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...

Saddle up for nine voices who defined the American frontier: James Fenimore Cooper's frontier legend, Bret Harte's mining-camp wit, Washington Irving's early wilderness tales, and rising talents like Andy Adams, B.M. Bower, and Dane Coolidge, gathered here from A to Z. Cattle drives, outlaws, homesteaders, and the vast open range come alive across ten stories that helped shape an entire genre of American storytelling. This Chronicle Vault edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in ...

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...

Ulysses. The hero of Homer’s great poem was known to the Greeks under the name of Odysseus. He was king of the pastoral islands of Ithaca and Dulichium. Most of the petty Greek chieftains became suitors for the hand of the beautiful Helen, and Ulysses was among the number, but withdrew when he realised the smallness of his chances. He then married Penelope, the daughter of Icarius, and at the same time joined with the other unsuccessful lovers of Helen in a sworn league for her future prot...

Homer's "The Odyssey" is the classic Greek poem that recounts the adventurer Odysseus's arduous journey home after the Trojan War and the trials that delay his return to Ithaca.Along the way, he encounters storms, monsters, enchantresses, hostile gods, and the seductive forgetfulness of distant lands. Meanwhile, his wife, Penelope, resists persistent suitors, while his son, Telemachus, matures into courage and leadership.This edition presents two influential English transla...

The wrath of Achilles, the fall of heroes and the will of the gods – The Iliad is Homer's towering epic of the Trojan War, published here in Alexander Pope's celebrated verse translation.Set in the final weeks of the ten-year siege of Troy, The Iliad follows the Greek champion Achilles, whose quarrel with his commander Agamemnon drives him from the battlefield and sends the war spinning toward the duel that will decide the fate of Hector and of Tr...

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Step into the legendary world of ancient Greece with The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, two of the greatest epic poems ever written and foundational works of Western literature. In The Iliad, readers are transported to the final days of the Trojan War, where honor, pride, rage, loyalty, and destiny collide. At the heart of the epic stands Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Greeks, whose anger shapes the course of the war and changes the lives of kings...

While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.

This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa:...

Set during the final weeks of the Trojan War, this monumental epic follows a conflict driven by wounded pride, personal honor, and the devastating consequences of anger. At its center stands Achilles, the greatest warrior in the Greek army, whose dispute with King Agamemnon leads him to withdraw from combat. His absence shifts the balance of the war and exposes his companions to terrible danger. As the fighting intensifies, the poem moves between the camps of the Greeks and the defenders o...

Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy, Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over his fate, leaving the Ithacans to believe that he has died. The Odyssey is attributed to the poet Homer and, after its companion poem the Iliad, is the second-oldest surviving work of Western literature. Composed sometime ...