Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who bu ... 続きを読む

The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with D ... 続きを読む

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of T ... 続きを読む

紀元前2世紀頃のガリア、イギリス、アイルランドなどヨーロッパ西部で初めて注目を集めて以来、2000年以上も語られてきたドルイドは、その長い歴史にもかかわらず、つかみどころのない存在です。ドルイドは得体が知れず不可解であるとしさまざまに解釈されてきました。本書では、ドルイドの起源をたどり、彼らの信条と慣習を示す痕跡を検証し、三種類に分かれていたとされるドルイドのカースト制度がどのような変貌を遂げ、今 ... 続きを読む

The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the myt ... 続きを読む

I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both dir ... 続きを読む

This volume offers John Webster's two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the comedy written with Wil ... 続きを読む

French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, only to discover instead the Nautilus, a self-contained world built by its enigmatic captain. Together Nemo and Aronna ... 続きを読む

Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced hi ... 続きを読む

In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainm ... 続きを読む