The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso
Pantheon Books, January 1948. Hardcover. A very good copy in a dust jacket that is good only with loss to the rear panel.
Western Classics
The Iliad
Signet, January 2007. Mass Market Paperback. Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amidst the devastation and destruction of the Trojan War. To this day, the heroism and adventure in The Iliad have remained unmatched in song and story. "
Don Quixote (Modern Library Giants, 15.2)
Modern Library, January 1978. Hardcover. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes "the founder of.....
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
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.....
Meditations (Modern Library Classics)
Modern Library, May 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life. Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161-180). A......
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
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.....
Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Books, July 1969. Trade Paperback. 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 derived mainly from.....
La Fontaine: Selected Fables
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.
Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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.
The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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.
The Odyssey
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.....
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.....
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation
Harper Perennial, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheComplete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles'bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, andretaining the textual authenticity of Richmond Lattimore'sAeschylus, Bagg and Scully render.....
Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
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.....
Aucassin & Nicolete
Holiday House. Printed by William Rudge's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. 107 pages. French ballads from the 12th or 13th centuries. Very good copy in decorated paper over board and red cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. In worn decorated blue paper over cardboard slipcase.
Xerxes Invades Greece (Penguin Epics)
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.....
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.....
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)
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.....
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.....
Beowulf : A New Verse Translation
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 2001. Trade Paperback. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to.....