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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1954]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Two old tramps wait on a bare stretch of road near a tree for Godot.
This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate...
Author
Series
Viking portable library volume no. P41
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1963 [that is, 1968]
Language
English
Description
François-Marie Arouet, who later took the name of Voltaire, was the son of a notary. His father wanted him to study the law, but he was determined on a literary career. He gained an introduction to the intellectual life of Paris, and soon won a reputation as a writer of satires and odes--but the suspicion of having written a satire on the Regent procured him six months' imprisonment in the Bastille. His first tragedy, Oedipe (1718) met with great...
75) The sibyl
Author
Language
English
Description
A man cursed because he denied a man rest on his way to crucifixion, seeks solace from an old prophetess