The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
The White Goddess
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and... more...
The Greek Myths
Penguin Group US 1990; US$ 11.99Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. @GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line! When he gets home we?ll talk. I?m sure we can work it out. But what?s the best way... more...
The Greek Myths
Penguin Books Ltd 1990; Not AvailableRobert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience. He demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is ?no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons?. All the scattered elements of each myth are assembled into a harmonious... more...
The Greek Myths
Penguin Books Ltd 1990; Not AvailableEndymion, Pelops, Daedalus, Pygmalion ? what are the stories behind these and the hundreds of other familiar names from Greek mythology ? names that recur throughout the history of European culture? In a two-volume work that has become a classic reference book for both the serious scholar and the casual inquirer, Robert Graves retells the adventures... more...
Goodbye to All That
Penguin Books Ltd 2000; Not AvailableIn 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.... more...
King Jesus
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableRobert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true King of the Jews. Written from the perspective of a lowly official at the end of the first century AD, King Jesus recounts Jesus's birth, youth, life as... more...
Wife to Mr Milton
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableMarie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her new life. Her husband is high-minded and unyielding, and only makes Marie long for the man she really loves. As Civil War sweeps across England and the King is killed, a... more...
The Golden Fleece
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableIn order to reclaim his father's kingdom, Jason has been sent on an impossible mission - to take the golden ram's fleece that lies far away, guarded by a dragon. Jason, who is so attractive that women fall instantly in love with him, sets sail in the Argo , along with the greatest heroes of ancient Greece, including the surly (and often drunk) Hercules,... more...
Homer's Daughter
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableIn Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey . This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausica?. In Robert Graves's words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl... more...
Seven Days in New Crete
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableEdward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find life among the New Cretans rather dull. He comes to realize that their perfect existence, inspired by... more...









