University of Chicago Press, April 2026. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The most accurate and poetic translation of the world's greatest epic, which is now a film by Academy Award winner Christopher Nolan! "This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet."--Edith Hall, The Telegraph A magnificent feat of.....
Penguin Classics, November 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world.....
Chronicle Books, 2004, 2005. Trade Paperback. 218, 217, 207 pages. 7-1/2 by 11 inches. Dante's Divine Comedy in three volumes, illustrated in black-and-white etchings by Sandow Birk. Very good paperback copies. Spine of Dante's Inferno is color faded. Minor edgewear and bookplate pasted into each volume.
Adams Media Corporation, June 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. For almost three thousand years, the Odyssey has captured imaginations with seafaring adventure, romance, friendships, as well as feats of heroism and of bloody revenge. The tale of Odysseus's long and eventful journey home remains one of the greatest epics ever.....
Flame Tree Collections, November 2018. Hardcover. A new copy. Dante's masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless art of Gustave Doré. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice, journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the soul through the Afterlife, with the subtle engraving.....
University of California Press, November 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Such [an] impressive, virtuosically skillful translation of metrical ancient poetry."--Emily Wilson This fresh translation revives the politics and power at play in classical mythology's foremost source Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In.....
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the.....
Penguin Classics, May 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, September 2026. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination--explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and.....
Modern Library, May 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Timeless insights into what it takes to lead a meaningful life--still profoundly relevant nearly two thousand years later. Now featuring a brand-new foreword from Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way!.....
Penguin Classics, January 2000. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at.....
St. Martin's Press, 1998. Hardcover. 294 pages. A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. Some dust stains to top text block. Binding is tight and spine is straight. Divided between the outer world of public affairs and the inner world of poetic insight, Chaucer sought to make.....
St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 294 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. Some dust stains to top text block. Binding is tight and spine is straight. Divided between the outer world of public affairs and the inner world of.....
Union Square & Co., September 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. The classic collection of writings by second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is one of the foundational texts of the Stoic philosophy--and remains an evergreen bestseller centuries later, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line.....
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Originally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic.....
Penguin Classics, November 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A new modern translation of "The Iliad" that is fast-moving, direct, emphasizes the action of the story, and is especially helpful for those first encountering this classic work.
University of Chicago Press, May 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she's talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why--for better or (sometimes) worse--antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary.....
Chronicle Books, May 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. The legendary Stephen Fry breathes new life into the adventures of Odysseus for the fourth and final installment in his internationally bestselling Greek Myths series. Odysseus's journey from the battlefields of Troy to his home in Ithaca is one of the greatest.....
Penguin Classics, September 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within.....
Cambridge University Press, 1999. Trade Paperback. Reprint edition with corrections. A paperback copy in very good condition. Plotinus is the greatest philosopher in the 700 year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics.....
Apollo Publishing International, November 2024. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Part history, part legend, this is the story of Sundiata Keita: the heroic figure who founded the empire of Mali. A thirteenth-century oral epic, Sundiata sees the full-length tale captured in print for the first time. This is Sundiata, the.....
Modern Library, May 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Timeless insights into what it takes to lead a meaningful life--still profoundly relevant nearly two thousand years later. Now featuring a brand-new foreword from Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way!.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2012. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that.....
Penguin Classics, September 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynasty Written more than six centuries ago and still read by millions throughtout Asia today.....
Penguin Books, July 1969. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us...without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry." For several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning.....