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Oedipus at Colonus written by Sophocles is the second play of The Oedipus Trilogy which portrays the tragic hero Oedipus’s exit from Thebes till his death at Athens. Oedipus was expelled from the kingdom by his sons Eteocles and Polynices, and travel to Athens accompanied by his daughters Antigone and Ismene to die in the holy land. On reaching .. 424v5p
Sophocles k232x
Antigone written by Sophocles is the third play of The Oedipus Trilogy which portrays the braveness of Oedipus daughter Antigone and the tragedy of the Thebes ruler Creon. The death of Oedipus triggered the civil war and the sons of Oedipus died in an attempt for the throne. Creon, the ruler of the Thebes has decided to honor Eteocles and Polyne..
Brothers Grimm 1a4b1c
Household Stories is a collection of fairy tales originally written in German by the German academicians Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, most popularly called as Brothers Grimm. The authors ignited the interest in fairy tales, while the romanticism and Romantic nationalism were ruling the literary world in 19th century. The have aided the recover..
Nathaniel Hawthorne 4l3654
Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist who is best ed for his fiction work “The Scarlet Letter”. Hawthorne titled this short story collection in remembrance of his life with his wife at “The Old Manse”, a historic manse of American literary associations. Like many of his works, Mos..
Henrik Ibsen 241a3i
Hedda Gabler is a play written by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright and poet who is ed for his realistic plays A Doll's House, Emperor and Galilean, and Peer Gynt to name a few. Hedda Gabler, a drama of realism has received many negative reviews for portraying the heroine as manipulative villain. Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an arist..
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4q265f
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet and philosopher credited as the founder of Romantic Movement in England. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written as poem narrates the long voyage experiences of a mariner who narrates his story to a man who is on his way to attend a wedding ceremony. Blesse..
Edmund Spenser 5b61p
The Faerie Queene is written by Edmund Spenser, an English poet who crafted the modern English verse. This epic poem has been considered as the first work to be compiled in Spenserian stanza which is a fixed verse form contains 9 lines. One of the longest poems of English language, this was written to celebrate the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I...
Knowles 4y705j
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights is folklore collection of stories based on the British leader King Arthur who won the sixth century battle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. Though the King Arthur’s existence is being debated by the modern historians, there are sources of poems and verses where he is casted as the great warrior, w..