Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Anger, Mercy, Revenge comprises three key writings: the moral essays On Anger and On Clemency—which were penned as advice for the then young emperor, Nero—and the Apocolocyntosis, a brilliant satire lampooning the end of the reign of Claudius. Friend and tutor, as well as philosopher, Seneca welcomed the age of Nero in tones alternately serious, poetic, and comic—making Anger, Mercy, Revenge a work just as complicated, astute, and ambitious as its author.

Few people know the truth... fairy tales are really nightmares.Growing up as the daughter of the beast himself, I saw the wicked truth after happily-ever-after ended. And I vowed to use the only skill I had, my ability to kill, to gain my freedom.But I failed.Imprisoned for my mistake, I spent every day thinking about the three men responsible for my downfall. And what I wanted more, revenge or the life that was stolen from me.Finally free, I join the Guild of Assassins, only to come face-to-face in the training yard with the men I cared for...the ones who had me locked away.The wolf shifter who was my best friend.The man who always made my heart race.And the dark prince of the vampires himself.I wanted to kill all three of them. But joining the guild meant working together. The guild was the only place where my background-as a princess and a prisoner-wouldn't be held against me.But our past is more complicated than I realized... and the future? Well, there might not be one.MERCY'S REVENGE is a steamy paranormal reverse harem with a kickbutt heroine. This is a whychoose romance, meaning that our heroine doesn't have to choose between her guys.

Mercy Tate has weaved a web of crime, passion and deception. Her desire to create a kingdom of revenge on all men unravels, when love's fury comes in her life. She succeeds and fails at becoming entangled in the same web she has constructed. From the streets of New Jersey to the fields of the south, she wraps the men in her silk and prepares to feast on their money, power and even their life!

"If only I could hate her more than I should've had. I should've never trusted her. If I had known she would become a traitor in the end. She feigned innocence all along. "Dark secrets, hidden lies and envy broke the bond of two successful entrepreneurs and caused a woman to lose all that she had. A modern-day story of passion, love and betrayal.

Mercy is a shapeshifting coyote and honorarymember of the Tri-Cities werewolf pack. When the pack stumbles upon the buriedbones of numerous dead children, she shapeshifts into a mystery of the legendaryfae - a mystery that draws Mercy's stepdaughter Jesse into thefray! The supernatural romance seriesMercy Thompson continues in this all-new, original story by New YorkTimes bestselling author, Patricia Briggs, exclusively created for the comicbook medium! Collects the six-issueMercy Thompson comic book series from 2014-2015, a story set in officialcontinuity.

Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' heads - are vigilante versions of Elizabethan law, where penalties suit the crimes: thieves' hands were cut off, scolds' tongues bridled. The revengers' language of 'paying' hints at the operation of revenge in the service of economic redress. Revenge makes contact with resistance theory, justifying overthrow of tyrants, and some revengers challenge the fundamental inequity of social class. Woodbridge demonstrates how, for all their sensationalism, their macabre comedy and outlandish gore, Renaissance revenge plays do some serious cultural work.

I got into the guild... but that was just the beginning. Imprisoned for attempting to kill a dangerous vampire, I finally gained my freedom after years of suffering. Now, I've been sent to the Guild of Assassins where I must succeed or lose my freedom once more. But nothing is that easy. The three men I've vowed to kill have been keeping secrets. Secrets about me. I need to discover the truth behind their lies, even if it destroys me. I'll ignore the wolf shifter with his intense stares. The man who oozes arrogance. And the vampire royal who wants me as his own. Even if it destroys me. Yet enemies I never imagined existed are tracking me, and the only chance I have at surviving might be to work with the three men I hate. It won't be easy, but I've been a princess and a prisoner, now I just needed to stay alive. MERCY'S REVENGE is a steamy paranormal reverse harem with a kickbutt heroine. This is a whychoose romance, meaning that our heroine doesn't have to choose between her guys.

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.

In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves… My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic. And a coyote shapeshifter. And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin werewolf pack. Even so, none of that would have gotten me into trouble if, a few months ago, I hadn’t stood upon a bridge and taken responsibility for the safety of the citizens who lived in our territory. It seemed like the thing to do at the time. It should have only involved hunting down killer goblins, zombie goats, and an occasional troll. Instead, our home was viewed as neutral ground, a place where humans would feel safe to come and treat with the fae. The reality is that nothing and no one is safe. As generals and politicians face off with the Gray Lords of the fae, a storm is coming and her name is Death. But we are pack, and we have given our word. We will die to keep it.

This multidisciplinary book furthers the debate on the much-contested concept of revenge. It offers a combination of conceptual arguments, and historical, fictional and socio-cultural examples of revenge.