Famous Prefaces by Harvard Classics (4 results)

Hard Cover/No Jacket. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.437. From Troy to Leaves of Grass. clean tight copy dovers show slight edgewear with gilt rubbed off on spine.

Condition: As New. Mint condition Harvard Classics Famous Prologues. Last copyright 1938. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 040668; Eliot, Charles W. (Editor, Harvard Classics Series); Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - With Introductions and Notes - The Harvard Classics / The Five-Foot Shelf of Books - Volume 39 - Registered Edition / Deluxe Edition Corresponds to / earlier publication of ASIN: B000BUC7XW. 437 pages. Among the authors represented in this volume: William Caxton; Sir Isaac Newton; Francis Bacon; Goethe; H. Taine; and Walt Whitman.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Deluxe/ Registered Edition. 009285; Romeo and Juliet Macbeth King Lear Hamlet Othello Titus Andronicus Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Troilus and Cressida Timon of Athens Shakespearean comedies The Comedy of Errors All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Measure for Measure The Tempest Taming of the Shrew Twelfth Night or What You Will The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor Love's Labour's Lost The Two Gentlemen of Verona Pericles Prince of Tyre Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespearean histories Richard III Richard II Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Henry V Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry VIII King John tragedy tragedies comedy Shakespear 1564â"1616, English dramatist and poet, b. Stratford-on-Avon. He is considered the greatest playwright who ever lived. Life His father, John Shakespeare, was successful in the leather business during Shakespeare's early childhood but later met with financial difficulties. During his prosperous years his father was also involved in municipal affairs, holding the offices of alderman and bailiff during the 1560s. While little is known of Shakespeare's boyhood, he probably attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have been educated in the classics, particularly Latin grammar and literature. Whatever the veracity of Ben Jonson's famous comment that Shakespeare had "small Latine, and less Greeke," much of his work clearly depends on a knowledge of Roman comedy, ancient history, and classical mythology. In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior and pregnant at the time of the marriage. Famous Prefaces to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes (ENGLISH LITERATURE, POETRY, DRAMA).…