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Beowulf by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Classic Fiction
A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpieceBeowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortall ...Show more
Beowulf by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Classic Fiction
A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures-a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon-and then dies, mortally ...Show more
Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and create versions that are definitive for our time. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular edition in print, and his translations of Jesus, Ril ...Show more
Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Religion
The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight. Now, The Book of Job has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli poetry, ...Show more
Catullus - Selected Poems by Gaius Valerius Catullus; Stephen Mitchell (Translator)
Category: Poetry
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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The classic guide for Zen students pursuing the true way. "Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha-statue, blows smoke in its face and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?" This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn was fond of p ...Show more
Freud and Beyond - A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought by Stephen A. Mitchell; Margaret J. Black
Category: Health and Wellbeing
The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic think ...Show more
Gilgamesh: A new English version by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Biography | Series: Profile Ser.
The poet and translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible.
Gospel According to Jesus by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Religion
At the center of this dazzling presentation of the life and teachings of Jesus is a new translation by Mitchell of what might be called the Essential Gospel. Mitchell has retained from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John only the authentic sayings and doings of Jesus--highlighted with Mitchell's insightful co ...Show more
Hebrew Melodies by Heinrich Heine; Stephen Mitchell (Translator); Jack Prelutsky (Translator); Mark Podwal (Illustrator); Elisheva Carlebach (Foreword by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Dimyonot Ser.
One of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century, Heinrich Heine was a convert without conviction. He chose Christianity over Judaism as a means of securing an academic career, but when his conversion failed to yield the hoped-for job opportunities, he devoted himself to writing instead. ...Show more