Overview :Trouble is brewing at the home of the hero Odysseus, who has spent years fighting in the Trojan Wars and is now captive of the beautiful nym... Read More
Overview :"This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional h... Read More
Overview :When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unprete... Read More
Overview :The legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is one of the most famous folk tales in history, with Merlin the Wizard... Read More
Overview :WARNING Online PDF file sharing of this book is illegal and will be prosecuted. The first and still the best John Milton's overwhelming mas... Read More
Overview :An inventive translation of a great historical epic, and the oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolian language, recounting the turbul... Read More
Overview :One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the ... Read More
Overview :The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreatio... Read More
Overview :After years of fierce battle, the Emperor Charlemagne's army is finally on the brink of victory over the Saracens in Spain. Having proposed ... Read More
Overview :Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are now available for the first time in... Read More
Overview :The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its repre... Read More
Overview :Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd an... Read More
Overview :Coming Home to Her is a celebration of being human. It is a coming out journey, an exploration of sexuality, femininity, loving, and being l... Read More
Overview :A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence... Read More
Overview :&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Metamorphoses&&L/I&&R, by &&LSTRONG&&ROvid&&L/B&&R&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&... Read More
Overview :One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic p... Read More
Overview :This edition gives a side-by-side parallel translation of Dante's Divine Comedy using Longfellow's translation. The Divine Comedy is an epic... Read More