Translated with an Introduction by E.V. Rieu Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
This is the only full account that has come down to us of Jason's voyage in quest of the Golden Fleece. Written in the third century B.C., itmet with derision in the poet's native ... more.
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the greatest of the heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the third millennium BC. Togeth ... more.
Plutarch Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the r ... more.
H.G. Wells Penguin Classics Retail Price: $7.00 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $1.01
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common near London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly kille ... more.
Dante Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $3.51
Taking two threads of a story which everybody knew and loved, the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the underworld to find his lost lady. Dante combined them ... more.
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Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medici ... more.
Translated with an Introduction by Philip Vellacott Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, and The Persians, presented here in verse translation, demonstrate that reason, not violence, is the proper principle of civilized l ... more.
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.49 You Save: $4.51
One of the most intriguing conquests in the New World, this first-person account affords us an absorbing view of the Spanish overthrow of Montezuma's Aztec Empire. A soldier participating in the overthrow, Bernal D ... more.
Jean DeJoinville Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Few events in history have been more coloured by romantic imagination than the Crusades. The two famous Old French chronicles in this volume were composed by soldiers who took part in the Holy Wars. Villehardoin's C ... more.
Philip Vellacott Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
The last of three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversial, Euripides was the first playwright to use the chorus as a commentator; the first to put ... more.
Pierre Caron Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
It is said of Beaumarchais (1732-99) that he had only one character--himself--and that Figaro epitomizes all his creator's vices. This does not seem to have stood in the way of his success. If The ... more.
Brian Stone Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
In a very full selection about half the space is devoted to short poems; religious and secular lyrics as well as moral, political, polemical and comic verse. The other half is taken up with short narrative poems, among them some ... more.
Cornelius Tacitus Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
The end of Nero's reign was the beginning of the reign of four emperors in a single year: the martinet Glaba; the conspirator Otho; the dandy Vitellius; and the hedonist Vespasian, who would eventually establish the Flavian dynasty. ... more.
Fran<\#231>oise Dunand & Christiane Zivie-Coche Cornell University Press Retail Price: $45.00 Sale Price: $36.99 You Save: $8.01
In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Frangoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptian ... more.
Geoffrey of Monmouth Penguin Classics Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $6.01
The influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History can be seen in the works of Shakespeare, Malory, Dryden and Tennyson. Comprised of history, myth and legend, Geoffrey tells the story of Britian from its ... more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
All these plays reflect the invigorating and unorthodox way in which Seneca used the spoken word. The tragedies of Seneca represents a curious branch of Latin literature. Taken from Greek drama, their legendary ... more.
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The perfect holiday companions! These award-winning on-the-spot visual guides are bursting with information and will help to make your trip hassle-free and pleasurable This Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you get the most from your stay in Bud ... more.
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Compact and easy to use, this book provides tourists and business travelers with the neccessary phrases needed to get around in a foreign country. All the essentials are covered, including days, months, seasons, numbers, transportaion, shopping, m ... more.
Julius Caesar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Caesar's defeat of Pompey in the Civil War (49-56 BC) paved the way for his dictatorship, his assasination, a decade of chaos and the emergence of hi ... more.
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Compact and easy to use, this book provides tourists and business travelers with the neccessary phrases needed to get around in a foreign country. All the essentials are covered, including days, months, seasons, numbers, transportaio ... more.
Pindar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece - a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely phi ... more.
Einhard & Notker the Stammerer Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Einhard offers a factual account of Charlemange's personal life and his achievements in warfare, learning art, and statesmanship, while Notker's anecdotal approach presents Charlemagne as a near-legendary fi ... more.
Christopher Columbus Penguin Classics Retail Price: $13.00
This enthralling volume includes Columbus's letters and logbook and remains the definitive primary source on his voyages to Cuba, Haiti/Hispaniola, Jamaica, Trinidad, and the Central American mainland. ... more.
Alan S. Fredrick Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
This edition contains perhaps the earliest and most elemental version of the tragic legend of Tristan and Yseult in a distinguished prose translation. Alan S. Fredrick summarizes missing episodes and includes a translation ... more.
Translated with an Introduction by Hermann Palsson Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
All seven stories in this volume exemplify the outstanding qualities of realistic fiction in medieval Iceland. They date from the 13th century and fall into two distinct groups. Hrafnkel's Sag ... more.
J.R. Hamilton Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.49 You Save: $4.51
Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account we have, even though it was written over 400 years after Alexander's death. A military commander himself, Arrian had unique insights into the life of the wo ... more.
Arthur Cooper Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
LiPo,a legendary carouser, was the itinerate poet who is unsurpassed in the scope of his fanciful imagination and who soars to sublime heights in his descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. He has been called 'the ... more.
Plutarch's Lives of the great Greek statesmen and men of action were designed to pair with the now better-known Roman portraits and contain many of his finest descriptions of war, revolution and heroic achievement.
Translated with an Introduction by N.J. Dawood Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00
Relive the fables tales of Scheherazade as she spins tales of classic Orientalist fantasy. Some of her stories have become common knowledge, such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, ... more.
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