This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...

This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus ...

Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...

This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval...

The rise of literary fiction in medieval Europe has been a hotly debated topic for at least two decades. Important progress has been made, but diff...

28 all-occasion readings. Works of a variety of writers have been adapted: Thurber, Shakespeare, Dickens, Grahame, and many other writers, journali...

Christine Lavant (1915-1973), one of Austria's most famous yet obscure 20th century poets, wrote these memoirs during a voluntary six-week stay in ...

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 26 1802 -- 22 May 1885) is recognised as the most influential Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often ident...

Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...

This book gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for public...

This is a daughter's poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and t...

This complete verse translation of Ovid's classical work is illustrated with extensive notes and an index and glossary. To help the reader contend ...

Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and liter...

This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...

This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...

Award-winning playwright Collin Doyle has crafted three gripping plays that display a keen understanding of human relationships, both functional an...

This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of cha...