Author: Molière
Publisher: Librio
Language: French

Vieillard irascible et méprisable, Harpagon s'est laissé consumer par l'appât du gain au point que l'avarice conduit toutes ses relations : c'est un tyran, un égoïste, un paranoïaque sans scrupules, prêt à vendre sa fille et à désargenter son fils pour protéger sa fortune. Quant à sa prétendue attirance pour Mariane, elle ne résistera pas à sa fascination pour l'or... L'Avare met en scène le pouvoir de l'argent, tout autant capable de dévorer un homme que de détruire les liens familiaux et sociaux.

ISBN: 9782290200995
Price: 3.95$ (CAD) (Electronic versions also available)

Author: Molière
Publisher: Librio
Language: French

S'il peste contre le coût des soins, Argan, hypocondriaque, ne peut se passer des médecins. Il rêve donc de voir sa fille épouser un praticien, Diafoirus. Mais Angélique aime Cléante, et refuse le choix de son père. Ce dernier, ulcéré, se fait fort de la déshériter au profit de Béline, son épouse hypocrite. C'est sans compter l'aide providentielle de Toinette, servante effrontée qui s'ingénie à faire triompher la cause des amoureux.

Dernière oeuvre de Molière, cette comédie-ballet en trois actes obtint un succès sans égal au Palais-Royal où elle fut jouée. C'est là que, à l'issue de la quatrième représentation, Molière fut terrassé par une violente attaque.

ISBN: 9782290108864
Price: 3.95$ (CAD)

Author: Molière
Publisher: Gallimard
Language: French

Alceste est un « mélancolique » qui s'aveugle sur lui-même pour mieux condamner les autres. Placé dans une situation sociale comique, amoureux d'une coquette, il voit défiler tous les types humains qu'il réprouve.

Alceste n'est pas en accord avec son temps : il rejette les compromis, proteste conte la frivolité des salons et la fausseté des rapports humains. Le Misanthrope est ainsi la pièce la plus complexe de Molière, car la plus fidèle aux contradictions de l'homme et de la société.

ISBN: 9782070449934
Price: 3.95$ (CAD)

Author: Molière, Georges Forestier, Claude Bourqui, Alain Riffaud, Edric Caldicott
Publisher: Gallimard
Language: French

Les pièces du dramaturge sont accompagnées d'un appareil critique qui souligne sa modernité par rapport aux auteurs de son temps. Elles sont proposées dans un ordre qui reconstitue leur trajectoire éditoriale. Coffret publié à l'occasion du quatre centième anniversaire de la naissance de Molière.

ISBN: 9782072860621
Price: 284.95$ (CAD)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
Language: English

William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies — but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke a range across the spectrum of human emotion. 

ISBN: 9781645171553
Price: 19.99$ (CAD)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
Language: English

Bring on the merriment whenever you open this collection of Shakespeare’s entertaining comedies. The comedies of William Shakespeare — including The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As You Like It — have entertained readers and theatergoers for centuries. This elegant Word Cloud edition of William Shakespeare Comedies includes all fourteen of the Bard’s comedies in a single volume, so readers can revisit their favorite plays and passages with ease.  

ISBN: 9781645171546
Price: 19.99$ (CAD)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English

One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt, and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland, in order to succeed him on the throne. This foul deed soon entangles the conscience-stricken nobleman in a web of treachery, deceit, and more murders, which ultimately spells his doom. Set amid the gloomy castles and lonely heaths of medieval Scotland, Macbeth paints a striking dramatic portrait of a man of honour and integrity destroyed by a fatal character flaw and the tortures of a guilty imagination.

ISBN: 9780143128564
Price: 13.50$ (CAD)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English

William Shakespeare's timeless story of star-crossed lovers. One of the Bard's most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet is both the quintessential account of young love and the cautionary tale of the tragedy that can occur when the forces of passion and pride are at odds.

ISBN: 9780451526861
Price: 7.95$ (CAD)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English

William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the incredible story about love, rebellion, and generosity. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too.

ISBN: 9780143130239
Price: 13.50$ (CAD) (Other formats also available)

Author: Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King. The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most enduring and important legacies of the Western world. Not only is the influence of Greek drama palpable in everything from Shakespeare to modern television, the insights contained in Greek tragedy have shaped our perceptions of the nature of human life. Poets, philosophers, and politicians have long borrowed and adapted the ideas and language of Greek drama to help them make sense of their own times.

ISBN: 9780812983098
Price: 29.92$ (CAD) (Other formats also available)

Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English

King Oedipus tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. With profound insights into the human condition, it is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident in his own authority.

ISBN: 9780140440034
Price: 19.00$ (CAD)

Author: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Publisher: Farrar Stars & Giroux
Language: English

In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — Agamemnon, Elektra, and Orestes. After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra's actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's death with the help of his sister Elektra. In the end, Orestes is driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family. Condemned to death by the people of Argos, he and Elektra must justify their actions — or flout society, justice and the gods.

ISBN: 9780865479166
Price: 24.50$ (CAD)

Author: Homer
Publisher: Pan Macmillan - MCL
Language: English

The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Paris, a Trojan prince, wins Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between three goddesses, and abducts her from her Greek husband Menelaos. The Greeks, enraged by his audacity, sail to Troy and begin a long siege of the city. The Iliad is set in the tenth year of the war. Achilles – the great Greek warrior – is angry with his commander, Agamemnon, for failing to show him respect. He refuses to fight any longer, which is catastrophic for the Greeks, and results in personal tragedy for Achilles, too.

ISBN: 9781529015003
Price: 24.99$ (CAD)

Author: Homer
Publisher: Pan Macmillan – MCL
Language: English

T. E. Lawrence's original translation of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters, and sirens, while his wife Penelope is forced to resist the suitors who besiege her on Ithaca. Both an enchanting fairy tale and a gripping drama, The Odyssey is immensely influential, not least for its rich complexity and the magnetism of its hero.

ISBN: 9781909621459
Price: 24.99$ (CAD)

Publisher: DK
Language: English

This indispensable reference book about mythology is packed with: Global coverage of world myths, profiling everything from the famous tales of the Greeks, Norsemen and Egyptians to the legends of the Caribbean, the Americas, Oceania and East Asia; thought-provoking quotes, graphics and flow-charts demystify the central ideas of each mythological narrative; more than 80 classic myths retold and explained; and boxes that place the myths in their cultural and historical context.

ISBN: 9780744039573
Price: 25.99$ (CAD)

Author: Jean Anouilh
Publisher: La table ronde
Language: French

« L'Antigone de Sophocle, lue et relue et que je connaissais par coeur depuis toujours, a été un choc soudain pour moi pendant la guerre, le jour des petites affiches rouges. Je l'ai réécrite à ma façon, avec la résonance de la tragédie que nous étions alors en train de vivre. » Jean Anouilh

ISBN: 9782710381419
Price: 12.95$ (CAD)

Author: Jean Anouilh
Publisher: Gallimard
Language: French

Jeanne. - Messire saint Michel ! sainte Marguerite ! sainte Catherine ! vous avez beau être muets maintenant, je ne suis née que du jour où vous m'avez parlé. Je n'ai vécu que du jour où j'ai fait ce que vous m'avez dit de faire, à cheval, une épée dans la main ! C'est celle-là, ce n'est que celle-là, Jeanne ! Pas l'autre, qui va bouffir, blêmir et radoter dans son couvent – ou bien trouver son petit confort – délivrée... Pas l'autre qui va s'habituer à vivre...

ISBN: 9782070363360
Price: 10.50$ (CAD)

Author: Sébastien Japrisot
Publisher: Gallimard
Language: French

Elle est la plus blonde, la plus belle, la plus myope, la plus sentimentale, la plus menteuse, la plus vraie, la plus déroutante, la plus obstinée, la plus inquiétante des héroïnes. La dame dans l'auto n'a jamais vu la mer, elle fuit la police et se répète sans cesse qu'elle n'est pas folle... Pourtant... Ce qui lui arrive est à n'y rien comprendre. On lui a cassé la main, dans une station-service. Juste la main, sans lui prendre l'argent. Comme pour lui dire que partout, où qu'elle soit, on pourra lui faire mal, par petits bouts, jusqu'à la fin, que jamais, quelle que soit la fuite, elle ne pourra être seule, libérée de ce qu'elle sait, du passé et de ce qu'elle cache...

ISBN: 9782070407637
Price: 16.95$ (CAD)

Author: John Milton
Publisher: Alma
Language: English

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve – the temptation and fall – is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty.

ISBN: 9781847498038
Price: 16.00$ (CAD)

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English

In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.

ISBN: 9780141393216
Price: 34.00$ (CAD)

Author: Wajdi Mouawad
Publisher: Lemeac
Language: French

Lorsque le notaire Lebel fait aux jumeaux Jeanne et Simon Marwan la lecture du testament de leur mère Nawal, il réveille en eux l'incertaine histoire de leur naissance : qui donc fut leur père, et par quelle odyssée ont-ils vu le jour loin du pays d'origine de leur mère ? En remettant à chacun une enveloppe, destinées l'une à ce père qu'ils croyaient mort et l'autre à leur frère dont ils ignoraient l'existence, il fait bouger les continents de leur douleur : dans le livre des heures de cette famille, des drames insoupçonnés les attendent, qui portent les couleurs de l'irréparable. Mais le prix à payer pour que s'apaise l'âme tourmentée de Nawal risque de dévorer les destins de Jeanne et de Simon.

ISBN: 9782760936188
Price: 9.95$ (CAD) (Electronic versions also available)

Author: Tennesse Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Language: English

The Glass Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally."

ISBN: 9780811214049
Price: 19.95$ (CAD)