It has been said that you should surround yourself with those on the same mission as you. The cover of A Gladiators Journey seems to suggest this mission is one of inevitable conflict and carnage. However, the dichotomy of A Gladiators Journey is that the true mission is that of survival and hope. Although not necessarily alcoholic themselves, there are an estimated 76 million people in the United States affected by alcoholism and other family dysfunction. Those affected will be on a lifel...

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of BooksVirgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

The Gilgamesh Epic is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC). These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates to...

The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950sNow in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in the third century B.C., this epic story of one of the most beloved heroes of Greek mythology, with its combination of the f...

The Four Ancient Books of Walesby William F. SkeneThe only available translation of the complete corpus of Welsh Bardic poetry."This is William Skene's anthology of dark-age Welsh Bardic poetry. Often cited, but difficult to obtain, this book contains every remaining piece of Bardic poetry known. The poems are translated from four manuscripts: the Black Book of Caermarthen, the Red Book of Hergest (which is also the source of the Mabinogion), the Book of Taliessin an...

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well its great length, Clarel is notable for being the major work of Melville's later years; in the three decades between The Confidence Man (1857) and Billy Budd (begun in 1888), Melville devoted h...

Licks and Kisses is Ethan Radcliff's second book of poetry. Here again he's presenting his fans with erotic poetry,BDSM poetry, romantic poetry and heart felt prose. Take another journey with him. He never disappoints. Thank you for reading what is in his head and heart.

"Those words are forever and ever woven into every cell of ethereal but more realistic world..." In "Poems from Another Realm" readers will be introduced with the world that is touched every time when Tanja Vu tries to follow and communicate with the "Whisperer." He always communicates; he is always present, and there is no doubt in her mind that HE is real and inspiring. Tanja Vu takes readers to a magical journey where they are touched with the leaves of nature, kissed with a raindrop so...

Part love story, part fairy tale, part novel of ideas, IN YOUR MYTHS is a romp through Greek mythology that takes some of the shine off "Shining" Apollo. Find out the real reason Apollo chased Daphne, famous for preferring tree-hood to him. But her heart – and other delectable parts – already been given to the god of play, Great Pan. Told using lively, accessible renderings of Ancient Greek meters, and chock-a-block with pictures.

William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed while at university. His first volume, in 1858, The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, was the first published book of Pre-Raphaelite poetry. Due to its luke warm reception he was discourage...

Writings for the sake of writing, to be enjoyed and to be bring knowledge. Intertwined with the love for telling an enthralling story. Complied with whit and imaginative word play met by a verbal portrait. North of Phoenix is three poems written about living in Phoenix and a series of poems called "Tales of Theiv'yah" telling the story of a royal family and the civil war of their home.

Herein are the 158 quatrains by Omar Khayyam from the Bodleian Rubaiyat retransmogrified, more than 100 of them omitted by FitzGerald. I've added 14 more that came to me, as a kind of ending, so there are 174 quatrains altogether.Coumans' quatrain correspondence table at his fine website, showing the Bodleian Rubaiyat manuscript's various public domain quatrains' translations and/or stylizations, allows one to home in on the real Omar Khayyam by reading between the lines of literal...