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Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £12.99£9.09Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he... -
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
RRP: £13.99£9.60A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the... -
The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
RRP: £12.99£7.12By the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: £9.99£7.11Beginning 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 Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008465827
RRP: £20.00£14.02First 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poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts...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 <i>Beowulf</i> Manuscript: Complete Texts and <i>The Fight at Finnsburg</i> by R. D. Fulk
RRP: £29.95£23.66Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.But this volume offers something unique. For... -
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Mark Musa
RRP: £7.99£5.79The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled... -
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
RRP: £9.99£7.11Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as... -
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Benjamin R. Foster 9780393643985
£16.25This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece.Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory... -
The Popol Vuh by Michael Bazzett 9781571314680
RRP: £12.99£8.63A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitants, and no sun--only the broad sky, silent sea, and... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£23.39Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
The Solitudes by Luis de Gongora 9780143106722
£10.62An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic... -
What I Learned from Johnny Bevan by Luke Wright
RRP: £9.99£6.99What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left.At university the mercurial Johnny... -
The Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £10.99£8.23Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants,... -
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley 9780140587647
RRP: £20.00£12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Boston Book Review (Poetry) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780140587647Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House... -
The Iliad Homer 9781857150605
RRP: £16.99£12.68One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven... -
Achilleid by Publius Papinius Statius 9781624664069
RRP: £11.99£9.77"One of the most entertaining short narratives of all time, the Achilleid is a stand-alone work of compelling contemporary interest that moves with great rapidity and clarity. Its compact narrative, which encompasses a brutish childhood, an... -
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £22.00£14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451208637Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation: Bilingual Edition by Seamus Heaney 9780374537043
RRP: £17.00£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537043Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Inferno Dante 9780812970067
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970067Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes
RRP: £9.99£7.75Now in a riveting new verse translation Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica), is the only surviving full account of Jason's voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in third... -
Aeneid: Bks. 7-12: WITH Appendix Vergiliana 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... -
Odyssey: v.2 by Homer
RRP: £24.95£24.54The hero's journey home from war.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic... -
Thebaid: Bk. 8-12 by Publius Papinius Statius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of... -
Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton 9780486475639
RRP: £6.49£5.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486475639Author G. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Odes of Pindar by Cecil Bowra 9780140442090
RRP: £12.99£12.94Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece - a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's... -
Iliad by Homer 9780872203525
RRP: £16.99£16.71"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his... -
Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar
RRP: £35.00£31.57One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians... -
The Fall of Arthur by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £9.99£6.52The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends... -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 9780099595540
RRP: £8.99£6.45Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself.(I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £16.99£14.13Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9781784706784
RRP: £10.99£7.77*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE.* 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity.Gikuyu and... -
James Merrill Poems James Merrill 9781841598086
RRP: £9.99£7.11James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving,... -
Works and Days by Hesiod
RRP: £8.99£7.07'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUNICMAN AWARDA new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works... -
Seasonal Disturbances by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781784103361
RRP: £9.99£6.99Second Place winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut An Aviary of Small Birds (`technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf... -
The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer
RRP: £17.00£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525743Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
The Complete Poems of John Keats John Keats 9780679601081
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601081Author John KeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Odyssey: v.1 by Homer
RRP: £24.95£24.29The hero's journey home from war.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem... -
Ramayana by Daljit Nagra
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia. Its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld, has enchanted...