Beowulf (probably composed in the 8th century A.D.) is our only native English heroic epic. It is written by a Christian poet addressing a Christian audience, but in the figure of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior, and his struggles ag ... more.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Shen Fu Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Shen Fu's reflections in his life as a magistrate's secretary, a loving husband,a painter and an unsuccessful tradesman were written in 1809 and have been a Chinese favorite ever since. Many themes explored in the memoirs give ... more.
Wolfram Von Eschenbach Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The Parzival of Wofram von Eschenbach, one of the world's greatest narrative poems, is the re-creation and completion of the story of the Holy Grail that was left unfinished by its initiator, Chretien de Troyes. Set ... more.
Victor Hugo Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put u ... more.
Julius Caesar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars, although based on fact, also served to impress his contemporaries and justify himself to his enemies. The earliest eyewitness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous mem ... more.
The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of hte world, and the cornerstone of Western culture.
Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
By the time he was fifty Tolstoy had already written War and Peace and Anna Karenin, novels that would assure him of immortality. He had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man ... more.
Troyes Chretien de, Chretien de Troyes, Chretien Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $5.51
This volume contains new prose translations of his five romances: Erec and Enide, which explores the dilemma of the knight who must strive to reconcile the demands of both his honour and his l ... more.
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Eyrbyggja Saga is prominent in the great group of medieval Icelandic sagas that Magnus Magnusson has called 'historical novels - the first novels to be written in Europe.'
Mixing realism with wild Gothic imagination, history with eerie ... more.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Netochka Nezanova - 'Nameless Nobody' - recounts her formative years in vivid, anguished detail. After her father's death, her mother marries a failed musician, who believes himself to be a neglected genius. On the edge of ins ... more.
The four years Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp were nasty, brutish and long, the most agonizing of his life. No other novel depicts the prison coffin with more immediacy than The House of the Dead. Its docu ... more.
Plutarch Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $3.01
Whether he is offering abstract speculations or practical ethics, reflections on the benefits of military versus intellectual glory, or the reasoning powers of animals, Plutarch's encyclopedic writings form a treasure trove of ancient wisdom. ... more.
Giorgio Vasari Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Vasari's original vision of the arts which he sees the artist as divinely inspired, permeates this second volume as much as the first. Although at times inaccurate, the Lives have a striking immediacy conveyed in the c ... more.
Erasmus of Rotterdam was the greatest of the Renaissance humanists. Praise of Folly, first published in 1511, is both his best-known work and the best introduction to his thought.
Although Erasmus claimed it was written in a w ... more.
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Virgil's epic vividly recounts Aeneas's tortuous journey after the Trojan War and the struggles he faced as he lay the foundations for the greatest continental empire. Rendered into a vigorous and refined English by the most important man of letters of the ... more.
In one of the most perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, Aristotle examines the literature of his time, describing the origins of poetry as an imitative art and drawing attention to the distinctions between ... more.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Random House, Inc Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich follows Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, known to his warders as S-854, through a brutally cold January day in a Stalinist work camp in Siberia. In this masterpiec ... more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Included in this volume are the dialogues On the Shortness of Life and On Tranquility of Mind, which are eloquent classic statements of Stoic ideals of fortitude and self-reliance. This selection also features extracts f ... more.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Sometimes referred to as the 'Tenth Muse of New Spain,' Sor Juana, a 17th-century nun, was a literary virtuoso---penning romances, satires, epigrams, religious and secular sonnets, dramas, and a ... more.
Hermann Palsson Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
They tell of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning; but although they paint the traditional colourful picture of the Viking warrior making raids in his dragon-headed longboat, these stories ar ... more.
Mikhail Lermontov Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Described as a dangerous man by one of his young female victims, Pechorin, the hero of Lermontov's novel, outraged many critics with his immortal behaviour when the book was published in 1840. A Hero of Our Time is a li ... more.
Emile Zola Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
Germinal portrays with stunning realism the struggle of the poor miners in France, the hardships and cruelties of poverty, and brutality towards animals and mankind. Ex-machinist Etienne Laniter lands in one of the mines when he is unable to ... more.
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