Overview :&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Odyssey&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RHomer&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&R&&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R... Read More
Overview :Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly an... Read More
Overview :Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks w... Read More
Overview :"This vivid and accessible translation captures the drama of Aeschylus' poetry and the excitement of the action in performance." --VICTORIA ... Read More
Overview :Chretien de Troyes was a French poet in the late 12th century whose work represents some of the best examples of Arthurian legend from medie... Read More
Overview :HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of j... Read More
Overview :Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne C... Read More
Overview :Hey, Over here. No, look up.Yeah, I'm the one they talk about. The headmaster's prized possession, locked away in the bell tower of Notredam... Read More
Overview :The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of... Read More
Overview :The bestselling saga of Eirik the Red, Leif the Lucky, and the first American explorers The all-time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Cla... Read More
Overview :Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European lite... Read More
Overview :"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English,... Read More
Overview :An assembly of Welsh stories from two ancient books, the 'Red Book of Hergest' and the earlier 'The White Book of Rhydderch' approx 500 BC.... Read More
Overview :Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BCE, is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with ... Read More
Overview :Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso's lifelong study of the gods in t... Read More
Overview :The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of ... Read More
Overview :The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the vict... Read More
Overview :Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introdu... Read More