Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad, Hardcover - Alice Oswald

Reducere. In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attendi...

For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - wa...

Reducere. A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of ...

Reducere. This collection includes both of the greatest Greek stories ever told and numbers amongst the most important works of Western literature. "The Illi...

A Study Guide for Homer's "Iliad, " excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Epics for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character an...

Zinnie Harris's new version of Strindberg's nineteenth-century masterpiece, Miss Julie, relocates the play to central Scotland between the wars. Th...

These retellings of the Iliad and Odyssey from author of the }Demon Headmaster{ Gillian Cross are deceptively simple, accessible, and faithful to t...

Reducere. Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie is not a translation of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie but a version of it, moving the action from the original ...

Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's tra...

Reducere. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fi...

Reducere. Famously praised by John Keats for speaking 'loud and bold', Chapman's Homer brought Greek poetry and civilization to life for centuries of readers...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Seamus HeaneyThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this p...

Reducere. Let's take a break from facts and enjoy a leisurely stroll in myths and fiction. The Iliad is Homer's masterpiece. It is a story of love, adventure...

Reducere. In Classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as the Epic Cycle, of which only the Iliad and Odyss...

A book-length poem on the spectacle and symbol of the ocean, based on the }Odyssey{ and featuring key figures from Greek mythology.

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and can...

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and can...

Oswald's third collection of poems, following the success of her acclaimed river-poem Dart, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Written over several ye...

Reducere. Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, ``give s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the ...

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. "The Gilgamesh Epic is the most notable literary product of Babylonia as yet discovered in the mounds of Mesopotamia."The Gilgamesh Epic recount th...

Reducere. HARDCOVER, gloss finish 8.5" x 8.5" (216mm x 216 mm) 100 pages total - space for up to 188 guests entries A few Introduction pages (see info below)...

Reducere. HARDCOVER, gloss finish 8.5" x 8.5" (216mm x 216 mm) 100 pages total - space for up to 188 guest entries A few Introduction pages (see info below) ...

Reducere. This memorial book of the Jewish Community of Antopol, Belarus weaves together the history of a vibrant Jewish community, annihilated during World ...

The Simpsons is the longest running comedy in history. Gracing our screens since 1989, with over 600 episodes, the show is a cultural phenomenon. W...

Reducere. Travel Book: A Travel Guide of Hidden Gems That Takes You on a Journey You Will Never Forget If you're traveling the world - or if you just want to...

This high interest/low vocabulary retelling of The Iliad introduces young readers to Homer's thrilling epic tale. Set during the siege of Troy, The...

DescriptionHomer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redem...

Reducere. In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler's classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that today, more than eighty...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collec...

Reducere. A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfa...

Reducere. In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialo...

DescriptionWhether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the ven...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring his long life, the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley knew just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Winston Churchi...

A City and the Dead; Zablotow Alive and Destroyed Memorial Book of Zabolotov, Ukraine This is a translation from: Ir u-metim; Zablotow ha-melea ve-...

Reducere. The book is a journey to personal greatness, starting from within. It is the author's belief that we, as humans, all have great potential. Unfortun...

First published in Latin in 1418, this Christian devotional book is considered to be the most widely read Christian text in the world, aside from t...

Oswald Chambers, author of My Utmost for His Highest, remains one of the best-loved and most deeply respected theologians and writers in church his...

Reducere. Vishnevets, Ukraine, located on the higher north shore of the Horyn River, first had Jewish residents at the end of the 11th or 12th century. Later...

Reducere. Jews were living in Ciechanow by the year 1569. In 1656 during the Polish-Swedish war most of the Jews were killed by the troops of Stephan Czarnie...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a reprint of and English translation of the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Riteve, Lithuania, also called by...

Reducere. Remembering Dvinsk is a compilation of three sources. First is a reprint of the 1965 book Dvinsk - The Rise and Decline of a Town by Yudel Flior, t...

This is the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish community of Kobylnik Belarus, also known as Narach. It contains the history of the community, fi...

Reducere. The editors of the Suwalki Memorial Book write: "In our memorial book we give expression to the last breath and cry of pain of our holy martyrs, ou...

This is the translation of the Memorial or Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community of Wyszk w, Poland. The town of Wyszków, about 35 miles northeast o...