The story of the Iliad centers on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilles's killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism.

"A richly diverse, intelligently designed, and helpfully annotated introduction to the world of conservative theory. No comparable collection that I know of is as broad and unparochial as this one."--Thomas Pangle, University of Toronto

Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a ...

In this work, Denise M. Bostdorff considers President Truman’s address to a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947.

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure.

This work stands as a classic of American literature for its timeless exploration of the human condition in an industrialized society.

The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. this version contains new illustrations

The first complete English translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s literary masterpiece A Penguin Classic Mysteries is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer—and ...

«Золотой теленок» – острая сатира на типажи и нравы России двадцатых годов прошлого века. Как и знаменитый роман «Двенадцать ...

Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville, is a gripping tale of obsession, revenge, and the power of nature. The novel follows Captain Ahab's quest for the elusive White Whale, Moby Dick, through the eyes of Ishmael, a young sailor.