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The Metamorphoses by Ovid
RRP: $27.43$20.60One 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... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $18.85$13.33Beginning 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... -
Oyster by Michael Pedersen
RRP: $22.28$14.68Oyster 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 Story of Kullervo by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008166724
RRP: $128.65$87.94The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father. Kullervo son of... -
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley 9780140587647
RRP: $34.31$21.77Apologies 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... -
Ramayana by Daljit Nagra
RRP: $18.85$13.33The 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... -
Coming Home to Her: Poems about love, sexuality, and being human by Emily Juniper 9781697643657
RRP: $22.30$18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781697643657Author Emily JuniperFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
RRP: $24.00$16.60A 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... -
Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and Haiku by Aya Kusch
RRP: $17.14$11.65No 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 Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
RRP: $37.74$29.57The 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... -
Odyssey: v.2 by Homer
RRP: $42.80$40.72The 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... -
Double Trio: Tej Bet, So's Notice, Nerve Church: A Box Set by Nathaniel Mackey
RRP: $89.18$76.93For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial poems-"Song of the Andoumboulou" and "Mu"-that follow a mysterious, migrant "we" through the rhythms and... -
The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad by Homer
RRP: $22.28$15.59War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved... -
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. by M. L. West
RRP: $42.80$39.31Cyclic 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 Lay of Aotrou and Itroun by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008202132
RRP: $29.14$20.15Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set 'In Britain's land beyond... -
Virgil's Aeneid by Frederick M. Keener
RRP: $25.71$18.78For 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... -
Homeric Hymns: WITH Homeric Apocrypha AND Lives of Homer by Homer
RRP: $42.80$39.31Invocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard.Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess-as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down... -
The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem: An Epic Poem by Jack Mitchell
RRP: $24.00$16.90A thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry "I look not to myself but to the Force, In which all things arise and fall away." Journey to a galaxy far, far away like never before-through lyrical verse and meter... -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 9780099595540
RRP: $15.42$11.06Do 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... -
The Inferno by Dante 9780385496988
RRP: $24.00$21.70Apologies 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 *... -
What I Learned from Johnny Bevan by Luke Wright
RRP: $17.14$11.99What 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 Iliad by Homer 9781857150605
RRP: $29.14$21.75One 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... -
The Epic of Ram: Volume 7 by Tulsidas
RRP: $51.37$39.78The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a... -
Achilleid by Publius Papinius Statius 9781624664069
RRP: $20.57$16.33"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 Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams
RRP: $17.15$11.41From 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... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: $29.14$23.69Lombardo'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 Civil War by Lucan
RRP: $42.80$39.31Epic 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 Memorial Feast for Koekoetoey Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition by Saghimbay Orozbaq uulu
RRP: $22.28$15.59This 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... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780812970067
RRP: $24.00$15.78Apologies 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... -
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
RRP: $17.14$12.20Satan 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... -
Iliad by Homer 9780872203525
RRP: $29.14$26.43"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... -
The Complete Poetry And Essential Prose Of John Milton by John Milton
RRP: $85.77$72.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642534Author John MiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 1408Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1871gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $15.42$11.08Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set 'In Britain's land beyond... -
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery by Dick Ringler
RRP: $24.00$19.81Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary. His generous Introduction, a lively yet masterly guide... -
Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton 9780486475639
RRP: $11.13$9.13Apologies 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)... -
Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes
RRP: $17.14$13.16Now 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... -
Homer by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: $20.57$14.46Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By... -
Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar
RRP: $60.04$54.15One 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 Aeneid by Virgil 9781529015010
RRP: $18.85$14.12The Aeneid - thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure - has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and... -
Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756696Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...