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The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line translation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest translated into modern English.

Darker, weirder and shorter than its flashy younger brother Apocalypse Now, this modernist classic follows a riverboat captain and a reluctant assassin up the Congo River.

Presents five dozen sonnets of Shakespeare, including some of the best known in all of English literature.

Henry V is a study of kinship, patriotism, and heroic determination, tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, Princess of France.

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator.

Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself?

The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia.

After seeing the ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet realizes that his new stepfather was the killer and plots revenge and ponders the value of life.

Around the figure of Nostromo, Conrad spins a story about revolution, politics, an racial conflicts as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself.

Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love.