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...

It's a Hell of a Job, But Someone Has to Do ItAt the corner of No Hope & Vine, I stopped at the entrance to the Crimeucopia-cabana Club. Let's face it, with that amount of neon lettering, it was hard to miss. Inside the foyer I checked my hat with the hatcheck girl. She confirmed it."Yeah, that's definitely a hat."As she walked to the back of her cubicle and put it on a shelf, I thought: Nice Gams. True, it was an odd name for a broad-but then, her father...

**A powerful new anthology that redefines our understanding of existentialism and argues for its contemporary relevance.'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety'** - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café'Existentialist thought [...] is an effort to reconcile the objective and the subjective, the absolute and the relative, the timeless and the historical.' Simone de BeauvoirIn the af...

When the first number of the Tatler appeared in 1709, Steele and Addison were about thirty-seven years of age, while Swift, then still counted among the Whigs, was more than four years their senior. Addison and Steele had been friends at the Charterhouse School and at Oxford, and though they had during the following years had varying experiences, their friendship had in no way lessened. Addison had been a fellow of his college, had gained the patronage of Charles Montague and Lord Somers, ...

A blazing collection of responses to the U.S.'s shocking annexation threats and the swell of Canadian national unity that followed, from a remarkable array of Canada's sharpest and most influential minds.Donald Trump is president. And he is insisting that Canada is for sale. It feels disorienting, even existential, to watch a trade war escalate and to hear an American president vow to make Canada “the 51st state.” Amid this disorientation, there ...

The Kolbrin incorporates a body of enlightened teachings that are a treasure of the centuries, a light on the path of Truth, and as relevant to the world today as they were in the past. The majority of what is presented here was actually salvaged from a pile of discarded manuscripts that had been partially burned and weathered.The Kolbrin is concerned with goodness and virtue, courage and mortality, spiritual ideals and human aspirations. It seeks to enshrine love in a place beyond the cla...

A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many previously untranslated stories'A splendid guide to unmapped lands… [Sinha] is one of the best living translators at work bringing the Bengali classics into English… he writes with exceptional elegance and wit' SpectatorThe prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made the form their own. By the twenti...

'So great ... it's criminal' SAGA'With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground' DAILY MAILFrom beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ice slowly melting in a cocktail glass. But look a little closer, and all is not as it seems ...In these classic crime stories of midsummer murder and madness, the mercury is climbing - and so is the body count. Prepare to ...

Explore the intellectual marvels of ancient Greece through the profound insights of its greatest philosophers. Seneca, the unyielding questioner of truths; Plato, the visionary founder of the Academy; and Aristotle, the polymath who shaped logic and ethics. This captivating journey unveils their timeless wisdom on ethics, politics, and the human condition. From the dialectic method to the pursuit of eudaimonia, their philosophies continue to shape our understanding of life, knowledge, and ...

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diaboli...

BioWare’s best-selling franchise Dragon Age lives on in these canonical comics from Dark Horse—now in an affordable omnibus format!Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pens an exciting tale following King Alistair as he discovers the fate of his father. Collects Dragon Age miniseries The Silent Grove, Those Who Speak, and Until We Sleep.* Written by Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider!* Now available in an a...

"Powerful, profound and deeply moving, new fiction by Afghan women writers will expand your mind and elevate your heart" ELIF SHAFAK***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2022***"[An] arresting collection . . . Written in simple, direct prose and offers vivid snapshots of a country beset by war and violence . . . It seems more important than ever to read the work of these courageous writers" Financ...