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