Men in the Off Hours by Anne CarsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.7mbOverview: In Men in the Off Hours, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by […]
An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne CarsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 128 KBOverview: A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra, and Euripides’ […]
Finding Richard III: The Official Account of Research by the Retrieval and Reburial Project by Annette Carson (Editor), John Ashdown-Hill, Philippa Langley, David R. Johnson, Wendy JohnsonRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 3.24 MB/ 3.70 MB/ 3.45 MBOverview: Their task was to locate a lost grave in an obliterated church. The ‘Looking For Richard’ team of historians […]
Autobiography of Red by Anne CarsonRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 55 MBOverview: The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young […]
Eros The Bittersweet by Anne CarsonRequirements: Epub reader., 3.082 mbOverview: A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson’s exploration of the concept of “eros” in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with: “It was Sappho who first called eros ‘bittersweet.’ No one who has been in love disputes her. What […]