Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia, has become a priestess of the fertility goddess and huntress, Artemis, who rescued her from being sacrificed by Agamemnon and took her to Tauris. The Tauri have a custom of sacrificing strangers. Orestes arrives to snatch the image of Artemis as penance for killing his mother, and Iphegnia is ordered to sacrifice him. Unable to commit such an act, they devise a plan, fool the king of Tauris, and escape with the idol. ..

Euripides writes about the concerns and fates of women and slaves, typically considered insignificant by his peers. In Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon, king of Argos, has assembled the Greek fleet in the bay of Aulis in preparation for war with Troy. Fate stills the winds and the ships lie idle in the water. The soldiers lay their ill fortune at Agamemnon’s feet. Fearing loss of power and his command, he decides to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods to raise a wind...

The original title was "The Romantic Egoist," which aptly describes the main character, a privileged young man who squanders his youth, his education, his affections, and his considerable social and financial advantages. Amory symbolizes a new generation of Americans who find no relevance in the past, face no meaningful struggle in the present, fear poverty as they've not earned their wealth, and struggle to form some vision of the future. This is F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, published in 1920...

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Henry Fielding's comic masterpiece, The History of Tom Jones, follows Tom's story from when he is first found by Squire Allworthy to the period when he must set out on his own. Tom Jones experienced immense success when it was published in 1749, selling ten thousand copies in its first year. It is regarded as one of the first English novels written and as a predecessor to the works of Dickens and Thackeray...

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One hundred and ten of Omar Khayyam's four-line verses, or quatrains (rubaiyat means "quatrains"), are presented here. They were translated from the Persian into English by Fitzgerald in the 19th century. Perhaps the most well known of the rubaiyat is The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. ..

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's first collection of short stories contains some of his best early work, including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." His Jazz-Age heroines are the finely honed young women who became the trademark of his fiction. ..

Where Angels Fear To Tread describes the unfortunate consequences of a young English widow's impulsive marriage to the son of an Italian dentist, who she meets while visitng Tuscany. With this novel, E.M. Forster contrasted the strictness of English life with the Italians? ?gioia di vivere.? ..

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Rickie Eliot, a sensitive young man, leaves Cambridge with aspirations of becoming a writer. Instead, he marries the superficial Agnes Pembroke and settles for a conventional middle-class life as a schoolmaster and later realizes the bitter consequences. The Longest Journey was Forster?s favorite novel...

Sir James George Frazer is often considered the founder of modern anthropology, though much of his work is now considered unacceptable. However, his major work, The Golden Bough, a sweeping comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, influenced many writers, including D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot. He examined mankind?s progression from magic to religion to science...