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Julius Caesar E<br />
William Shakespeare<br />
Though a staple in<br />
high school English<br />
classes, Julius Caesar is<br />
not a simple play. Seemingly<br />
irreconcilable forces<br />
are at work: fate and free<br />
will, the changeableness<br />
and stubbornness of ambitious<br />
men, the demands<br />
of public service and the<br />
desire for private gain.<br />
Drawn from history as<br />
recorded by Plutarch,<br />
the major characters—Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, and<br />
Mark Antony—are complex, as are the twists and<br />
turns of their fortunes. What kind of man rises to<br />
power What price does he pay when he becomes<br />
a politician These questions raised by Shakespeare<br />
are relevant in every age, whether ancient Rome,<br />
Elizabethan England, or even in our own day.<br />
ICE:JC-P . . . Sewn Softcover, 240 pp, $5.95<br />
Study Guide: ICES:JC-P . . . 32 pp, Softcover, $3.95<br />
The Red Badge<br />
of Courage E<br />
Stephen Crane<br />
Stephen Crane described<br />
his novel of the<br />
American Civil War as a<br />
“psychological portrait of<br />
fear.” Although he never<br />
experienced the horror<br />
of battle himself, Crane<br />
based his realistic narrative<br />
largely on stories<br />
told by Civil War veterans.<br />
While those accounts<br />
tended to focus on the external action of warfare,<br />
the young newspaper reporter aspired to illustrate<br />
the internal experience of the soldier. What does a<br />
man think and feel when he must kill or be killed<br />
When in the chaos of battle will fear paralyze him or,<br />
worse, cause him to turn coward and run In a sense,<br />
modern American fiction begins with Crane’s masterful,<br />
impressionistic depiction of Private Henry<br />
Fleming under fire.<br />
ICE:RBC-P . . . Sewn Softcover, 296 pp, $7.95<br />
Study Guide: ICES:RBC-P . . . 32 pp, Softcover, $3.95<br />
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Dracula E<br />
Bram Stoker<br />
When<br />
solicitor’s<br />
clerk Jonathan<br />
Harker travels to Transylvania<br />
on business to<br />
meet a mysterious Romanian<br />
count named<br />
Dracula, he little expects<br />
the horrors this<br />
strange meeting will<br />
unleash. Thus Bram<br />
Stoker’s 1897 novel of<br />
blood and passion begins.<br />
Often vacillating wildly between the terrible<br />
and the comic, Dracula at the same time brings to<br />
life a host of compelling themes: tensions between<br />
antiquity and modernity; the powers and limitations<br />
of technology; the critical importance of feminine<br />
virtue; the difference between superstition<br />
and religion; the nature of evil; and, perhaps most<br />
compellingly, the complex relationship between<br />
ancient faith and scientific enlightenment. More<br />
vivid than any of its varied film adaptations, and<br />
over a century after its first publication, Dracula<br />
still retains its sharp bite.<br />
ICE:D-P . . . Sewn Softcover, 592 pp, $11.95<br />
Study Guide: ICES:D-P . . . 32 pp, Softcover, $3.95<br />
A Tale of<br />
Two Cities E<br />
Charles Dickens<br />
In this exciting novel<br />
set during the French<br />
Revolution, Charles<br />
Dickens expresses sympathy<br />
for the downtrodden<br />
poor and their<br />
outrage at the self-indulgent<br />
aristocracy. But<br />
Dickens is no friend of<br />
the vengeful mob that<br />
storms the Bastille and<br />
cheers the guillotine. As with all of his stories, his<br />
passion is for the unforgettable and unrepeatable<br />
individuals he creates. The sorrows of the suffering<br />
masses, their demands for justice, and the indiscriminate<br />
fury they unleash take flesh in Madame Defarge,<br />
while the self-sacrifice that is the truest means<br />
of atonement and rebirth manifests in the unlikely<br />
hero Sydney Carton. In A Tale of Two Cities, humanity<br />
does not show its best side in the mean streets of<br />
Paris or even London, but in the intimate circle of<br />
loyal friends that gathers around the honorable Doctor<br />
Manette and his lovely daughter, Lucie.<br />
ICE:TTC-P . . . Sewn Softcover, 536 pp, $11.95<br />
Study Guide: ICES:TTC-P . . . 32 pp, Softcover, $3.95<br />
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