Sophocles, Author, Anne Carson, Translator, Michael Shaw, Introduction by Oxford University Press $29.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-19-504960-2
Every era needs the classics on its own terms, so Sophocles' Electra, translated by Anne Carson (The Beauty of the Husband; Forecasts, Dec. 18, 2000), should prove very popular among newcomers and seasoned readers of the sublime dramatist's brutal...
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Gita Wolf-Sampath, Author, Sophocles, Author, Title Sophocles, Author J. Paul Getty Trust Publications $25 (28p) ISBN 978-0-89236-637-8
Equipped with absurdist twists, the 18 short stories of Dreams, Demons and Desire by British novelist Wendy Perriam (Lying, etc.) are simply written tales of modern (and not so modern) malaise. In ""Angelfish,"" a disgruntled lodger turns his...
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Sophocles, Author , trans. from the ancient Greek by John Tipton. Flood Editions $13.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-9787467-5-9
Tipton takes the colloquial directness of Robert Fagles and the blunt eroticism of Anne Carson to the breaking point in this experimental translation of one the stranger and more unyielding works by one of Western civilization's founding...
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