Metamorphoses: A New Translation, Paperback - Ovid

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 ...

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. Contributor(s): Author: OvidNotes by: Joseph ReedTranslator: Rolfe HumphriesOvid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western li...

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

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...

Reducere. A masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horac...

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

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, ...

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

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...

In the penultimate book of his epic Metamorphoses, Ovid continues his literary challenge to Virgil's Aeneid, narrating erotic adventures from early...

Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses - Peter Jones

The myths of Metamorphoses have inspired generations of writers, including Shakespeare. Over two thousand years later, they are reimagined for our ...

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

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

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

DescriptionEusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries o...

Often quoted as Russian literature's greatest comedy, The Government Inspector is a trenchant satire of the corruption, greed and stupidity of pett...

Publisher: Quality Chess Europe ABAuthor(s): Aron NimzowitschIllustration(s): b/w illus; b/w illusNumber of pages: 215Collection: Chess ClassicsPub...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryTranslationJ. R. R. Tolkien, author of LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT, in his famous 1936 lecture, BEOWULF...

Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern so...

Reducere. The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England.About the Author: Gerald J. Davis is the award-w...

Tolstoy knew as he was writing Hadji Murat, his last work of fiction, that it would not be published in his lifetime, and so gave an uncompromising...

Part of Alma Classics new series: 101 Pages, Three Years is, in the author's own words, " a novel of Moscow life" and an examination of its merchan...

One of Chekhov's most admired stories, 'The Kiss' is joined in this volume by five equally celebrated tales in a brand-new translation by Hugh Apli...

Reducere. The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the oldest story that has come down to us through the ages of history. It predates the BIBLE, the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. T...

Publisher: Catholic Truth SocietyAuthor(s): Catholic Truth SocietyNumber of pages: 72Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 149 x 104 x 22Cover type: Pa...

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

The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid's Metamorphose...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mathew (Caterham School, UK) OwenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 217 x 138 x 1...

Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collec...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Ovid's Amores 1.1 and 2.5, Propertius 1...

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death,...

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...

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...