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The Coalwood Way: A Memoir
In this "irresistible" memoir "as compelling and rousing as a NASA liftoff" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys takes us deeper into the...
The Ambassador's Son
It is 1943, and the struggle against Japan rages across the steaming, jungle-choked Solomon Islands. As the fate of the South Pacific hangs precariously in the balance, Lieutenant David Armistead...
The Odyssey
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 wealth, poverty and power; about...
The Iliad & The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Author: HomerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 752 pagesPublished: Sterling Juvenile, United States, 2018Homer's two epics of the ancient world, The Iliad and The Odyssey, tell stories as riveting today as...
The Iliad
The greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic...
The Iliad
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of...
The Odyssey
Penguin Classics relaunch The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by...
The Wrath of Achilles
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles- godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks....
The Odyssey
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy...
The Iliad
One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and...
The Iliad
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post )-critics lauded it...
The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years....
The Odyssey
Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature's...
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of...
Why Homer Matters: A History
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Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious.--James Wood,...
Homer and His Iliad
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy....
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku
In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. Now, in One Hundred Great Books in...
Mysterious Britain
Throughout the length and breadth of Britain, ancient tribes, druids, Celtic saints, medieval knights, and eighteenth-century landowners have bequeathed future generations a wealth of extraordinary sights, structures, and landmarks. Homer...
The Upside of Down
Shows in lucid and compelling terms how breakdown looms when a society outgrows its capacity to sustain itself. Homer-Dixon argues we are equipped to avert disaster. Armed with hindsight, increasingly...
The Battle for Troy: An Adaptation of Homer's 'Iliad'
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The Iliad Of Homer
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew works in the Western canon have commanded the awe and reverence of Homer's The Iliad, and...
Getting over Homer: A Novel
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Getting Over Homer, a "coming of middle age" novel, takes a look at heartbreak, aging, the search for home, and the madness of love - in a story that follows...
Homer & Langley
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Homer and Langley
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