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The Odyssey by Homer 9780140449112
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.31'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one... -
The Iliad Homer 9781324076148
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.09When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, The Washington Post)-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New... -
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.08More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140447941
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.88'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780141394657
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.55A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation.The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Robin Kirkpatrick
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first timeThe Divine Comedy... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780141192444
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $20.98Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780140447897
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.88'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.67The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, predates Homer by many centuries... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.92Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.11Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design... -
The Iliad of Homer by Homer 9780226470498
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $28.35"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation-the gold standard for generations of students and general readers... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780199537372
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.28The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often... -
Hesiod and Theognis by Hesiod
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.13Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's Theogoney (c. 725 BCE) is a powerful creation myth: an epic, bloody tale of dark forces, sex and violence, tracing the history of... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9781472532480
Booksplease Price: $41.39'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his... -
The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.24We all keep secrets. Even from ourselves.'A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY'Elegant, sinister, stylish' CHRIS WHITAKER'Grips from start to finish' HARRIET TYCE* * * * *YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE MAIDENS... -
The Fall of Icarus by Ovid
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $6.30'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.92Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of... -
Lays of Ancient Rome: Epic Poems by Thomas Babington Macaulay 9788027340750
RRP: $9.66Booksplease Price: $8.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027340750Author Thomas Babington MacaulayFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.31The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in... -
The Mahabharata by J. D. Smith
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.92The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (artha or 'purpose', kama or 'pleasure', dharma... -
The Aeneid: A New Translation by Shadi Bartsch
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.65'Gripping ... A remarkable achievement' TLS On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - maybe even western civilization - might have taken a different course. ... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140424386
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.67'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn BraggIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140275360
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.31One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves to its tragic... -
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.28'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet,... -
The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain by Rowan Williams
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.26The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poetsTennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his... -
Come Close by Sappho
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $6.30'Yes, we did many things, then - allBeautiful ...'Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and... -
Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.44`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of... -
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $16.78Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects Catullus' mastery of poetic forms as diverse as the lyric, the... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781324001805
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.76When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded it as "a revelation"... -
Aeneid by Virgil
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.25'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where... -
Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Ovid 9780393326420
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.62Ovid's epic poem-whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages-is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a... -
The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers,... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140444445
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.67'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The TimesThe first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. In a series of dramatic... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780199536788
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.67This prose translation of the Odyssey is so successful that it has taken its place as one of the few really outstanding versions of Homer's famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus from the siege of Troy to his home in Ithaca, and of... -
Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho 9780520305564
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.08These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct-the best ever... -
Rumi'S Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit by Rumi
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571746894Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co -
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid 9780253033598
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.07Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before-sensuous,... -
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore 9781420926309
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420926309Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 205mm *... -
The Tale of Sinuhe by R. B. Parkinson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.72The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of its culture's ideals and anxieties. This anthology...