Homer on Life and Death
By: Jasper Griffin
4.02
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, in…
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1. The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
By: M.T. Clanchy , Héloïse d'Argenteuil , Pierre Abélard , Betty Radice
3.69
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
The story of the relationship between Abélard and Héloïse is one of the world’s most celebrated and… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"It is sometimes dangerous to have too much merit."-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
"Jealousy can easily believe the most terrible things."-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
"How fatal sometimes are the consequences of curiosity!"-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
"Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love."-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
2. Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remar… read more
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- poetry
- classics
3. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
4. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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- classics
5. Archaic and Classical Greek Art
By: Robin Osborne
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This new account of what happened in Greece from c.800 to 323 BC shows how sculptors and painters r… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
6. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
7. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
8. Ancient Mystery Cults
By: Walter Burkert
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a l… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
9. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
10. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
11. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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12. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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- classics
13. Daphnis and Chloe
By: Paul Turner , Longus
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more
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- classics
14. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
15. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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16. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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- classics
"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
17. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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- classics
"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
18. War and the Iliad
By: Simone Weil , Hermann Broch , Christopher E.G. Benfey , Rachel Bespaloff
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
War and the Iliadis a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and… read more
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19. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
20. The Details
By: Ia Genberg
3.90
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more
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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."-Ia Genberg, The Details
21. Homer on Life and Death
By: Jasper Griffin
4.02
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, in… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- history
- nonfiction
- literary criticism
