Author: Victoria Westbrook

2018-08-01 – Paradise Lost by John Milton has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released in 1667, the Whitewolf Classic edition contains the original English text.

Description: Lucifer is a proud angel who finds himself and his followers banished from Heaven as a result of a rebellion that he had led. In lust for vengeance, Lucifer ventures out from his prison in Hell, and travels to the Garden of Eden where he develops envy upon God’s most cherished creations, Adam and Eve. He exacts his wrathful revenge upon these creations, resulting in the Fall of Man, and is cursed to crawl on his belly and eat dust all the days of his life.

Paradise Lost is a beautiful expansion of the beginning of Genesis. The epic poem, written in blank verse and divided into twelve books, draws on major themes of ‘us’ and ‘them,’ the nature of conflict, ideas of the master-slave, and conflict between master and slave. The poem also draws perspective and parallels into the events of Heaven and Hell with those of our world, and the events that compose our history from creation to war in Heaven and Earth, to the banishment of the Fallen Angels and then Man from paradise.

Pages: 265

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2018-06-01 – The Iliad by Homer has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. The original text of this epic poem is known to have existed around 500 BC, but was not translated into English until around 1500 AD, two thousand years later. The Whitewolf Classic edition is a revision of the Samuel Butler version released in the late 19th century.

Description: Set around a few weeks in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War, the celebrated hero Achilles, in his anger, withdraws from battle after a bitter quarrel with King Agamemnon.

The Iliad is a rich classical text that explores ancient Hellenic themes, such as the Greek concept of honor and glory (Kleos), wrath (Menis), and other such concepts as fatalism, mortality, and the human condition.

The Whitewolf Classic edition of the ancient epic is a revision of the Samuel Butler translation with adjustments made to be more fluent for the 21st century reader. The English text is based on this translation made and published in 1898.

Pages: 390

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2018-03-01 – Nineteen Eighty-Four & Animal Farm by George Orwell have been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released on June 8, 1949, and August 17, 1945, respectively, the Whitewolf Classic edition contains the original English text.

Description: Winston Smith is an average citizen who is of the middle-class in the super-state of Oceania. Specifically, he lives on Airstrip One, and he is an editor for the Ministry of Truth. The problem, however, with Mr. Smith is that he loathes the Party, which ultimately lands him in trouble with the authorities.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (June 8, 1949) is a political fiction novel that depicts the horror and dystopian nature of totalitarianism. The novel defines the totalitarian state and all its characteristics from its lies, hypocrisy, and more, and has gained its importance in the discourse of modern politics and the rise of Neo-Totalitarianism in the 21st century. The comparison of modern regimes has most of all allowed a sharp criticism as being ‘Orwellian’ through comparison of this novel and the not-so-fictional reality presented by the author.

Animal Farm (August 17, 1945) is an allegorical fiction novella based on the Russian Revolution, that speaks on the oppression of the hardworking farm animals of Manor Farm, the revolt of the animals, and subsequent rule of animal over animal, which descends from the ideals at the start of the revolution to a dictatorship worse than the previous oppression at the hands of humans. The discourse and comparison on politics in Russia from 1917-1945 is meant to demonstrate the futile nature of populism over the wickedness that power brings to a person.

Pages: 394

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2018-02-01 – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released in 1597, the Whitewolf Classic edition contains the original English text.

Description: Romeo Montague is in love with the beautiful Juliet Capulet, daughter to his family’s rivals: the Capulets. The bitter feud between the two families has struck Verona long enough, and the forbidden love these two lovers hold shows sign that this war might resolve.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale of love and war. It is an early work of Shakespeare; one best enjoyed by adolescents. It offers insight into the cost of unnecessary bloodshed, the cycle of violence, sacrifice, and endeavour of love.

Pages: 128

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2017-12-01 – A Christmas Carol & Selected Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. The Whitewolf edition of these classical texts include the original English text released in 1843 of A Christmas Carol, as well as the original English texts of these novellas and short stories released between 1840-1870: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, The Seven Poor Travellers, and more!

Description: Ebeneezer Scrooge is a miserable and unscrupulous old miser who seven years ago had seen the end of life of his colleague, Jacob Marley, on Christmas Eve. Scrooge hates Christmas and avoids the holiday cheer. That same Christmas night he is suddenly visited by the ghost of his business partner, Marley, who warns him that he is to be visited by three more ghosts that will attempt to persuade him to change his ways lest he be doomed to severe punishment in the afterlife.

A Christmas Carol is an English classic that details modest themes of charity and good cheer surrounding the annual holiday that remembers the birth of Jesus Christ.

Pages: 537

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2017-10-01 – The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Well has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released on January 1st, 1896, the Whitewolf Classic edition contains the original English text, as well as a relevant short essay by H.G. Wells, The Limits of Individual Plasticity, released in 1895.

Description: When Edward Prendick finds himself lost at sea, the next moments of his life may as well be a hallucination as he finds himself rescued, but then stranded on the island of the infamous exiled biologist, Doctor Moreau, and his most unpleasant experiments.

The Island of Doctor Moreau can change the reader’s perception when it comes to the ideas of man versus animal; demonstrating the influence Charles Darwin had not only in the conception of this novel, but the minds of philosophers since then.

Pages: 146

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