Signet, January 2007. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (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. ".....
Signet, January 2007. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E., Homer's story follows Odysseus on a decade-long journey as he flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the Sirens, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks.....
Penguin Classics, September 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynasty Written more than six centuries ago and still read by millions throughtout Asia today.....
Penguin Classics, July 1984. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays.....
Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The first literary addiction memoir, featuring the autobiographical Suspiria de Profundis, the inspiration for the 2018 horror film Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton and directed by Luca Guadagnino In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal.....
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.....
Penguin Classics, May 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people--now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an.....
Mariner Books, July 2003. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. The most widely read and enduring interpretation of the classic Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring.....
Penguin Classics, January 2000. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at.....
Bantam Books, January 2005. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply.....
Penguin Classics, September 1998. Trade Paperback. This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the anonymous.....
Penguin Classics, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Advice and guidance for women of all ages, from Europe's first professional woman writer Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society.....
Penguin Classics, January 2000. Trade Paperback. A fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, written by France's first professional woman of letters The pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade.....
Thomas B. Mosher, 1922. Hardcover. 134 pages. Limited edition, 1/925 copies, on Van Gelder paper. Third edition, limited. Near fine in thick paper covers with yapp edges. Pages partially uncut. Spine slightly tanned. In intact and very good slipcase.