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A Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Biography
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading-and relivin -Homer's epic masterpiece. "My favourite classicist once again combines meticulous literary investigation with warm and wrenching human emotion - books like these are why ...Show more
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Biography
A timeless and inspiring gift for Father's Day. Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday ... A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017 ... Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost ...Show more
Bacchae by Daniel (INT) Robin (TRN); Mendelsohn Euripides; Robertson
Category: Poetry & Plays
Elusive Embrace by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Politics
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also ...Show more
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Culture
Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be B ...Show more
How Beautiful it is and How Easily it Can be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Film & Tv
Whether on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new novel or revisiting a classic work of literature, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, in "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Ca ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: History
From Prix Méditerranée-winning author Daniel Mendelsohn (shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pen Art of the Essay Award) comes a collection of eclectic writing that interrogates contemporary life and pop culture with wisdom and humour. 'Our most irresistible li ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Languages and Reference
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Poetry
The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation, published in the UK on the 150th anniversary of his birth and 80th anniversary of his death . No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, w ...Show more
The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy by Constantine Cavafy; translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Poetry
The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear for the music of Cavafy's form, Daniel Mendelsohn's translation ...Show more
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Biography Memoir
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic--part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work--that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and histo ...Show more