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  • Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electraby Sophocles; H. D. F. Kitto; Edith Hall

    Oxford University Press, UK 1994; US$ 8.99

    Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles's reputation has remained undimmed... more...

  • Lucan's "Bellum Civile"by Nicola Hömke; Christiane Reitz

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 126.00

    Lucan?s Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume well-known experts on Lucan examine the poetological, narratological and stylistic techniques the author employed to write on the theme of civil war. The epic poem is at once... more...

  • For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enufby Ntozake Shange

    Scribner 2010; US$ 12.00

    From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp?s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award?winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange?s words reveal what... more...

  • Christa Wolf's Utopian Visionby Anna K. Kuhn

    Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 34.00

    This is a book-length chronological study in English of Christa Wolf's works. more...

  • How to Read a Bookby Mortimer J. Adler; Charles Van Doren

    Touchstone 2011; US$ 16.99

    How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through... more...

  • On the Nature of Thingsby Lucretius; Martin Ferguson Smith

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2001; US$ 14.50

    Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura —long out of print—is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new... more...

  • The Homeric Hymnsby Susan C. Shelmerdine

    Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2012; US$ 6.95

    This is a collection of standard texts of ancient Greek that are important components of what we know about Greek myth, religion, language and culture. It includes ample notes and introductions to provide information on the works' historic importance. more...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilkeby Karen Leeder; Robert Vilain

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 24.00

    A collection of specially commissioned essays providing an overview of the life, works and contexts of this important modernist poet. more...

  • Improby Keith Johnstone

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.95

    Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory... more...

  • The Tricky Partby Martin Moran

    Souvenir Press 2011; US$ 18.94

    At the age of 12 Martin Moran was involved in a sexual relationship with an older man, a counsellor from a Catholic boy's camp. Thirty years later, he set out to find and confront his abuser. The Tricky Part is the story of the man Martin Moran became, and the ambiguous relationship with his abuser that would mark his life. Growing up in an ordinary... more...