REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE (PENGUIN CLASSICS)
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, January 1973. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, January 1973. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, December 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This translation first appeared in a privately printed edition in 1904 (the translator remains anonymous). With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank.....
Wordsworth Edition, December 1999. Trade Paperback. This novel was written in Latin in the second century AD, and tells the story of the journey of the hero Lucius through Thessaly, the land of witchcraft. His curiosity leads to his accidental transformation into an ass, and he finds himself trapped in.....
University of North Carolina Press, 1955. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 143 pages. University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literature, Number Fourteen. First edition thus. A very good copy in blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Edge and corner wear. Publisher replaced.....
Penguin Classics, January 1979. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 'Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine' The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance.....
Penguin Classics, February 1984. Trade Paperback. A new copy. These plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. In "Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his.....
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.....
Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., May 1996. Trade Paperback. Translated and edited for study, this book presents a collection of Aeschylus's plays and fragments of plays, together with works by other dramatists which were attributed to him. Recent scholarship on Aeschylus is presented to enable an understanding of his life and.....
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.....
George & Helen Macy, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. [12] pages. Privately printed for the 'friends and near friends' of the publishers. A poem in iambic meter about a roman businessman who dreams of giving up the rat race of city life for a leisurely life of a country patriarch with.....
Penguin Classics, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of.....
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.....
The Noonday Press / Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 215 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Viking Adult, August 1955. Trade Paperback.
University of California Press, August 1993. Trade Paperback. The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides. These three plays recount the murder of Agamemnon by his queen Clytemnestra on his return from Troy with.....
Scala Arts & Heritage, August 2006. Hardcover.
Penguin Classics, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties.....
Syracuse University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 114 pages. 5-3/4 by 8-3/4 inches. By the scholar of medieval literature. First edition (first printing). A very good copy, no dust jacket. Red cloth with fading to spine. Ex-library with the usual stickers and markings. This copy belonged to the novelist and.....
University of Michigan Press, 1962. Hardcover.
University of Pennsylvania Press, January 1998. Trade Paperback. The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. Aristophanes wrote.....
University of Chicago Press, November 1968. Trade Paperback. In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries.....
Penguin Classics, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Euripides, wrote Aristotle, 'is the most intensely tragic of all the poets'. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors. Written.....
Hardcover.
Boydell Press, February 1995. Trade Paperback. The great vogue in Victorian times for matters Arthurian owes much to the poetry of Matthew Arnold and William Morris. Unlike Tennyson, however, neither of these poets is now remembered primarily for his Arthurian poems; as a result there is no modern anthology devoted.....