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Go Bravely - Becoming the Woman You Were Created to Be by Emily Wilson Hussem
Category: Self-Help
Emily Wilson Hussem used to feel the same way. In Go Bravely, the Catholic musician and speaker offers twenty bits of advice that will equip you to tackle your deepest concerns about relationships, self-esteem, and dating while strengthening your faith at the same time. Book jacket.
Inanna by Emily H. Wilson
Category: Fantasy
An enthralling and lyrical fantasy debut, and the first in an incredible new trilogy re-telling The Epic of Gilgamesh. Brimming full of warring gods, rebellious humans, and the goddess of love caught between them whose destiny has the power to transform the shape of the world, this is perfect for reader ...Show more
Metamorphoses, the Norton Library by Charles Martin (Translator); Emily Wilson (Introduction by); Ovid
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: The\Norton Library
Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin's blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a??smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear? (Richard Wilbur) version that ?highlights [the poem's] lightness and pervasive sense ...Show more
Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles; Emily Wilson (Translator)
Category: Classic | Series: The\Norton Library
"Oedipus Tyrannos is the first Greek play many readers encounter, and this version is their ideal gateway. Emily Wilson's verse line is effortlessly graceful, whether in taut, tense dialogue exchanges or in the lyrical choral odes." -JAMES ROMM, Bard College
Seneca - A Life by Emily Wilson
Category: History
This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power and ...Show more
Seneca - A Life by Emily Wilson
Category: History
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap betw ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer; Emily Wilson (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of G ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
Category: Classic Fiction
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
Category: Classic Fiction
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
Category: Poetry
The Odyssey is a poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed Odysseus has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemac ...Show more
The Odyssey - Trans. by Dr. Wilson by Homer; Emily Wilson (Translator)
Category: Classic | Series: The\Norton Library
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem features Odysseus's encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wi ...Show more
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