Une anthologie exceptionnelle reunissant cinq monuments de la poesie epique occidentale : Homere, Virgile, Dante, Shakespeare et Milton. Des voyages heroiques de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssee aux visions de l'au-dela de la Divine Comedie et du Paradis perdu, cette collection retrace des siecles d'imagination poetique.

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

Journey across centuries of epic poetry with some of the most influential voices in world literature. The Epic Poems Anthology brings together major epic works associated with Homer, Virgil, Marcel Proust, and John Milton, with Samuel Butler contributing as translator. From the legendary heroes of ancient Greece and Rome to Milton's monumental vision of Paradise, temptation, rebellion, and redemption, this collection explores the enduring themes that have shaped epic literature for centuri...

Make the Christmas season brighter with a wonderful collection of stories, poems, and timeless holiday tales. The Big Book of Christmas brings together a generous selection of classic Christmas stories, festive poems, fairy tales, and seasonal writings by various authors, offering hours of holiday reading for the whole family. From snowy winter nights and cozy firesides to family gatherings, unexpected adventures, acts of kindness, and magical Christmas encounters, these stories capture th...

"Of Man's first disobedience" begins one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. In Paradise Lost, John Milton creates a monumental work of epic poetry that retells the biblical story of humanity's fall from grace. Through powerful imagery, elevated language, and unforgettable characters, Milton explores the origins of temptation, disobedience, suffering, and the human condition. Drawing upon biblical tradition and classical epic conventions, the poem follows the cosmic conflic...

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." In Paradise Lost, John Milton transforms the story of Adam and Eve, their temptation, and their fall from grace into one of the greatest epics ever written — a sweeping tale of freedom, rebellion, and redemption. Through dazzling verse and profound imagination, Milton presents Satan's bold revolt against God, the creation of the world, and humanity's first disobedience — exploring questions of morality, divine justice, and the meaning of f...

A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature. This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this collection traces the evolution of a literary tradition that shaped the modern world. Organized chron...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets...

War in Heaven. A fallen angel who refuses to be small. A garden, a forbidden tree, and the single choice that changes everything for humanity. John Milton's epic doesn't just retell Genesis — it turns Satan into one of literature's most magnetic, quotable, and disturbingly persuasive characters, then dares you to notice how much you understood his side of the argument. Nearly 400 years on, Paradise Lost still sets the bar for what an epic poem can do: cosmic scale, real psychological depth...

Journey through some of the greatest poetic achievements in literary history with this remarkable collection of timeless classics. Discover "The Epic Poems Anthology," an inspiring collection that brings together celebrated works by legendary authors including Homer, Virgil, John Milton, and others. Spanning centuries of literary tradition, this anthology showcases the enduring power of epic poetry and classic verse through unforgettable narratives, legendary heroes, and profound reflectio...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...