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Who is this mysterious stranger? Why is he wrapped in bandages from head to toe? Ever since he arrived, strange and terrible things have been happening. Is he responsible?

A stranger who feels mistreated by a supposedly incorruptible town concocts a vengeful scheme to test the honesty of its leading citizens.

Judged guilty by the Inquisition, a condemned man is slowly tortured.

A classic story of old western ways.

"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking masterpiece that challenges societal norms and explores the complex dynamics of marriage and identity. Set in 19th-century Norway, the play revolves around Nora Helmer, a seemingly content wife and mother, and her husband Torvald. As the plot unfolds, the audience is drawn into a web of secrets, lies, and personal revelations. Nora's journey from a docile, doll-like existence...

"When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece." "Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey...

A collection of Greek, Roman, and Norse myths.

Johnny Fraser, the son of Scottish immigrants now living in North Carolina, goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and has adventures on both sides of the Atlantic.

This is the story of Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy, the least promising student, who learns dragon-slaying. The headmaster gives Gawaine a magic word to say to himself when he experiences facing the dragon.

A classic story of compassion.