Medieval
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The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology
$18.00 Add to cartWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman… [more below]
- Author: Sturluson, Snorri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0140447555
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$16.95 Add to cart‘She sees, coming up a second time,
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnaro
Earth from the ocean, eternally green;
the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,
over the mountain hunting fish.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Larrington, Carolyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199675341
- Language: English
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Havamal and Norse Proverbs
$17.00 Add to cartHavamal, or the Ballad of the High One, is the major work of Norse wisdom literature. In one of the key poems in the Poetic Edda we find the counsel of Odin himself. Advice for wanderers, proverbial w
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 192260254X
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$12.99 Add to cartComprised of three books – Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso – Dante’s Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieri’s epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, an
- Series: Chartwell Classics #5
- Author: Aligieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0785834583
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatorio
$19.00 Add to cartIn Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to … [more below]
- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140448969
- Language: English
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Dante: The Essential Commedia
$35.00 Add to cartThe Commedia, Dante’s epic story of one man’s journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in heaven, is one of the greatest works of Western literature, but it can s… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096209
- Language: English
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Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems
$15.00 Add to cartA rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt
In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheeta- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #100
- Author: Montgomery, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1479834254
- Language: English
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Purgatory
$17.00 Add to cartThe second volume in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Beginning with Dante’s liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory – a mountain of nine levels, for- Series: Divine Comedy (Penguin Paperback)
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140444424
- Language: English
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Inferno
$17.00 Add to cartTranslated by Anthony Esolen
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that repro
Illustrations by Gustave Dor- Series: Divine Comedy #1
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970063
- Language: English
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
$16.95 Add to cartThis startling new translation of Dante’s Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland’s most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also re… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590171144
- Language: English
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Pearl: A New Verse Translation
$14.95 Add to cartOne of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his “compulsively readable” translations (New York Times Book Review). A perfect c… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492543
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$24.95 Add to cart“She sees, coming up a second time,
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnaro
earth from the ocean, eternally green;
the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,
over the mountain hunting fish.”- Series: Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection
- Author: Larrington, Carolyne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198834578
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems
$16.99 Add to cartPassed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods a… [more below]
- Author: Bellows, Henry Adams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0486460215
- Language: English
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Inferno
$30.00 Add to cartPart of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, ta… [more below]
- Series: Divine Comedy (Penguin Hardcover)
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28, 2010
- ISBN10: 0141195878
- Language: English
