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The Iliad by Homer 9780140444445
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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 9780140449112
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and Haiku by Aya Kusch
RRP: £9.99£7.00No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780141192444
RRP: £16.99£12.68Part 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... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780141394657
RRP: £18.99£14.01A 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... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780140424393
RRP: £9.99£7.11'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56Composed 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... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780140447897
RRP: £9.99£7.51'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 Iliad by Homer 9780140447941
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780199537372
RRP: £8.99£6.45The 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... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £18.99£14.01Part 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 by Homer
RRP: £12.99£9.09A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem The Iliad is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393356250
RRP: £14.99£12.72The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781324001805
RRP: £30.00£25.23When 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"... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140275360
RRP: £16.99£12.68One 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... -
Beowulf: a new feminist translation of the epic poem by Maria Headley
RRP: £9.99£6.70A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the acclaimed novel The Mere Wife. Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf - and fifty years after... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George
RRP: £9.99£7.11The 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... -
The Iliad of Homer by Homer 9780226470498
RRP: £15.00£13.45"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
RRP: £32.00£22.69A bold, transformative new translation of Ovid's classicOvid's epic poem has, with its timeless stories, inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. The events it describes - the... -
Aednan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson 9781805331315
RRP: £20.00£13.46In Northern Sami, the word AEdnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two Indigenous Sami families, telling of their struggle and persistence over a century of colonial... -
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Barbara Reynolds
RRP: £18.99£14.01One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with... -
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
RRP: £25.00£18.02Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of prose... -
Aeneid by Virgil 9780872207318
RRP: £15.99£13.36Long a master of the crafts of Homeric translation and of rhapsodic performance, Stanley Lombardo now turns to the quintessential epic of Roman antiquity, a work with deep roots in the Homeric tradition. With characteristic virtuosity, he delivers a... -
The Secret History of the Mongols by Christopher P. Atwood
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships,... -
Hesiod and Theognis by Hesiod
RRP: £9.99£7.11Together 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... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: £11.99£9.93One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius 9780141396903
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written... -
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation.POET... -
Beowulf by Michael Alexander
RRP: £7.99£5.79Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the... -
Heroides by Ovid
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 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... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393089059
RRP: £31.99£24.92The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home... -
The Mahabharata by J. D. Smith
RRP: £18.99£14.13The 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... -
Iliad & Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £19.99£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607102120Author HomerPage Count 656Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 982gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 38mm -
Arthurian Romances by Chretien
RRP: £14.99£12.14Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: £25.00£17.90Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost in Plain English by Professor John Milton 9780963962157
RRP: £13.30£12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963962157Author Professor John MiltonFormat PaperbackImprint New Arts LibraryPublisher New Arts LibraryWeight(grams) 513g -
The Divine Comedy by Clive James
RRP: £16.99£11.87'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time - the greater part of a lifetime - preparing my instruments.' The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive... -
The Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780140422306
RRP: £16.99£12.28Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars... -
Coronaverses by Armando Iannucci
RRP: £10.99£4.76Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life For which we give plenty... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781784870577
RRP: £10.99£7.77Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy.High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a...