Emily Hauser Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the greatest expedition the world had...

Marie Phillips Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own...

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MDBolen (psychiatry, U. of California) traces the inner patterns or archetypes that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Published March 28th...

Sofia Souli This special edition has been designed to present the main Greek myths. A work of considerable scope, written in a simple and expressive style, it is accompanied by...

Margaret Atwood NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion...

Robert Graves Nausicaa, a Sicilian princess of the eighth century B.C., looks back on the events of her life and tells how she came to write the epic poem known...

Jean RacineDepicts a princess' absolute submission to her father's will. This title shows a woman's struggle to overcome her overwhelming passion for her stepson - an obsession that brings destruction...

Roberto Calasso With The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso turned ancient legends into modern literature and created a postmodern novel out of the ancient myths of classical Greece...in Ka, Calasso attempts...

AristophanesAristophanes (c.447-385 B.C.), a contemporary of Socrates, was the last and greatest of the Old Attic comedians.Only eleven of his plays survive, and this volume contains Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy...

Dan Burton and David Grandy "[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality―one that cancels out physical disintegration and death―figures into science at some fundamental level.Einstein found solace in his...

OvidMary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis.Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create...

Robert Holdstock Wood caused a sensation when first published in the mid-eighties. Here was a mythical fantasy adored by the critics and loved by readers of all tastes from an...