All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front, was an international sensation. Celebrated by countless readers for its moving depiction of the traumas suffered and the camaraderie shared in the trenches, the work also sparked controversy on all sides of the political spectrum, in which Remarque, now a…
An ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ for the Twenty-First Century
At the 7 Nov 2024 book launch celebrating the publication of her new edition, Katharina Rout spoke about All Quiet on the Western Front to an audience of about 45 people at The Attic in the historic railway station building in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. Excerpts from her wide-ranging address are presented here. On language, and…
A Youth in Germany
This is the first critical, contextualized edition in English of Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933), the remarkable autobiographical account of Ernst Toller (1893–1939), one of the most important German writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Toller was a celebrated poet and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the most significant and innovative playwright of…
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The Odyssey: Selections (8th C BCE) Homer The Trojan Women (4th C BCE) Euripides Antigone (4th C BCE) Sophokles The Apology and Related Dialogues (4th C BCE) Plato Socratic Dialogues: Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (4th C BCE) Plato Philebus(4th C BCE) Plato The History of the Kings of Britain (12th C) Geoffrey of Monmouth The Lais…