Showing titles in Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature

Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May", or "remembrance of things past", or "the marriage of true minds". For centuries these wonderfully crafted, intense lyrics have stood for something valued about youth, love, and the emotional complexities belonging to that time of life. This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.

Legends tell of an unknown, hidden country where King Solomon's treasure is secreted. Many have searched for Solomon's diamonds and have never returned from their mysterious journey. Sir Henry Curtis' brother was lost on just such an adventure. Now, with a secret map, a regal guide, and the aid of Allan Quatermain, the renowned safari hunter, a group of three Englishmen journey to a secret land of witch doctors, warriors, and ancient mysteries.

Oedipus Rex is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as Oedipus, King of Thebes). It tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall.

Katherine Woodville's sister never gave her a choice. A happy girl of modest means, Kate hardly expected to become a maker of kings. But when her sister impulsively marries King Edward IV in secret, Katherine's life is no longer hers to control....

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. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

In this wickedly funny play, a seemingly ideal couple and their charming, privileged friends surmount such details as selling government secrets, theft, and bribery with love triumphant over all.

La Biblioteca Jaime Sabines pone al alcance de los lectores la obra completa de uno de los poetas más admirados de México. En esta edición, revisada y contrastada con los documentos originales del poeta, se reúnen tres de los textos que lo consagraron como uno de los grandes creadores de la...

Anne Carson's first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016) A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Published here in a must-listen edition, several of the twenty-five startling poetic...

Bloomsbury presents Tyrants and Traders: Tintagel, Arthur and the Lost Kings by Ken Dark, read by Edward Rowe. Discover exciting new research illuminating the most mysterious centuries of British history. How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history...

In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War. Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story...

The Fall of Hyperion is an unfinished visionary epic that was begun in 1819 as a revision of Keats's earlier poem Hyperion. Framed as a dream-vision, it follows a poet-narrator who wanders into a mysterious garden, eats and drinks at a sacred feast, and finds himself transported to a decaying temple. There he meets the veiled goddess Moneta, priestess of fallen memory, who forces him to confront his own worth as a poet before revealing to him—through visions within the dream—the story of the Titans' overthrow by the Olympian gods.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Diez años de guerra han terminado bajo los muros de Troya. Ahora comienza el viaje de regreso — y será la prueba más dura de todas. Ulises, vencedor de Troya, vaga por los mares perseguido por la ira de Poseidón. Le esperan el cíclope en su cueva...

Eine Vielzahl von Gedichten, die in pfälzischer Mundart mit Witz und Charme zentrale Themen der Region behandeln. Zielgruppe sind pfälzer Dialektfreunde mit Interesse an Regionalgeschichte, Heimatdichtung und pfälzischer...

Das andere Bitcoin ist ein persönlicher und künstlerischer Werkraum über Bitcoin, Geld, Technik, Erinnerung und Zukunft. Das Werk verbindet Essay, Dialog, Marktbeobachtung, poetische Reflexion und Hörraum zu einer eigenen Form. Im Zentrum steht nicht Bitcoin als Preisbewegung, sondern die...

L'Odyssée : Après dix années de guerre devant Troie, Odysseus entreprend enfin le voyage vers Ithakè. Mais la colère de Poseidaôn le condamne à l'errance : tempêtes, îles enchantées, Cyclope, Sirènes et royaume des morts jalonnent le chemin qui doit le ramener auprès de Pènélopéia...

In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered...

Willkommen an der Hades Academy – hier wird dein Herz bluten! Elaras Leben gleicht der Hölle, seitdem sie erfahren hat, dass sie an der Hades Academy ausgebildet werden soll, um das Gleichgewicht zwischen Ober- und Unterwelt zu bewahren. Zwischen mystischen Legenden, magischen Wesen und talentierten Götternachfahren verfolgt Elara jedoch einen Plan: ihre Schwester ausfindig machen, die ein Jahr zuvor die Akademie betreten hat und seitdem spurlos verschwunden ist.

Januar 1956: Siebzehn Jahre nachdem Mascha Kaléko Nazi-Deutschland in letzter Minute verlassen hat, kehrt sie zurück. Sie fährt nach Berlin, in die Stadt, in der sie glücklich gewesen war, in der sie als Dichterin erfolgreich geworden ist, und durch das ganze Land, ein ganzes Jahr lang. Fast täglich schickt sie Briefe an ihren Mann nach New York, und erzählt – von märchenhaften Erfolgen, von einem alten, neuen Land.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the man who saves a city is also the hidden wound at its heart? In *Oedipus King of Thebes*, Sophocles creates one of the most devastating tragedies in world drama: a story of plague, prophecy, truth, blindness, and the terrifying limits of...

A mysterious stranger. A magnificent kingdom. Songs of war that awaken memories too painful to hide. In The Odyssey: Books 7 & 8, the shipwrecked Odysseus enters the wealthy and seemingly enchanted land of the Phaeacians, where the next stage of his journey begins. Guided by Athena, Odysseus...