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The Canterbury Tales (stage version by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781854598837 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $6.73A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature. This two-play adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales encompasses all 23 stories... -
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have... -
The Night Fountain: Selected Early Poems by Salvatore Quasimodo 9781904614050
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.36'Salvatore Quasimodo was born-and lived-through historical tragedies which impressed his mind for ever. What one hears in his lines are the tears of mankind and its wail. Sonzogni and Dawe have... -
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan 9780300276770
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.73A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be... -
Imperium: adapted from the Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris by Mike Poulton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78Cicero, the greatest orator of his age, devotes all his energy and cunning to preserve the rule of law, and defend Rome's Republic against the predatory attacks of political rivals, discontented... -
The Iliad Homer 9781324076148
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.75When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, The Washington... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower 9780198609582 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.34How did the ancient Greeks and Romans differ in their attitude towards alcoholism? What role did dance play in religious rituals? What did the ancient Greeks eat? Why was emperor Nero popular with... -
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard 9780198793113
Booksplease Price: $150.95Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to... -
The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.91We all keep secrets. Even from ourselves.'A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY'Elegant, sinister, stylish' CHRIS WHITAKER'Grips from start to finish'... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393089059
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $36.17The 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... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393356250
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.95The 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...