Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

Similar books (20)

• 

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Squire's Tale (Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 1921)

  This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Countess Cathleen

  "The Countess Cathleen" is a poetic play written by William Butler Yeats, one of the most celebrated Irish poets and playwrights. First performed in 1899, the play delves into themes of sacrifice, mor…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

  Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-cen…

  Buy this book on Amazon

• An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at The Odeon in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apes, an Indian, January 8,1836

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Small Place

  Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile is…

  Buy this book on Amazon

• Bisclavret

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Laugh of the Medusa

  Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to stay trapped in their own bodies by a language that does not allow them to express themselves, or they…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Titus Andronicus

  Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but i…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Beowulf

  Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel an…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Country Without a Post Office

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

  Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.
  
  Though many of us we…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Death of the Author

  "we know that to restore to writing its future, we must reverse its myth: the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the Author."
  
  'The Death of the Author' is a 1967 essay by the Fren…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Tempest

  Alternate Cover/publisher Edition ISBN 0743482832 (ISBN13: 9780743482837)
  
  Each edition includes:
  • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
  
  • Full explanatory notes conveni…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Girl

  "Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;..."
  
  Girl, a short story by Jamaica Kincaid, was originall…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Roxana

  Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Dr. Faustus

  The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title c…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

  Dive deep into The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot anywhere you on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories

  Buy this book on Amazon