Ignatius Critical Edition Titles and Releases
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Books by Author
by last name, except for Wm. Shakespeare
Three Newest Releases
Merchant of Venice
This is probably the most controversial of all Shakespeare's plays. It is also one of the least understood. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? What is the meaning behind the test of the caskets? Who is the real villain of the trial scene? Is Shylock simply vicious and venomous, or is he more sinned against than sinning? (Read more..)
250 pp, $12.95. Order Now!
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Appalled by slavery, Stowe took one of the few options open to nineteenth- century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of millions of her contemporaries. The novel paints pictures of three plantations, each worse than the other... (Read more..)
525 pp, $14.95. Order Now!
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is, according to many critics and fond readers, the great American novel. Full of vibrant American characters, intriguing regional dialects and folkways, and down-home good humor, it also hits Americans in one of their greatest and on-going sore spots: the fraught issue of racism. (Read more..)
424 pp, $12.95. Order Now!
Upcoming Titles
MacBeth (Shakespeare)
A haunted tale of the hunger for power, and the dark places it can lead to.
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
On a pilgrimage to Canterbury, the pilgrims tell stories to pass the time. And what stories they tell!
The Metaphysical Poets
Marked by an intelligent playfulness and love of analogy, the Metaphysical Poets combined head and heart.
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
The king of English satire takes on his age, and mankind in general, in this sweeping narrative.
The Romantic Poets
Whether inspired by the beauties of nature or their own keenly felt perceptions, their verse changed the literary landscape.