this new edition presents a selection of contemporary full-length essays offering a range of critical perspectives on a work that remains a pinnacle of Western drama." "Lear's...
12) Beowulf
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Presents eleven critical essays that analyze the structure, myth, and history of the Old English epic poem depicting the heroic deeds of Beowulf, a member of a Germanic tribe who travels to Denmark to help defeat a monster named Grendel.