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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) – $250
November 14 marks the 150th anniversary of Melville’s salty saga of vengeance and obsession. Now a contender for the great American novel, this book was harpooned at the time of its 1851 publication by...
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The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha – $200
The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world’s great religious literature. Like all religious texts in Pali, the...
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 – $445
THE GRAPHIC CANON is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators...
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 – $445
The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan...
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The Tale of the Heike – $595
A masterpiece of world literature; the samurai saga of pride, romance, and warfare of medieval Japan With a reflection on the fleeting nature of power and glory begins The Tale of the Heike, an epic...
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The Master and Margarita – $240
Mikhail Bulgakov‘s The Master and Margarita is Burgin/Tiernan O’Connor has given the most complete and accurate translation of this work. There is a commentary section at the end of the text, which...
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Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) – $295
Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to...
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The Odyssey of Homer – $250
The most eloquent translation of Homer’s epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan War. Filed under: Clásicos Tagged: 2007, classics, greek, Harper...
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others – $255
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include...
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The Sagas of Icelanders – $350
A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s greatest literary treasures–as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the...
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Tao Te Ching – $265
In what may be the most faithful translation of the Tao Te Ching, the translators have captured the terse, enigmatic beauty of the original masterpiece without embellishing it with personal...
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Women in Love (Vintage Classics) – $245
Women in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two...
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The Book of Five Rings – $275
This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this...
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Clarissa: or, The History of a Young Lady – $525
This classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe’s pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson...
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The Executioner’s Song – $315
Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brand-new edition. Arguably the greatest book from America’s most heroically ambitious...
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Collected Poems and Other Verse – $295
Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery,...
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Dhalgren – $275
In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel “to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s” (Jonathan...
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Aeneid (Oxford World’s Classics) – $245
Frederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil’s ancient...
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Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness –...
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 ce in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Once freed, he established an influential school of Stoic philosophy, stressing that human beings cannot...
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The Greek Myths, Volumes I and II (The Folio Society Slipcased Edition) – $725
For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge of the Greek myths is crucial. In this much-loved collection, poet and scholar Robert Graves retells the immortal stories of the Greek...
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