Troy (Paperback) /anglais
By: FITTON LESLEY
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homers Iliad and Virgils Aeneid. These h…
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1. 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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- ancient
"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
2. The Seventh Function of Language
By: Laurent Binet
3.76
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the p… read more
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"The slalom race of syntax!"-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
"He liked cock, this intellectual!"-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
"The homosexuals are the new Jesuits."-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
"What would you do if you ruled the world?"-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
3. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search
By: Martin Sixsmith
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoma… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Heartsnatcher
By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more
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5. Greek Religion
By: John Raffan , Walter Burkert
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produ… read more
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6. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.37
Format: 414 pages,
Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more
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7. Bonjour tristesse
By: Françoise Sagan
3.72
Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback
(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more
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"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
8. Perrault's Fairy Tales
By: Charles Perrault , Gustave Doré
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passeby the great Charles … read more
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9. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
10. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. 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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"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
13. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- ancient
- history
- nonfiction
14. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
15. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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- ancient
- history
- nonfiction
16. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
17. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
By: Eleanor Parker
4.17
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
18. A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
By: Toby Wilkinson
3.97
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptolo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome
By: Philip Matyszak
4.02
Format: 208 pages, ebook
In the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit a… read more
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- history
20. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
By: Irving Finkel
4.03
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial.In The First Ghost… read more
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- history
"It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, na…"-Irving Finkel, The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
21. Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (Oxford History of Art)
By: Mary Beard
4.10
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- history
- classical studies
22. Greek and Roman Mosaics
By: Umberto Pappalardo
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Mosaic has been called “painting for eternity,” and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity … read more
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- art
23. Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
By: Neil MacGregor
4.30
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assum… read more
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"En todos los casos, tanto en política como en religión, la gente define su propia identidad."-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
"La muerte representa tan solo una división en el seno de la comunidad, no el límite de ésta."-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
"A medida que avanza nuestro conocimiento del mundo físico, disminuye nuestra necesidad de que la religión nos lo explique."-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
"Así como cualquier fuego se extingue si nadie vela de forma adecuada de él y lo alimenta, del mismo modo las instituciones de una sociedad se desmoronan si no se reparan y renuevan de manera continua…"-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
24. Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide
By: Christina Riggs
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the ancient world, if you needed a love charm, wanted to contact your dead wife, or needed the a… read more
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- history
25. Troy (Paperback) /anglais
By: FITTON LESLEY
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homers Iliad and Virgils Aeneid. These h… read more
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- art
- history
- classical studies
- ancient
- nonfiction
26. The World of Stonehenge
By: Duncan Garrow
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Stonehenge is one of the best known, but most misunderstood, monuments in the world. Contrary to co… read more
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- history
27. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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- ancient
"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
28. Nero: The Man Behind the Myth
By: Thorsten Opper
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
One of the best known and simultaneously most notorious figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54–… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- ancient
"I am not setting out here to rehabilitate Nero as a blameless man. But I have come to the conclusion that almost every single thing we think we know about him is wrong."-Thorsten Opper, Nero: The Man Behind the Myth
"Our goal here is to show that this, however popular, image is actually based on very, very biased accounts and therefore we should challenge it. The Nero story is about how we should approach informa…"-Thorsten Opper, Nero: The Man Behind the Myth
29. Defining beauty: the body in Ancient Greek art
By: Ian Jenkins
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This book accompanies the British Museum exhibition Defining Beauty: the body in Ancient Greek art. read more
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- nonfiction
- history
30. Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds (British Museum, 1)
By: Franck Goddio
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating showcase of some of the ancient world’s richest archaeological finds in recent years … read more
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- history
