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Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of 'Old Cantankerous' (Dyskolos), the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as well as fragments from works including 'The Girl from Samos' and 'The Rape of the Locks', all of which are concerned with domestic catastrophes, the hazards of love and the trials of family ...

A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal“Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition)“A quotations book with footnotes that are ...

The New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought.The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holme...

From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophistica...

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these important texts together, assembling a fascinating collection of primary sources—many translated into En...

Marcus Rutherford, the self-proclaimed king of Rutherford Industries and the meticulous ruler of his world, believes he's infallible. At 45, he's "well-preserved," undeniably handsome, and runs his empire with an iron, immaculately manicured fist. He's the reason Riverside isn't a ghost town, and he knows it. But his perfectly ordered domain shatters when a significant financial discrepancy appears, leading him to confront and fire Wade Hunter, a project manager and ex-military man with a ...

King Aaron of Westron thought it was a good idea to cheat on his husband for the millionth time, but this time he's taking the "work trip" excuse to a whole new level of commitment. Bored by ten years of marriage to his "maddeningly perfect" Prince Consort, Gregor, and tired of having his lovers exiled, married off to horse-faced nobles, or else forced into priesthood, Aaron decides that forging a letter about a non-existing military crisis is the only logical way to secur...

Power. Wealth. Arrogance. It all comes crashing down in one weekend.Marcus Rutherford is the undisputed king of Riverside, Wyoming. At forty-five, he's a titan of industry with a jawline that could cut diamonds and a bank account that commands absolute respect. He rules Rutherford Industries with an iron fist and takes pride in his reputation as precise, unyielding, and utterly narcissistic. He has the perfect home, the perfect career, and a devoted husband, Richar...

He is the CEO of an empire, but in his own kitchen, he is just the main course.Marcus Rutherford is a man who cultivated a reputation for being a cold, ruthless tyrant. As the CEO of Rutherford Industries, he is used to being the one in control, the one who ends careers with a single word. But the walls he built around himself are crumbling. He is discovering a hunger he cannot name, and a desperate need to be used is starting to consume him.A Recip...

When Power Meets Desire: A Journey Beyond ControlMarcus Rutherford has built an empire on discipline, control, and carefully maintained appearances. As the head of Rutherford Industries, he commands boardrooms with the same iron grip he uses to manage every aspect of his perfectly curated life. His marriage to Richard is stable, respectable, and fits seamlessly into the polished image he's spent decades constructing.But beneath the tailored suits and million-dollar deals, s...

A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in pooklyn Heights, a presidential hopeful, an inf...

Wildlife photographer Leo has dedicated his career to capturing the raw, fleeting beauty of the natural world. With two weeks left before his career-defining exhibition at London's prestigious Carrington Gallery, only one missing piece stands between him and complete artistic triumph: a single photo of the Sulaebirensis warbler—an elusive, jewel-toned bird hovering on the razor's edge of extinction, native only to the remote Scottish Hebridean island of Stóras.Leaving behi...