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The Garden of Earth: The Murray Darling by Homer Rieth
Category: Australian History
The Garden of Earth is told in Thirty Five Books. Each canto is a long-breathed sentence that takes you in its flow. They gather all the hues of nature, history, culture and philosophy like metaphorical rivers gathering majestic detritus. It invites us to consider the plenitude of the world, but also ho ...Show more
The Great Adventure Collection by Mark Twain; Rudyard Kipling; James Fenimore Cooper; Homer; Jonathan Swift; Jules Verne; Daniel Defoe; Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics
This exciting 8-book boxset brings together a variety of renowned authors, each of whom are celebrated for their fantastic adventure writing. It comprises: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TawinThe Man Who Would Be King, & Other Stories by Rudyard KiplingThe Last of the Mohicans by James ...Show more
The Homeric Hymns by Jules Cashford, Homer, Homer
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals. Together they offer the most vivid picture we have ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles an ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
Category: Classic Fiction
High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our cen ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer Homer
Category: Classic Fiction
The IliadBy HomerAnd Achilles answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already. Give ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
Category: Fiction
Homer's epic poem is brought to life for younger readers. It is the tenth year of the siege of Troy and no one knows who will win. The gods watch from Mount Olympus and fight, too, some for the Greeks and some for the Trojans. There are many battles and Achilles tries to avenge a friend's death.
The Iliad by Homer
Category: Fiction | Series: Collector's library
One of the great epics of western literature, 'The Iliad' recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem vivdly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction.