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Eight Great Tragedies
by Barnet, Sylvan; Berman, Morton; and Burto, William (Editors)
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A: Mentor Books/New American Library, 1957. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. The complete texts of eight of the greatest plays, illuminating the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to O'Neill. It also includes important essays by noteworthy critics and philosophers: Aristotle, Hume, Emerson, Tillyard, Richards and Krutch. Tragedy Plays: Prometheus Bound-Aeschylus; Oedipus the King-Sophocles; Hippolytus-Euripedes; King Lear-Shakespeare; Ghosts-Ibsen; Miss Julie-Strindberg; On Baile's Strand-Yeats; Desire Under the Elms-O'Neill. Cover is clean, scuffed along top edge, light creasing on spine; tight glued binding. Internals quite clean,and completely free from any markings. 443 pages. 4.24 x 7 inches. Mentor Books/New American Library, New York, 1957.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020122
- Title
- Eight Great Tragedies
- Author
- Barnet, Sylvan; Berman, Morton; and Burto, William (Editors)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Mentor Books/New American Library
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE; DRAMA; PLAYS; THEATRE; TRAGEDY; AESCHYLUS; EURIPEDES; SOPHOCLES; SHAKESPEARE; IBSEN, HENRIK; STRINDBERG, AUGUST; YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER; O'NEILL, EUGENE; CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHERS;
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- 12mo
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