Penguin Classics, May 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Andrew George's masterly new translation (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature A Penguin Classic Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the.....
Modern Library, January 1963. Hardcover. A very good copy in a good only dust jacket.
Penguin Classics, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly.....
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.....
University of California Press, October 1982. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains a new preface by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate.....
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.....
Penguin Classics, June 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined.....
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, August 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In "The Nicomachean Ethics" Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man: the life of happiness or "eudaimonia"
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.....
Penguin Classics, June 1971. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and.....
Viking Adult, November 1996. Trade Paperback. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. 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.....
Cambridge University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This book presents ancient Greek tragedy in the context of late-twentieth-century reading, criticism and performance. The twelve chapters, written by seven distinguished scholars, cover tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, a range of.....
Penguin Books, January 1971. Trade Paperback. Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and.....
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.....
Robert Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. 90 plus 1 page of ads. Later printing. Near fine copy in decorated green cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on front cover. Slight edge wear. No dust jacket.
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, June 1950. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to.....
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Dover Publications, June 1991. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Considered by many the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies, Oedipus Rex is Sophocles' finest play and a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Aristotle considered it a masterpiece of dramatic construction and refers to it frequently in the Poetics. In.....
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.....
Oxford University Press, August 2009. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the.....
New Amer Library (Mm), August 1995. Trade Paperback.
Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.