Poetry

This box set includes the epic tales of 'The Iliad', 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil, exploring themes of heroism, adventure, and the human condition.

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative...

One of the most performed and famous plays in the Western literary canon, Shakespeare's masterpiece about the tragic titular prince of Denmark mines the themes of revenge and despair to...

‘Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more sorrowThan fate would have them bear.’Attributed...

‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last...

Written in the early 14th century, "Inferno" is the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic trilogy "The Divine Comedy."

With a perception and universality as relevant nearly ten centuries after they were written, the great Persian polymath'sBook of Loveis a veritable anatomy of emotion and desire.Now in paperback, this...

One of the most performed and famous plays in the Western literary canon, Shakespeare's masterpiece about the tragic titular prince of Denmark mines the themes of revenge and despair to...

This boxed set includes two of the greatest epic poems of ancient Greece, 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey', which tell the stories of the Trojan War and the adventures of...

The two political works in this text are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese History.