Charged with female agency, Medea is a powerful story of betrayal, desperation, and horrifying revenge. The classic Greek tragedy is brought to life in this lyrical translation by Augusta Webster.Medea has lived in the shadows her entire life, but when her husband, Jason, commits the ultimate act of betrayal and leaves her for another woman, she refuses to be quietly side-lined. Consumed by sorrow and rage, Medea devises a chilling and urgent plan for reve...

Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a mother and her only child. As well as reflecting on aging and mortality, the sonnets express joy and love. This volume includes seven additional sonnets on other themes.

Immerse yourself in a captivating anthology of 144 exquisite poems, penned by the renowned Augusta Webster and other literary luminaries. This unabridged collection transports you to a realm of emotions, musings, and vivid imagery. From love's tender embrace to nature's serene beauty, each verse paints a vibrant tapestry of human experience. Prepare to be captivated by the lyrical prowess of these poetic masters as they explore the depths of the human soul and the wonders of the world arou...

In this sequence Augusta Webster experimented with eight-line verses grouped thematically by the seasons of the year. These poems also explore the cyclical stages of life from youth, courtship and parenthood through age and loss.

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Vintage, pre-1923, edition of the classic reference work, with 14 illustrations. As explained in the preface: "The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become "household words." John Bartlett (June 14, 1820 December 3, 1905) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century a...

Included herein are the seven surviving plays of Athens’ pre-eminent playwright, Sophocles, masterfully translated by Lewis Campbell, M.A., LL.D. The plays included are: ‘Antigone,’ ‘Aias,’ ‘King Oedipus,’ ‘Electra,’ ‘The Trachinian Maidens,’ and ‘Oedipus at Colonus.’

The Epic Of Gilgamish is, perhaps, the oldest written story on Earth. It comes to us from Ancient Sumeria, and was originally written on 12 clay tablets in cuneiform script. It is about the adventures of the historical King of Uruk (somewhere between 2750 and 2500 BCE). The author, R. Campbell Thompson, was an Assyriologist associated with the British Museum and this is one of the first essentially complete academic translations of this ancient text.

Enuma Elish: The Epic Of Creation by L.W. King The Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind. The Enuma Elish is one of the oldest stories known to mankind. It is a story first written down by the ancient Sumerians thousands of years ago. As a one time assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, L.W. King provides us with a qualified translation of the tablets which were originally written in ...

The Book of the Law or Liber AL vel Legis is the central sacred text of Thelema, written down from dictation mostly by Aleister Crowley. Crowley claimed it was dictated to him by a discarnate entity named Aiwass. However, the three chapters are largely written in the first person by the Thelemic deities Nuit, Hadit and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.The book contains three chapters, each of which was alleged to be written down in one hour in 1904, Cairo, Egypt.Crowley believed that in order ...

Standing the ultimate test of time, the plays of Sophocles have towered over the rest of Greek tragedy for millennia. Oedipus endures as one of the greatest tragic creations of all time.This Complete Sophocles Anthology contains all three of the famous "Theban Plays", as well as Sophocles' four other extant plays. The seven plays in this anthology are: Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes.Please v...

Medea finds her position in the Greek world threatened when her husband Jason attempts to leave her for a Greek princess of Corinth.In this classic translation of Seneca’s Medea, Ella Harris retains the powerful effects of the monologues, as well as the unique flavor of Seneca's language.