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My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish, Spanish... -
![C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by Constantinos P. Cavafy]()
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by Constantinos P. Cavafy
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsC. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![The Wrath of an Emperor by K.M. Munshi]()
The Wrath of an Emperor by K.M. Munshi
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi's versatility and achievements were in a way unique. He was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of India's Constitution and a seasoned statesman... -
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![The Complete Plays by Sophocles]()
The Complete Plays by Sophocles
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHere in one volume are the full texts of the seven extant plays of the Greek playwright Sophocles, regarded by the Greeks of his time as a kind of "tragic Homer". This collection includes the revised and updated translations by Paul Roche of the Oedipus cycle, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, as well as all-new translations of Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philocetes...Categorized as:
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![Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke]()
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTo Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German... -
![W.B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (Poet to Poet) by W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney]()
W.B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (Poet to Poet) by W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsW. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions... -
![Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler, Various]()
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler, Various
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture... -
![Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis by David Grene, Aeschylus]()
Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis by David Grene, Aeschylus
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGreek Tragedies, Volume III contains Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and Euripides’s “Alecestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore... -
![Karna: The Great Warrior by रणजित देसाई]()
Karna: The Great Warrior by रणजित देसाई
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Who am I?' It was a question that had troubled him all his life. His whole life had seemed entangled in the answer. His dignity, his destination, his ambitions - they all seemed linked to that entanglement. The irony was that the truth, instead of liberating him, had made him rudderless. In the Mahabharata, Karna is known to be the only warrior who could match Arjuna... -
![Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana by Virgil, G.P. Goold]()
Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana by Virgil, G.P. Goold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsVirgil, Volume Ii : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life... -
![Anglo-Saxon Poetry by S.A.J. Bradley]()
Anglo-Saxon Poetry by S.A.J. Bradley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProse translations of most of the poetry surviving in the four major codices and other manuscripts in a style accessible to a modern audience and yet close to Old English... -
![The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic by Simon Armitage, Homer]()
The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic by Simon Armitage, Homer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; and between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries—Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the... -
![The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by Helen Ward]()
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by Helen Ward
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gorgeously illustrated and poetically written classic, set in a 1930s-era city at ChristmastimeRediscover the tale of the simple country mouse, magically retold by Helen Ward. Beguiled by his cousin’s amazing tales, the country mouse visits the electric city. Unfortunately the town mouse forgot to mention that the city has a lot of noise, tall buildings . . -
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![Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson]()
Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFacing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his far-ranging travels... -
![Krishnavatara 111 - The Five Brothers by K.M. Munshi]()
Krishnavatara 111 - The Five Brothers by K.M. Munshi
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho has not heard of Sri Krishna who delivered the message of the Bhagavadgita and whom Bhagavat calls "God himself"? K.M.Mushi,the author has done a splendid job in exploring and explaining the various "Avatars" the Lord had donned. Thus the book comes in seven parts and this part is part 1 and named The Magic Flute... -
![Greek Myths by Diane Namm, Arthur Pober]()
Greek Myths by Diane Namm, Arthur Pober
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom Icarus's legendary flight to Orpheus's trip to the underworld, this stunning edition brings to life 15 classic Greek myths... -
![Horace: Odes and Epodes by Michèle Lowrie]()
Horace: Odes and Epodes by Michèle Lowrie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist, structuralist, and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet, who reinvented lyric at the transition from the Republic to the Augustan principate... -
![The Earliest English Poems by Michael Alexander]()
The Earliest English Poems by Michael Alexander
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language.Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English and into a verse form that retains the qualities of Anglo-Saxon metre and alliteration... -
![An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis]()
An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe award-winning An Arrow's Flight tells the story of the Trojan War and Pyrrhus, the son of the fallen Achilles, now working as a go-go boy and hustler in the big city. Magically blending ancient headlines and modern myth, Merlis creates a fabulous new world where legendary heroes declare their endowments in personal ads and any panhandler may be a divinity in disguise... -
![The Well At The World's End: Volume I by William Morris, Lin Carter]()
The Well At The World's End: Volume I by William Morris, Lin Carter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the land of the Upmeads, King Peter's sons thirst for adventure and the King agrees that all except Ralph, the youngest, may go forth. But Ralph secretly makes his way to Wulstead, and here learns about the Well at the World's End, beginning a journey which will eventually lead him there... -
![The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: 16 Volumes, Including The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous]()
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: 16 Volumes, Including The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors... -
![Cuchulain of Muirthemne: the Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster by Lady Augusta Gregory]()
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: the Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster by Lady Augusta Gregory
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy Dear Friends, When I began to gather these stories together, it is of you I was thinking, that you would like to have them and to be reading them... -
![The Selfish Giant and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde]()
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways... -
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![Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason]()
Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHerbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient 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 tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend... -
![The Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Giacomo Leopardi]()
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Giacomo Leopardi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBatracomiomaquia ou A Batalha dos Sapos e Ratos é uma paródia cômica no poema épico Ilíada, comumente atribuído a Homero pelos romanos, mas, de acordo com Plutarco1 foi escrito por Pigres de Halicarnasso, o irmão (ou filho) de Artemísia I de Cária, aliada de Xerxes. Alguns literatos modernos, no entanto, atribuem-no a um poeta anônimo do tempo de Alexandre, o Grande... -
![King Arthur Collection (Including Le Morte d'Arthur, Idylls of the King, King Arthur and His Knights, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) by Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson]()
King Arthur Collection (Including Le Morte d'Arthur, Idylls of the King, King Arthur and His Knights, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) by Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Once and Future KingThe legends of King Arthur have permeated our culture. Who hasn't heard of the Round Table, Camelot, or Excalibur? Queen Guinevere, Lancelot, or Merlin? These larger-than-life figures have grown from their historical roots to mythological status. Now you can read for yourself the origins and development of the myths as collected through the ages... -
![Lord Demon by Roger Zelazny, Jane Lindskold]()
Lord Demon by Roger Zelazny, Jane Lindskold
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe great wars between gods and demons began five millennia ago--and ended with the demons' crushing defeat and banishment from their homeland. The demon race would have surely perished in the empty dimension of their exile had they not found a secret conduit to a safe and hidden plane...called Earth... -
![Manon Lescaut by Vítězslav Nezval]()
Manon Lescaut by Vítězslav Nezval
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEdition of the playForeword A. HoffmeisterPhoto M. Hák a J. LukasCaricatures A. Hoffmeister, V. Holub a F... -
![Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl by Unknown]()
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl by Unknown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThese translations by Marie Borroff not only are one of the great achievements of the translator's craft but are works of art in their own right.--Lee Patterson, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies, Yale University... -
![Peter Pan by Jenni James]()
Peter Pan by Jenni James
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeter Pan needs help, and he's convinced the effervescent Wendy Darling is just the girl to champion his cause. Ever since the mischievous fairy Tinker Bell began recruiting—more like, snatching—boys from London's orphanages to take them to a magical place called Neverland, things have gotten out of hand... -
![Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West]()
Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived... -
![Winds of Hastinapur by Sharath Komarraju]()
Winds of Hastinapur by Sharath Komarraju
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘My hair is white and thin now. In a few moons, the Goddess will claim me, and I do not have a fresh young virgin by my side to absorb my knowledge and take my place once I am gone... -
![Four Plays: Medea / Hippolytus / Heracles / Bacchae by Euripides, Stephen Esposito]()
Four Plays: Medea / Hippolytus / Heracles / Bacchae by Euripides, Stephen Esposito
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides' plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae. These translations remain close to the original, with extensive introductions, interpretive essays, and footnotes... -
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![Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney]()
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira... -
![Trachiniae by Sophocles]()
Trachiniae by Sophocles
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSophocles' Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. It is also a play which presents problems to a modern audience... -
![Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by Unknown]()
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by Unknown
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil... -
![Jews Without Money by Michael Gold]()
Jews Without Money by Michael Gold
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the author's only novel--is a passionate record of the times...Categorized as:
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![Sophocles' Oedipus Rex by Harold Bloom]()
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex by Harold Bloom
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFirst presented between 429 and 425 B.C., Oedipus Rex is the most well known extant tragedy by the fifth century Greek dramatist Sophocles. The sheer volume of performances and reinterpretations of the work in the intervening centuries speaks to its enduring power... -
![Irish Myths and Legends by Lady Augusta Gregory]()
Irish Myths and Legends by Lady Augusta Gregory
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCombining Gregory's works GODS AND FIGHTING MEN and CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE. Gregory retells the myths and legends of the ancient Celts and reveals the roots of Ireland's literary tradition. Contains an index of characters and a pronunciation key to Gaelic names and locations... -
![Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings by Lin Carter]()
Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings by Lin Carter
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings is a study of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien written by Lin Carter. It was 1st published in paper by Ballantine in 3/69 & went thru numerous additional printings. It was among the earliest full-length critical works devoted to Tolkien's fantasies, the 1st to set his writings in their proper context in the history of fantasy... -
![The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: A Story from the Arabian Nights by Eric A. Kimmel]()
The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: A Story from the Arabian Nights by Eric A. Kimmel
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAli Baba learns the special words to open a secret lair filled with the loot of the forty thieves, but when he tells his brother, Qasim, greed takes over and Qasim is found dead, leaving Ali Baba to wonder if he had been better off not knowing the words at all... -
![Belfagor: A Tale (1840) by Niccolò Machiavelli]()
Belfagor: A Tale (1840) by Niccolò Machiavelli
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![Iwein: The Knight with the Lion by Hartmann von Aue]()
Iwein: The Knight with the Lion by Hartmann von Aue
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFew stories were as widely known during the Middle Ages as the account of Iwein and Laudine, which appeared in French, Welsh, English, Norse, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and two German variants... -
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![Sir Orfeo by Unknown, Alan J. Bliss]()
Sir Orfeo by Unknown, Alan J. Bliss
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
![Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by Various]()
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by Various
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe tales collected for Irish Fairy and Folk Tales all are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back much further, to a time when they were part of a centuries-old oral tradition of storytelling and had yet to be committed to the printed page. These are stories that passed down through the ages virtually unaltered in their telling... -
![Comus (Classic Reprint) by John Milton]()
Comus (Classic Reprint) by John Milton
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsExcerpt from Comus Few poems have been more variously designated than Comus, Milton himself describes it simply as "A Mask"; by others it has been criticised and estimated as a lyrical drama, a drama in the epic style, a lyric poem in the form of a play, a phantasy, an allegory, a philosophical poem, a suite of speeches or majestic soliloquies, and even a didactic poem... -
![Amphitryon by Molière]()
Amphitryon by Molière
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Molière play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera. Afterword by Richard Wilbur... -
![M�d�e: Pierre Corneille's Medea (1635) in English translation by Pierre Corneille]()
M�d�e: Pierre Corneille's Medea (1635) in English translation by Pierre Corneille
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn English-language translation of Pierre Corneille's first tragedy, Medee (1635) Little remembered in the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece is Medee, the woman without whom his quest would have been a failure and his life forfeit... -
![Suppliant Women by Euripides]()
Suppliant Women by Euripides
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' 'Suppliant Women'. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures the competing poles of the human psyche...
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