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The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams
RRP: £10.00£6.65From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There is something about Demi. When... -
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
RRP: £12.99£8.56A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments,... -
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
RRP: £22.00£14.79The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound... -
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 9781857151831
RRP: £20.00£14.69This edition prints all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - INFERNO, PURGATORIO and PARADISO - in the recent English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction and explanatory notes on each canto by the noted... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante
RRP: £12.99£9.09Inferno is the first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This Penguin Classics edition is translated and edited with an... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780374111199
RRP: £27.00£20.48Apologies 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... -
Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition Howell D. Chickering 9781400096220
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096220Author Howell D. ChickeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)... -
The Nibelungenlied by A. Hatto
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written 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... -
Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: £24.95£24.54"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... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £14.99£10.98An 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 Tale of the Heike by Royall Tyler 9780143107262
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic: a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. This major and groundbreaking new Penguin translation is by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji. ... -
The Inferno by Dante 9780385496988
RRP: £13.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496988Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780140268867
RRP: £16.99£14.20Homer'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... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.77Beginning 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... -
The Half-God of Rainfall Inua Ellams 9780008324803
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather... -
Metamorphosis by Ovid
RRP: £9.99£7.11Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously... -
The Divine Comedy & Paradise by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in... -
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A brilliant and beautiful book which wrestles with the scope and ache of lineage, the origin and myth and making of ourselves' - Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions 'Unlike almost anything I've read - so alive it seems to squirm to the... -
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Seamus Heaney 9780393330106
RRP: £19.99£16.86Composed 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... -
Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People by Elias Loennrot
RRP: £12.99£9.80'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 Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore by Andy Orchard
RRP: £9.99£7.11Compiled 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... -
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. by M. L. West
RRP: £24.95£23.39Cyclic verse.Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. Here is... -
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament by Nguyen Du
RRP: £9.99£7.11'An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic . . . and its perennial place in our species' efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim Allen's new translation offers clean fluidity while... -
Virgil's Aeneid by Frederick M. Keener
RRP: £14.99£10.95For his version of the Aeneid, Dryden formed a style vigorous yet refined and drew on the deep understanding of political unrest he had acquired during the Civil Wars of 1642-51 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.About the AuthorFREDERICK M. KEENER is... -
The Song of Roland Glyn Burgess 9780140445329
RRP: £9.99£7.11On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N. Sandars
RRP: £8.99£8.90Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat... -
The Iliad Homer 9780785841814
RRP: £9.99£6.44The latest addition to the Chartwell Classics series, The Iliad is the first of the two great epics of Homer and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. But to say The Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the... -
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£9.99Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and... -
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £9.99£6.64First 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... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780143039952
RRP: £14.99£10.95Literature'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... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143106296
RRP: £14.99£11.16Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold more than a million copies and become classics in their own right. With this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles introduces Virgil's Aeneid to a... -
The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem; Also with: The Skeleton in Armor, The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Luck of Edenhall, The Elected Knight, and The Children of the Lord's Supper by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9781849023405
£25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849023405Author Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
The Memorial Feast for Koekoetoey Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition by Saghimbay Orozbaq uulu
RRP: £12.99£9.09This great Central Asian epic, passed down through generations and now brought to life in a new translation, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords'I am a steel-fanged lion, a dragon ready to pounce, a mighty poplar with... -
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
RRP: £15.99£12.01One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid's sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet's own time through... -
Oyster by Michael Pedersen
RRP: £12.99£8.56Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen. From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen's unique brand of poetry captures a debauchery... -
The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard
RRP: £9.99£7.11Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East, battling giants,wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;great would... -
The Beowulf Trilogy by Christopher L. Webber 9781504083201
RRP: £26.95£20.84Read an updated translation of the classic English epic poem, and discover what happens next in the two exciting sequels, all collected here in one edition. About one and a half millennia ago, an anonymous author gave the world Beowulf, the first great... -
The Lives of the Heart: Poems by Jane Hirshfield 9780060951696
RRP: £16.99£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060951696Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781529015003
RRP: £10.99£7.51The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold... -
Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £10.99£7.77This new translation in free verse conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The Introduction sets the scene for the reader unfamiliar with Lucan and explores his relationship with earlier writers of Latin...