Ancient & Classical
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Metamorphoses
$8.94 Add to cartMetamorphoses–the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity–takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville’s new tran… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537372
- Language: English
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
$15.95 Add to cartComposed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel an
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393320979
- Language: English
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Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
$27.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life.- Series: The Stoic Virtues
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0593191692
- Language: English
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
$24.99 Add to cartDelve into the dark and mesmerizing world of Edgar Allan Poe, where suspense and terror reign supreme. In this collection of his greatest works, experience the haunting brilliance of The Raven, as a
- Series: Greatest Works
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 938777970X
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$22.00 Add to cartThe great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles
A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Aw- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140268863
- Language: English
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Meditations
$12.00 Add to cartA clear and eloquent leading translation of the Roman emperor’s reflections of human life and death, timeless Stoic philosophy that inspires countless others including The Daily Stoic author Ryan Holi
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0140449337
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$18.95 Add to cartComposed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and fa
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356256
- Language: English
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The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
$17.00 Add to cartThe first easily accessible translation of the esoteric writings that inspired some of the world’s greatest artists, scientists, and philosophers.
Here is an essential digest of the Greco-Egyptian wr- Author: Freke, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 26 2008
- ISBN10: 158542692X
- Language: English
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How to Be a Stoic
$14.00 Add to cartA selection of writings from some of the most iconic Stoics to guide and inspire a more mindful perspective
How can we cope when life’s events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and i- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Dobbin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241475260
- Language: English
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The Barefoot Architect
$29.95 Add to cartTake a greener approach to building with this informative, easy-to-follow handbook–more than 200,000 copies sold internationally!
Whether you’re a DIY builder or simply want to understand construction
- Author: Van Lengen, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 28, 2007
- ISBN10: 0936070420
- Language: English
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The Art of Happiness
$18.00 Add to cartThe brilliant writings of a highly influential Greek philosopher, with a foreword by Daniel Klein, author of Travels with Epicurus
The teachings of Epicurus–about life and death, religion and science,… [more below]- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0143107216
- Language: English
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Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
$29.99 Add to cartThe first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy
Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0197564755
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic
$19.00 Add to cartThe complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full note… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0804169128
- Language: English
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The Winter’s Tale
$9.99 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of The Winter’s Tale from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespear… [more below]
- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982122501
- Language: English
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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
$16.00 Add to cartMore or less 150 years after Homer’s Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455574
- Language: English
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
$26.00 Add to cartEdited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and reli- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1520
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757996
- Language: English
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How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
$19.95 Add to cartTimeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field
The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192111
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$27.00 Add to cartHomer’s classic epic of survival, revenge, and homecoming, translated by E.V. Rieu, now in a stunning clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, and featuring an Introduction by Peter V. J… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0141192445
- 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
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Great Dialogues of Plato
$7.95 Add to cart“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato.”–Emerson
The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body- Author: Plato
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0451471709
- Language: English
