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The Iliad by Homer 9780140444445
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Iliad & Odyssey by Homer
RRP: $41.98$30.47Apologies 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 -
The Iliad by Homer 9780141394657
RRP: $39.88$29.42A 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 Odyssey by Homer 9780141192444
RRP: $35.68$26.63Part 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 Odyssey by Homer 9780140449112
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780140424393
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $39.88$29.42Part 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 Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George
RRP: $20.98$14.93The 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... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780140447897
RRP: $20.98$15.77'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 Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008465827
RRP: $42.00$29.44First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781324001805
RRP: $63.00$54.29When 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: $35.68$26.63One 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... -
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
RRP: $52.50$37.84Dick 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... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780199537372
RRP: $18.88$13.55The 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... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $27.28$17.98Composed 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... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780140268867
RRP: $35.68$27.99Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin... -
Arthurian Romances by Chretien
RRP: $31.48$24.23Taking 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... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140447941
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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 Nibelungenlied by A. Hatto
RRP: $27.28$24.49Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: $20.98$14.93Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
Hesiod and Theognis by Hesiod
RRP: $20.98$14.93Together 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 Iliad by Homer
RRP: $27.28$19.09A 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... -
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Seamus Heaney 9780393330106
RRP: $41.98$35.64Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the... -
Aednan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson 9781805331315
RRP: $42.00$28.27In 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... -
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $20.98$13.94First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic... -
Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: $52.40$49.85"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC 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... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780374111199
RRP: $73.50$38.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Costa Book Awards (Poetry) 1999 and Costa Book Awards (Book of the Year) 1999 and ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780374111199Author Seamus... -
Aeneid by Virgil 9780872207318
RRP: $33.58$27.43Long 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 Odyssey by Homer 9780143039952
RRP: $31.48$23.00Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance, Homer's ancient Greek epic The Odyssey is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin... -
Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People by Elias Loennrot
RRP: $27.28$20.37'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York TimesSharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of a nation... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393356250
RRP: $31.48$23.86The 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... -
Beowulf: a new feminist translation of the epic poem by Maria Headley
RRP: $20.98$14.07A 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 Secret History of the Mongols by Christopher P. Atwood
RRP: $27.28$19.09A 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,... -
The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore by Andy Orchard
RRP: $20.98$14.93Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Voelsung family, the Hel-ride... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $31.48$23.00An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original, this Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Italian with an introduction by Mark Musa.This vigorous... -
The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $157.50$104.90Collector's slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393089059
RRP: $67.18$59.07The 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: $39.88$29.42The 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... -
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Barbara Reynolds
RRP: $39.88$29.42One 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... -
The Divine Comedy by Clive James
RRP: $35.68$24.93'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...