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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Harold Bloom
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPublished in 1960 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy...Categorized as:
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An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Aeschylus, Sophocles
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra, and Euripides’ Orestes—giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance...Categorized as:
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides by Anne Carson, Euripides
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWriting with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the unforgiving classical world, Carson, a poet and classicist, translates four of the eighteen surviving plays by Euripides.Includes Heracles, Hecuba, Hippolytus, Alcestis... -
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics) by Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most enduring and important legacies of the Western world... -
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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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Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen.As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best...You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant...Categorized as:
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Aeneid Book VI by Virgil
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the centuryIn a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld...Categorized as:
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Vikramaditya Veergatha Book 1 The Guardians of the Halahala by Shatrujeet Nath
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe deadly Halahala, the all-devouring poison churned from the depths of the White Lake by the devas and asuras, was swallowed by Shiva to save the universe from extinction.But was the Halahala truly destroyed?A small portion still remains – a weapon powerful enough to guarantee victory to whoever possesses it...Categorized as:
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Tales from Ovid by Ovid
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding...Categorized as:
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Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies...Categorized as:
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King Midas and the Golden Touch by M. Charlotte Craft
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratings"There once lived a very rich king called Midas who believed that nothing was more precious than gold."So begins this imaginative and breathtaking retelling of the myth of the man with the golden touch. When a mysterious stranger offers to reward Midas for a kindness, the king does not hesitate: He wishes that all he touches would turn to gold...Categorized as:
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Raj Kahini by Abanindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings<span><span>An unforgettable historical novella that leads you to the flowing sand dunes of Rajasthan, the clash of swords, to the courtyard of kings and queens. The book captures the spirit of a heroic past that never fails to move readers even today...Categorized as:
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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler, Various
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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...Categorized as:
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The Complete Plays by Aristophanes
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known...Categorized as:
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Queen of the Hollow Hills by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom ancient henges to windswept mountains, dive into a world where pagan gods rule, powerful priestesses weave magic, and fierce Celtic tribes battle for dominance.Britain, AD 38. Having defeated her enemies, Queen Cartimandua works swiftly to stabilize the north. But not all foes yield quietly...Categorized as:
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Euripides V: Electra / The Phoenician Women / The Bacchae by Euripides
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use...Categorized as:
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House of Odysseus by Claire North
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" reimagining from the award-winning author of the Penelope trilogy breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men (Jennifer Saint). On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home...Categorized as:
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Here, The World Entire by Anwen Kya Hayward, Anwen Hayward
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter being accused of desecrating Athena's temple and subsequently cursed with monstrousness, Medusa lives alone on the outskirts of the world, secluding herself from everyone so as to keep both herself and the rest of the world safe. When Perseus comes to ask for her help, Medusa tries desperately to make him leave, but no matter what she does, Perseus stays... -
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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... -
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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...Categorized as:
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Heroides by Ovid
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal... -
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Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen by Euripides
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThis volume contains the following tragedies by Euripides:1. The Cyclops, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith2. Heracles, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith3. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Witter Bynner and with an introduction by Richmond Lattimore4... -
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The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEuripides (c.484-406 B.C.) was the most controversial of the three great Greek tragedians and the most modern. His major themes- religious scepticism, the injustices suffered by women and the destructive folly of war-are issues still vitally important today...Categorized as:
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Sophocles II: Ajax / Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies, #4) by Sophocles
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratings"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase...Categorized as:
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Euripides: Ten Plays by Euripides
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and The Cyclops...Categorized as:
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Princess of Sparta by Penelope Haines
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s Helen of Troy’s older sister.She’s a Spartan Princess.She’s High Queen of Mycenae.Her name is Clytemnestra.In a world where women are submissive, she rules.In a world where wives are loyal, she is unfaithfulIn a world where honour and blood feuds abound she exacts the ultimate revenge...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Seer of Egypt by Pauline Gedge
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHuy has risen from lowly origins to become the Seer of the King. Yet Amunhotep’s patronage is both a blessing and a curse to Huy, who feels imprisoned by the gift Thoth has imposed on him and by the life he must live to keep it. Though rewarded with wealth and influence, Huy longs for the pleasures of those he sees around him, especially love, which seems forever lost to him...Categorized as:
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A Song of War: A Novel of Troy by Kate Quinn, Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTroy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy's gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens, heroes and cowards, seers and kings . . . and these are their stories...Categorized as:
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 2 of 3 by Anonymous
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning...Categorized as:
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Sita's Sister by Kavita Kané
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Karna's Wife, comes this book about Urmila, Sita's sister and the neglected wife of Lakshman, and one of the most overlooked characters in the Ramayana. As Sita prepares to go into exile, her younger sisters stay back at the doomed palace of Ayodhya, their smiles, hope and joy wiped away in a single stroke... -
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Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds by Aristophanes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAristophanes (c.447-385 B.C.), a contemporary of Socrates, was the last and greatest of the Old Attic comedians.Only eleven of his plays survive, and this volume contains Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians, a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta; and The Clouds, a satire on contemporary philosophy...Categorized as:
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Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus, Euripides
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAgememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father...Categorized as:
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Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeploying the same gripping plot dynamics and unforgettable sense of time and place that she used in the bestselling Wolf Den trilogy, Harper tells the thrilling story of the child of one of Ancient Rome's most implacable foes, Boudicca.There is more than one way for a woman to fight. From the author of the bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy...Categorized as:
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![Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides]()
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use...Categorized as:
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Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs by Aristophanes
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis volume brings together the four most acclaimed comedies of Greek playwright Aristophanes. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers - Socrates in particular - and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged...Categorized as:
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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... -
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The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSeamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes is responsive to the Greek playwright's understanding of the relations between public and private morality...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles by Euripides
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMedea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions... -
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Favorite Greek Myths by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere are twelve Greek myths, retold in an accessible style and magnificently illustrated with classic elegance. Full color...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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The Secret Book of Kings by Yochi Brandes, Yardenne Greenspan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStories are deadlier than swords. Swords kill only those who stand before them, stories decide who will live and die in generations to come.Shlom'am, a young man from the tribe of Ephraim, has grown up in the shadow of several secrets. He wonders why his father is deathly afraid of the King's soldiers, and why his mother has lied to him about the identities of those closest to him...Categorized as:
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Medusa by Nataly Gruender
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn intimate look into the life of a legendary mythical villain who has so often been stripped of her voice and humanity in this debut novel, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe and the works of Jennifer Saint.You know how Medusa’s story ends, but you’ve never heard her tell her own story… until now...Categorized as:
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women by David Grene, Aeschylus
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies... -
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A Spartan's Sorrow by Hannah M. Lynn
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAll murders must be avenged. While the rest of Greece mourns for the war that has taken their husbands away, Clytemnestra fears the day it will bring hers back. When her husband willingly sacrifices their eldest daughter to appease the Gods, Clytemnestra vows to do whatever it takes to protect her remaining children. But in doing so she faces losing them altogether...Categorized as:
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Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen by Euripides
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets." In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to use his own words, "as they are." Responsive to the fate of women, these plays give voice to a howl of protest against the world in which we live...Categorized as:
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Aeschylus: Seven Plays (The Greek Classics) by Aeschylus
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe importance of Aeschylus in the development of the drama is immense. Before him tragedy had consisted of the chorus and one actor; and by introducing a second actor, expanding the dramatic dialogue thus made possible, and reducing the lyrical parts, he practically created Greek tragedy, as we understand it... -
![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...
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