Aladdin: A New Translation, Hardcover - Paulo Lemos Horta

Long defined by popular film adaptations that have reductively portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of da...

Contributor(s): Author: Paulo Lemos HortaAfterword by: Kwame Anthony AppiahEditor: Bruce RobbinsAn indispensable collection that re-examines what i...

What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in common? The answer is they've all been had...

Reducere. A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beow...

Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation - Diane J. Rayor

Reducere. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now avai...

The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.

Reducere. Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration ...

DescriptionPoetry - Ancient Literature These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to ...

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Reducere. A new translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121-180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome ...

A fresh English translation laid out facing the original Sanskrit for easy reference and accompanied by a wealth of essential ancillary materials t...

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A fresh translation of Vergil's Aeneid by a renowned classicist and scholar of Latin literature.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): VergilTransl...

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride an...

Reducere. One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between indiv...

Reducere. The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all world l...

DescriptionThis short course sets out a detailed study of the text, philosophy, and significance of the millennia-old yoga system defined in the Yo...

Reducere. A reissue of Plato's work on political philosophy, this new translation aims to provide an accurate rendition of the work.

A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSEMeet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. The friend ...

Reducere. A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife Brash and belligerent, lunatic and envigorating, ...

DescriptionThis is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of ...

This new translation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull restores what most English-language versions of the play omit - Humor. Considered a wor...

Reducere. Out of Bengal and the Hindu spiritual tradition comes a Nobel prize-winning mystical poet whose time for broad, popular acceptance has come. Willia...

Reducere. Written in 1912, the Soul's Calendar has 52 meditative verses, designed to stimulate awareness of the spiritual influences active during the season...

This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a founding document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for these perilous tim...

A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of t...

Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy. This is a fresh translation and in...

Reducere. This new translation of Sophocles' Antigone, one of the cornerstones of Ancient Greek Tragedy, is meant to satisfy several parameters: (i) above al...

DescriptionA classic work of Indian philosophy that succinctly spells out how the mind works and what is needed to attain liberation. In 196 short ...

DescriptionThe Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian ...

Reducere. "Calibrating his work with the research of other Gospel of Philip experts like Andrew Phillip Smith and Jean-Yves Leloup, Brantingham provides an e...

Inside this book you will find a treasury of secrets hidden within the original ancient story. What once was old has become new, for much can be ga...

Reducere. In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilog...

The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as E...

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Reducere. Just as there was no man on earth like Job, there is no book on earth like the book of Job. In this new commentary, biblical scholar Michael Brown ...

Reducere. The Japji is by far the best-known work of Guru Nanak (1469-1539) - poet, philosopher, historian, composer, First Sikh Guru and founder of the Sikh...

DescriptionA repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems a...

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Reducere. Aesop's ancient Greek fables, short tales with simple morals, often featuring talking animals, are deeply embedded in Western culture. This 1916 tr...

Fans of Brandon Mull and James Riley will love this thrilling third novel in the action-packed, accessible fantasy adventure series Order of the Ma...

Reducere. Produced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques--including a hand-sewn spine, uncut pages, and a cloth cover--this exquisite dual-languag...

Reducere. This incisive, illuminating translation of the Tao Te Ching treats these sacred writings as religious philosophy having as their central message th...

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature...

Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of ...

Reducere. In these glimmering and lyrical translations, with an introduction and scholarly endnotes cowritten with Willis Barnstone, Aliki Barnstone has been...

Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was ...