Literature
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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories–from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,- Author: Hansen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691195927
- Language: English
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75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know: The Fascinating Stories Behind Great Works of Art, Literature, Music and Film
$24.99 Add to cartLet Your Faith Be Moved by the Masterpieces
Art becomes a masterpiece when it stands the test of time and challenges its viewers to see the world from a new perspective. The vast legacy of human expres
- Author: Glaspey, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0802420877
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95 Add to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read But Probably Didn’t
$22.99 Add to cartA collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with fun
- Author: Atkinson, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062747851
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
$12.95 Add to cartFrankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written and one of the best-selling books of all time. It is the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist whose unbridled quest for the secret of
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: December 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1734029285
- Language: English
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Meditations
$6.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 11 1997
- ISBN10: 048629823X
- Language: English
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Life Among the Piutes: The First Autobiography of a Native American Woman: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites, Domestic and Social Moralities
$11.50 Add to cartLife Among the Paiutes is considered the “first known autobiography written by a Native American woman.” This is both an autobiographic memoir and history of the Paiute people during their first forty… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 8027333954
- Language: English
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World as Will & Idea
$12.95 Add to cartThe nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of Freud
The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the tru- Series: Everyman Paperback Classics
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0460875051
- Language: English
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World Mythology
$26.00 Add to cartThis volume offers 59 of the world’s great myths–including selections from The Iliad and the Odyssey, Beowulf, King Arthur and Quetzalcoatl. Each myth is accompanied by an introduction that offers hi
- Series: General S
- Author: Rosenberg, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0844257672
- Language: English
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
$22.00 Add to cartLearn how to be the best journalist you can be with what “could be the world’s most readable textbook” (Time Out New York).
The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to- Author: Kerrane, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0684846306
- Language: English
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Celtic Myths and Legends
$29.95 Read moreThis splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish m
- Series: Celtic, Irish
- Author: Rolleston, T. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0486265072
- Language: English
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William Shakespeare Complete Works Second Edition
$85.00 Add to cartThe newly revised, wonderfully authoritative First Folio of William Shakespeare’s Complete Works, edited by acclaimed Shakespearean scholars and endorsed by the world-famous Royal Shakespeare Company … [more below]
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2532
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593230310
- Language: English
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Past and Present
$8.94 Add to cartThomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from ou… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841086
- Language: English
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Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District
$24.95 Add to cartA true-to-life impression of Storyville, the only legally established red light district in the US
At the turn of the twentieth-century, there were hundreds of red-light districts in the United State- Author: Rose, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0817344039
- Language: English
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What about the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched “virtuoso of language and image” (Rebecca Steinit
- Author: McDermott, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849225
- Language: English
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Love Sonnets of Shakespeare
$7.95 Add to cartOnce it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotio… [more below]
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 076245458X
- Language: English
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Claridad Y Conexión / Clarity & Connection
$17.95 Read moreUna gu?a sobre la exploraci?n y liberaci?n del pasado
Una poderosa colecci?n de poes?a y prosa breve para impulsar la transformaci?n personal y profundizar nuestra conexi?n con los dem?s.
Encuentra una- Author: Pueblo, Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 6073811365
- Language: Spanish
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The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green
$21.18 Add to cartThe Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapte… [more below]
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0520303369
- Language: English
