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The Rise And Fall of Athens
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? How does...
Fall of the Roman Republic
This revised edition features a new introduction by Robin Seager, putting the lives in the context of Plutarch's biography and literary career, discussing and comparing the individual lives, and analysing...
The Age of Alexander
Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and...
The Makers of Rome
An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives...
Plutarch's Lives: Of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades And Coriolanus, Demosthenes And Cicero, Caesar And Antony
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the grand stage of ancient Greece and Rome, Plutarch's Lives presents the parallel biographies of history's most towering figures — statesmen, orators, and conquerors —...
Makers Of Rome
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of classical literature, Makers of Rome presents nine of Plutarch's...
Plutarch's Lives Of Illustrious Men
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding tearing in some places but pages still intact.Few works have shaped the Western understanding of the ancient world as...
On Sparta
A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society. Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise...
Plutarch Selected Lives: From The Parallel Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of antiquity's most enduring and celebrated works, Plutarch Selected Lives presents a curated collection drawn from the...
Ideas & Influences of the Ancient World Bargain Book Box
Ideas & Influences of the Ancient World Bargain Book Box The men and women who built the ancient world — and the fights that tore it apart. Inside: Caesar and...
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world The...
Fall Of The Roman Republic: Six Lives By Plutarch
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFall Of The Roman Republic: Six Lives By Plutarch presents a compelling collection of...
Prefaces And Prologues To Famous Books: With Introductions And Notes
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary scholarship, Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes presents a carefully curated anthology of...
House of Eliott
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Middlemarch
George Eliot's masterful classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are...
Middlemarch
Vintage Classics brings you one of the most admired, best loved and most influential novels in the history of English literature Discover one of the most admired, best loved and...
Fall Of The Roman Republic: Six Lives
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of history's most dramatic transformations stands a cast of titans — Marius, Sulla,...
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 Odyssey
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life. The first great adventure story in the Western canon, the Odyssey is a...
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
A beautifully packaged, illustrated collection of twenty rediscovered early short stories by award-winning and bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER - A truly unmissable, beautifully...
Middlemarch
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search...
T. S. Eliot
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets...
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...
T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage
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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: good; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. Usual shelf-wear. Few poets have provoked as fierce, as sustained, and...
The Iliad
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITY A stunning new translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss...
George Eliot
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Usual shelf-wear. Faded spine. Few authors...
Middlemarch: In Two Volumes; Volume Two
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWidely regarded as the greatest novel in the English language, Middlemarch immerses the reader in the intricate social...
Poetry of T. S. Eliot
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Author: D. E. S. MaxwellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Routledge, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic text offers a comprehensive critical analysis of T....
The Letters Of T. S. Eliot: Volume I, 1898–1922
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as T. S. Eliot, and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I:...
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction
Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of...
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted HughesPoet, dramatist, critic and...
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES top ten bestseller - twenty-one rediscovered early short stories from the legendary global bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. From one of the bestselling science fiction and...
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1898-1927 (Three-Volume Set)
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Author: T.S. Eliot; [Valerie Eliot, Hugh Haughton and John Haffenden]Binding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 2009; 2012Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection features the correspondence of T.S. Eliot...
Impressions Of Theophrastus Such
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With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest George Eliot scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism and...
Meditations
A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD...
Discourses and Selected Writings
New translation for Penguin Classics Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated...
Plutoshine
Author: Lucy Kissick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A mysterious accident on Pluto has left one girl mute, her father comatose, and her brother damaged and altered. But their...
Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
The thirteenth Discworld novel - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans. Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry...
Pompey Elliott's Left Hand Man (SIGNED)
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Author: Kristin SchneiderBinding: SoftbackPublished: Self Published, 2015Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book chronicles the life and experiences of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Denehy during World...
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917
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This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios....
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929
Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and...