Literature

The Tale of Princess Fatima - the only Arabic epic named for a woman - recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary warrior known throughout th...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 Peter Fienness road trip around Greece [is] engagingl...

Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity ...

A thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry I look not to myself but to the Force, In which all things arise a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's The Republic has influenced Western phi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philoso...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Confessions describes Saint Augustines conversi...

The final thrilling tale of the House of Appius Julianus.A new and deadly threat has emerged at the outskirts of the Roman Empire on the Danube, on...

Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention. New York TimesPhiloctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is ...

On First Principles by Origen of Alexandria, written around 220-230 AD, is one of the most important and contentious works of early Christianity. I...

Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerrière. Globish is a business language, approp...

Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as ...