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  • The Complete Fables of La Fontaine

    A New Translation in Verse

    Illustrated by Edward Sorel ...
    Series series Arcade Classics
    In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine’s deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into ... Read more

    18,33 €

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  • The Penelopiad

    Series series Canons
    Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder. ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • Lavinia

    "A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. It is an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story.” —Cleveland Plain DealerNational Book Award–winning literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin reimagines Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid through the eyes and voice of Lavinia, Aeneas' last wife.In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he i ... Read more

    9,11 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aesop's Fables

    by By Aesop ...
    Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic mediums.In Classical times ... Read more

    2,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Divine Comedy

    ‘Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time – the greater part of a lifetime – preparing my instruments.’The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s vivid translation – his life’s work and decades in the making – presents Dante’s entire epic poem in a single song.While many poets and ... Read more

    13,98 €

  • Aesop\'s Fables

    by Aesop ...
    Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of short stories that have been cherished for centuries. Believed to have been created by Aesop, a storyteller from ancient Greece, these fables use animals and inanimate objects as characters to convey valuable moral lessons. Each tale is brief yet impactful, making it easy to understand and remember. ... Read more

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  • The Odyssey

    by Gareth Hinds ...
    Fresh from his triumphs in the Trojan War, Odysseus, King of Ithaca, wants nothing more than to return home to his family. Instead, he offends the sea god, Poseidon, who dooms him to years of shipwreck and wandering. Battling man-eating monsters, violent storms, and the supernatural seductions of sirens and sorceresses, Odysseus will need all his strength and cunning--and a little help from Mount ... Read more

    9,54 €

  • Aesop's Fables. Illustrated: Four Illustrated Versions. 387 Fables. (Mobi Classics)

    by Aesop ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.TABLE OF CONTENTS:Aesop's ... Read more

    5,18 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baby's Own Aesop (Mobi Classics)

    The Baby's Own Aesopby Aesop and Walter Crane, Illustrated by Walter CraneBeing the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals TABLE OF CONTENTS: PrefaceThe Fox & The Grapes The Cock & The Pearl The Wolf and the Lamb The Wind & The Sun King Log & King Stork The Frightened Lion The Mouse & The Lion The Married Mouse Hercules & The Waggoner The Lazy Housemaids The Snake & The File The Fox & The ... Read more

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  • W.B. Yeats Collected Poems (Illustrated) Bare Knuckles Press Edition

    by W.B. Yeats ...
    The collected poems of W.B. Yeats, illustrated with contemporary photos of the Irish countryside, is intended as a travel companion for visitors to Ireland and Yeats country. The book is audio enabled and optimized for viewing on tablets and smartphones. A perfect read on a trip to Ireland —Stuart Auslander, Sterling City Tours FROM THE PREFACE The Bare Knuckles digital edition of W.B. Yeats’s ... Read more

    2,78 €