Category: Classic Literature

In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns, Sarah Ruden employs a melodious and flexible non-rhyming line of eleven syllables, offering a close approximation of Greek hexameter verse in natural English rhythms. The result is a Homeric Hymns marked by its accuracy, simplicity, and economy of movement.Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction situates the Hymns within the mythological and performative traditions that gave rise to them. Focusing on the longer Hymns, she perceptively illuminates these oddly charming and sometimes grave accounts of defining episodes in the evolution of the cosmos.Notes and...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle [Paperback]

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin : September 2009

Seller ID: 193403

ISBN-13: 9780142196465

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States (Signet Classics)

Price: $2.98

Publisher: Signet Classics : June 2009

Seller ID: 158383

ISBN-13: 9780451531308

Binding: Mass

Condition: Used - Good

The ideal introduction for students, aspiring citizens, and general readers to the documents that are as relevant today as when they were first drafted more than 200 years ago. In the years since their creation, the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1789) have come to be recognized as two of history's most significant political documents. Yet, while they affect our everyday lives, too few of us are familiar with what they say. In this revised and updated edition, readers will find complete explanations of every section of the Declaration of Independ...
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The Greek Anthology, Vol. 5 (Loeb Classic, 86)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : January 1918

Seller ID: 146214

ISBN-13: 9780674990951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Greek Anthology ("Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called "Stephanus," wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a third by Diogenianus (2nd century), and much later a fourth, called the "Circle," by Agathias of Myrina. These (lost) and others (also lost) were partly incorporated, arranged according to contents, by Constantinus Cephalas ...
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The Mark Twain Anthology (LOA #199): Great Writers on His Life and Work (Library of America Mark Twain Edition)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Library of America : March 2010

Seller ID: 166978

ISBN-13: 9781598530650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mark Twain, William Faulkner once observed, was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs. In this unique collection scores of these literary legatees from the U.S. and around the world take the measure of Twain and his genius, among them: Jos Mart , Rudyard Kipling, Theodor Herzl, George Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken, Helen Keller, Jorge Luis Borges, Sterling Brown, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Kenzaburo Oe, Robert Penn Warren, Ursula Le Guin, Norman Mailer, Erica Jong, Gore Vidal, David Bradley, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, ...
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The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Touchstone : March 1999

Seller ID: 124276

ISBN-13: 9780684838311

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With stunning works by seminal black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W.E.B. DuBois, Locke has constructed a vivid look at the new negro, the changing African American finding his place in the ever shifting sociocultural landscape that was 1920s America. With poetry, prose, and nonfiction essays, this collection is widely praised ...
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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics : September 2019

Seller ID: 181467

ISBN-13: 9780143133384

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ahmad's] introduction is fiery and charismatic... This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth. --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside A Penguin Classic Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival....
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The World Within, Fiction Illuminating Neuroses of Our Time; with an Introd. and Analyses by Frederic Wertham

Price: $12.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill : January 1947

Seller ID: 178811

ISBN: B000NWLQEE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library : November 2022

Seller ID: 187295

ISBN-13: 9781529069228

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 (Penguin 20th Century Classics)

By: , W. Somerset Maugham

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : October 1992

Seller ID: 78806

ISBN-13: 9780140185904

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include Flotsam and Jetsam, The Man With the Sca, r and The Vessel of Wrath. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authorita...
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No Longer at Ease

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $7.80

Publisher: Anchor : October 1994

Seller ID: 194131

ISBN-13: 9780385474559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A classic story of moral struggle in an age of turbulent social change and the final book in Chinua Achebe's The African Trilogy When Obi Okonkwo, grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall Apart returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates him from his African roots. No Longer at Ease, the third and concluding novel in Chinua Achebe's The African Trilogy, depicts the uncertainties that beset the nation of Nigeria, as independence from colonial rule loomed near. In Obi Okonkwo's experiences, the ambiguities, pitfalls, and temptations of a rapidly e...
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The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : May 2017

Seller ID: 143116

ISBN-13: 9780143131342

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who opened the magic casements of African fiction. The African Trilogy--comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. The trilogy opens with the groundbreaking Things Fall Apart, the tale of Okonkwo, a hero in his village, whose clashes with mis...
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Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $10.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : December 2008

Seller ID: 186419

ISBN-13: 9780393932195

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Chronology of Achebe's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Things Fall Apart: A Novel

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $8.40

Publisher: Anchor : October 1994

Seller ID: 195038

ISBN-13: 9780385474542

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Thing...
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

By: Adams, John

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : December 2003

Seller ID: 180313

ISBN-13: 9780142437117

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The correspondence of a Founding Father and his brilliant wifeThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams provides an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; the letters also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key moments in American history - the Continental Congress, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and John Adams's diplomatic missions to Europe - the ...
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Aesop's Fables (Signet Classics)

By: Aesop

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Signet Classics : October 2004

Seller ID: 164195

ISBN-13: 9780451529534

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This exclusive Signet Classic edition contains 203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with classic woodcuts by the great French artist J. J. Grandville. It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet "sour grapes," "crying 'wolf, '" "actions speak louder than words," "honesty is the best policy," and literally hundreds of other metaphors, axioms, and ideas tha...
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Category: Classic Literature