Zeno's extraordinary and disturbing paradoxes, the atomic theories of Democritus that so strikingly anticipate contemporary physics, the enigmatic and haunting epigrams of Heraclitus - these are just some of the riches to be found in this ...
First published in 1922, the author's second collection of short stories reflects American society during the 1920s and portrays the aristocratic class of the era.
Tells the story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.
Literature, Compact 4/e , the concise edition of the most popular introduction of its kind, is organized into three genres--Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.