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Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and... -
Burnt Mountain by Emily Wilson 9781685970307
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685970307Author Emily WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca by Emily Wilson 9780199926640
RRP: $58.95Booksplease Price: $47.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199926640Author Emily WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Go Bravely: Becoming the Woman You Were Created to Be by Emily Wilson Hussem 9781594718250
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594718250Author Emily Wilson HussemFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Impr -
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature Emily Wilson 9781805225850
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Brilliant ... enthralling and profoundly relevant' Salman Rushdie 'Joyful, illuminating and engaging ... required reading for anyone interested in translation' Madeline Miller How do we give... -
Hope And Dignity: Older Black Women of the South by Emily Wilson 9781566390170 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $3.48Twenty heart-felt narratives of survival and courageTwenty heart-felt narratives of survival and courageAbout the AuthorEmily Herring Wison is a writer in Wonston-Salem, North Carolina. She is... -
Crossing the Wine Dark-Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson 9781324099406
Booksplease Price: $16.32In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson-whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination-explores the complicated terrain of... -
Sincerely, Stoneheart: Unmask the Enemy’s Lies, Find the Truth That Sets You Free Emily Wilson Hussem 9781400249725
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55In the spirit of C. S. Lewis's classic The Screwtape Letters, author and speaker Emily Wilson Hussem shines a light on the lies and tactics Satan uses to burden modern women with doubt, fear,... -
Awaken My Heart: 52 Weeks of Giving Thanks and Loving Abundantly: A Yearly Devotional for Women by Emily Wilson Hussem 9781646800216
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646800216Author Emily Wilson HussemFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Impr -
The Odyssey by David Walser 9780241298794
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07The ultimate adventure retold for children!Odysseus must battle his way home from war with the Greek Gods pitted against him. But what will he find when he gets there?From the gory tale of the... -
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... -
Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22"Oedipus Tyrannos is the first Greek play many readers encounter, and this version is their ideal gateway. Emily Wilson's verse line is effortlessly graceful, whether in taut, tense dialogue... -
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... -
Oedipus Tyrranos by Sophocles
Booksplease Price: $19.08This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's superb translation of Sophocles' best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator's note and explanatory footnotes... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393417937
Booksplease Price: $11.51The 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 Iliad Homer 9781324076148
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.35When 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 Odyssey by Homer 9780393655063
Booksplease Price: $16.07This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes and book-by-book summaries... -
The Iliad (the Norton Library) by Homer 9781324102076
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22The Norton Library edition of The Iliad features the complete text of Emily Wilson's renowned 2023 translation. An elucidating introduction explores the poem's Bronze Age origins, its major themes,... -
Lysistrata by Aristophanes 9780393870831
Booksplease Price: $11.95About Aaron Poochigian's translation "Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging poet, whose lyric rhythms were recited and sung to... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780393427936
Booksplease Price: $14.41Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin's blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a "smoothly readable, accurate,... -
Today We Go Home: A Novel by Kelli Estes
Booksplease Price: $17.73"Today We Go Home shines an illuminating light on history and the female soldiers who have served this country from the Civil War to Afghanistan today. Kelli Estes passionately brings the past to... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520303362
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.13The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps,... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520293632
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.75The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps,... -
Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Ovid 9780393326420
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57Ovid's epic poem-whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages-is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers... -
Pain and Prejudice: A call to arms for women and their bodies by Gabrielle Jackson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.65An incredibly important and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women in medical and social contexts. A polemic on the state of women's health and healthcare.One in ten... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $18.69A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization... -
Discipline without Anger: A New Style of Classroom Management by Doug Campbell 9781610483421
Booksplease Price: $108.18Ever since the first schools opened their doors, teachers have struggled to find ways to successfully deal with misbehaving students. Many have found nothing but stress and frustration in their... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9781631492228
Booksplease Price: $19.00In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the... -
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MEDITERRANEE 2018 From the... -
American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton by Victoria Houseman 9780691236209
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $27.35A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical worldEdith Hamilton (1867-1963) didn't publish her first book until she was... -
Circe: The International No. 1 Bestseller - Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 by Madeline Miller 9781408890080
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $24.23SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN,... -
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $30.79A bold, transformative new translation of Ovid's classicOvid's epic poem has, with its timeless stories, inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9780871404237
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $34.60Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $20.03Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in... -
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691170275
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.09Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens,... -
Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 9780241998007
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times'Bold and totally unexpected ... I was hooked from the... -
Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels through Love, Grief and Mythology Laura Coffey 9781837995639
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75"A magical and hugely captivating journey - filled with such beauty, wonder and surprise. A simply marvellous read, hugely recommended" - Stephen FryA real-life journey through the fantastical world... -
Circe: The No. 1 Bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 9781526664587
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.23A FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and... -
Circe: The International No. 1 Bestseller - Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 by Madeline Miller
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.92The international Number One bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor...