REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE (PENGUIN CLASSICS)
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, January 1973. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Western Classics
The Confessions (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
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.....
The Golden Ass (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
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.....
Gregorius: A Medieval Oedipus Legend
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.....
The Faerie Queene
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.....
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
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.....
Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
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.....
Four Tragedies and Octavia (Penguin Classics)
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.....
Suppliants & Other Dramas (Everyman's Library (Paper))
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.....
The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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.....
Horace: 'The Country, That's the Place to Live!' (Epode II, Beatus ille qui procul negotiis)
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.....
The Fate of Virgil as Conceived by Dante: A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living Between Walter Savage Landor and William Fiske
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.....
The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Books, 1957. Trade Paperback. "The Twelve Ceasars" of Suetonius (born AD 69), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin histories. Suetonius gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting conflicting evidence.....
Sixteen Satires (Penguin Classics)
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.....
The Twelve Caesars
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.....
Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1968. Trade Paperback. Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of.....
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
The Noonday Press / Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 215 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
The Portable Milton
Viking Adult, August 1955. Trade Paperback.
Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions)
Dover Publications, September 1992. Trade Paperback. One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. Written ten centuries ago, it celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden. Beowulf.....
7 Famous Greek Plays (Modern Library No.158)
Random House, January 1950. Hardcover.
The Oresteia
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.....
Cyclops (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Oxford University Press, USA, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the.....
The Canterbury Tales: Illustrated Prologue
Scala Arts & Heritage, August 2006. Hardcover.
Morte d'Arthur, Le: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics)
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.....