The Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels is a book of literary criticism and review about Aotearoa New Zealand fiction over the past one hundred fifty...

The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New Millennium examines pairs ...

Winner, American Independent Publishers Poetry PrizeSue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of "Canadian women's" p...

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra

The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of me...

Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in...

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine ...

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...

Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...

The Essential Metamorphoses , Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a w...

This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episod...

Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....

Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....

Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustic...