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Like Emily Wilson's celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aeneid-the first collaborative translation of the poem in English-is rendered in an unrhymed iambic pentameter ...
The original Japanese Cat-Lit Classic. Now published in a new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City
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The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about ...
Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells ...
When the King James translation of the Bible was first published in 1611, it was the first time that many people throughout the English-speaking world ...
This beautiful book celebrates the Japanese kabuki tradition-presenting fifteen classic tales of tragic love and fatal passion that are frequently performed on the kabuki stage ...
In Victorian England the expansion of railways changed history. Landscapes and cities were transformed and, for the first time, people travelled for miles at unimaginable ...
Dante's epic poem of the soul's journey through the afterlife remains essential reading seven centuries after its initial publication. This edition was translated ...
Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
"The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read ...
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales
A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of one of the world's most beloved ...
Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Henry V. Macbeth. A Midsummer Night's Dream. King Lear. Lovers of literature will immediately recognize these as signature works of ...
This is a distinguised collectible edition of a classic adventure story. "The Count of Monte Cristo" is considered to be Alexandre Dumas' best work. This ...
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story ...
No home library is complete without the classics! The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection brings together the essential works from Arthur Conan Doyle in an elegant ...