Pantheon Books, January 1948. Hardcover. A very good copy in a dust jacket that is good only with loss to the rear panel.

Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. The epic tale of Odysseus's journey home - one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit.....

Penguin Classics, December 2006. Trade Paperback. A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian.....

Viking Press, 1979. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 273 pages. B/W illustartions. First edition thus. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Review copy with review slip laid-in.

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.

Penguin Classics, October 1966. Trade Paperback. Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding.....

Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence A Penguin Classic In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and.....

Penguin Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. When Xerxes, King of Persia, crosses the Hellespont at the head of a formidable army, it seems inevitable that Greece will be crushed beneath its might. But the Greeks are far harder to defeat than he could have imagined. As storms lash the Persian.....

Penguin Classics, October 1954. Trade Paperback. The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics. Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes.....

John Henry Nash, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 19 pages. Limited edition, #5/350 copies. Written to commemorate the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Virgil. 13 x 9.75 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in marbled paper over board and quarter leather covers with gold lettering on spine.....

Penguin Classics, June 1956. Trade Paperback. His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction.....

Penguin Classics, December 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with.....

Oxford University Press, USA, July 1998. Trade Paperback. "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century.....