Epic

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441425279Author Luis GuarnerFormat PaperbackImprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 272g

From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Medium uses language as a bridge across experience, sensibility, and time.These deeply resonant and performative poems share the lives and perspectives of women who - in their roles as biological, physical, or...

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Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed...

In Zanzibar, in 2008, George Elliott Clarke began to write his "Canticles," an epic poem treating the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Imperial and colonial conquest, and the resistance to all these evils. That is the subject of Canticles I (MMXVI) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581772104Author Mikhail HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Station Hill Press,U.S.Publisher Station Hill Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 6g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513206349Author Sir Walter ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971255Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977264Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Apologies 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...

Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the...

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many of the poet's early important works, The Wind Among the Reeds provides a rich sampling of Yeats' poems, illuminating his influence on the Celtic Twilight, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636408415Author Bhavini BhargavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams)...

In this Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes. Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium CE, Beowulf is an Old English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997734324Author K C KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Traveling ElephantPublisher Traveling ElephantWeight(grams) 181g

In the 1930s, Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, two pioneering scholars of oral poetry, conducted adventurous fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and northern Albania, collecting singularly important examples of Albanian epic song. Wild Songs, Sweet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784350925Author Francisco BalagtasFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

"This is a wonderful new edition of the Poetic Edda. It captures the language, vitality, and rhythms of the original."-Jesse Byock, PhD, UCLA Gods, giants, the undead, dwarves, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, and a giant wolf are just some of...

"It is always a real pleasure to read a translation which adheres to one basic, important principle, to reflect faithfully what the poet says. Professor Cook's translation does just that.... This is a literal translation, following the original line for...

The first complete English translation of one of the great court epics of Sanskrit literature.Kiratarjuniya, or Arjuna and the Hunter, is one of the great court epics of the Sanskrit literary canon. Written by the sixth-century poet Bharavi, it is also...

A thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Parijatapaharanamu, which he...

The 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...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983300229Author Frederick TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint The Ilium PressPublisher The Ilium Press

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353368579Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 25mm

The 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...

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Sunjata Keita was the founder of one of the greatest empires of Western Africa. These two epic accounts of his life portray a greedy, slow-witted child - said to have crawled until the age of seven - who grew up as prophecy foretold to become a mighty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615872629Author Jennifer ReeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Saint James Infirmary BooksPublisher Saint James Infirmary BooksWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692876053Author Zachry K DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Zachry K. DouglasPublisher Zachry K. DouglasWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648860686Author Kathryn PurnellFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint J R GarranPublisher J R GarranWeight(grams) 222g

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Don Juan is a satirical poem inspired by the Spanish libertine, who's known for his romantic trysts, frequent adventures and salacious activities throughout the land. George Gordon reinvents the character, by subverting expectations and changing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578385167Author Billy J BarnumFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Billy J. BarnumPublisher Billy J. BarnumWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983300298Author Frederick TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Ilium PressPublisher The Ilium PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645184808Author Stephen StockwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Publicious Pty LtdPublisher Publicious Pty LtdWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983300267Author Eric Charles HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint The Ilium PressPublisher The Ilium Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995352056Author George Gordon ByronFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Jonathon BestPublisher Jonathon BestWeight(grams) 485g