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  • Faust

    (Part Two)

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by Philip Wayne ...
    The second part of Goethe's masterpiece opens with Faust struggling to recover from the death of his beloved Gretchen. The quick-witted demon Mephistopheles soon persuades him to look beyond his sorrow and enter the world of politics and power, but the great scholar is still eager for new sensations, and asks Mephistopheles to reveal Helen of Troy to him in a vision. Overwhelmed by her beauty, ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • The Poems of Sappho

    An Interpretative Rendition into English

    by Sappho ...
    Translated by John Myers O'Hara ...
    Credited by many as one of first and foremost pioneers of love poetry, Sappho was a female poet who is believed to have been born on the Greek island of Lesbos in the 6th century BCE. Though her work that survives today exists mostly in fragments, this skillful translation conveys the heartrending rawness that has won her verse so much acclaim from ancient times to the present. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Faust

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Goethe’s "Faust" is a tragic based on a classic German legend. Goethe wrote it in two parts (Part I in 1808, Part II in 1832), and together they revise the Faustus legend to fit with Romantic sensibilities and eighteenth-century attitudes toward earthly life and the beyond. The theme of a man selling his soul to the devil for earthly desires—fame, knowledge, wealth, power—developed from a profound ... Read more

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  • Euripides

    Ten Plays

    Translated by Paul Roche ...
    by Euripides ...
    A modern translation exclusive to signetFrom perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and The Cyclops. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Story of the Golden Age

    by James Baldwin ...
    To the simple-hearted folk who dwelt in that island three thousand years ago, there was never a sweeter spot than sea-girt Ithaca. Rocky and rugged though it may have seemed, yet it was indeed a smiling land embosomed in the laughing sea. There the air was always mild and pure, and balmy with the breath of blossoms; the sun looked kindly down from a cloudless sky, and storms seldom broke the quiet ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)

    by Theocritus, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 69 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    The inventor of the bucolic genre, Theocritus of Syracuse was a learned poet, who refashioned traditional literary forms in original and highly polished verse on a small scale. Theocritus is best known for poems set in pastoral landscapes, consisting of dialogues and song-contests, combining lyric tone with epic meter. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

    by Sappho, Bliss Carman ...
    According to the Introduction: "Perhaps the most perilous and the most alluring venture in the whole field of poetry is that which Mr. Carman has undertaken in attempting to give us in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which fragments have survived. The task is obviously not one of translation or of paraphrasing, but of imaginative and, at the same time, interpretive construction. It is ... Read more

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  • Shelley: Poems

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley personified the richly various—and contradictory—energies of his time. This compact yet comprehensive collection showcases all the extraordinary facets of Shelley ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Half a Hundred Hero Tales of Ulysses and the Men of Old

    by Various, Francis Storr ...
    A collection of 50 stories from Greek Mythology for young readers containing classics of literature from the time of Ulysses.The book contains, amongst many others , the following classics :Ulysses and the CyclopsThe SirensOrpheus and EurydiceThe Quest of the Golden FleecePerseus and AndromedaDaedalus and IcarusPygmalionIphigenia ... Read more

    $2.67 USD

  • Three Books of Poetry

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    This collection includes: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Charmides and Other Poems, and Selected Poems. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, ... Read more

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  • The Princess

    by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Greek Heroes - Stories Translated from Niebuhr - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

    by Niebuhr ...
    Illustrated by Arthur Rackham ...
    ‘The Greek Heroes – Stories Translated From Niebuhr’ presents a collection of thrilling stories about five Greek Heroes; ‘The Argonauts, ‘The Prowess of Hercules’, ‘The Heraclidae’, ‘The Story of Perseus’, and ‘The Story of Theseus’. Together, these stories provide a comprehensive picture of Greek myth and legend. Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776 – 1831), was a Danish-German statesman, banker, and ... Read more

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