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Lily Cole stars as Helen of Troy, ‘the face that launched a thousand ships’, in Simon Armitage’s vivid, visceral adaptation of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid. For 10 years, the Greeks have been laying siege to Troy to win back their abducted queen, Helen. But as the war drags on, and the battlefields run scarlet with blood, the opposing forces are entrenched in a bitter stalemate. As gods and mortals squabble amongst themselves for the spoils of war, the exhausted warriors go to extreme lengths in a desperate grab for victory....

Jason and the Golden Fleece is one of the finest tales of Ancient Greece, an epic journey of adventure and trial standing beside similar stories of Perseus, Theseus and the Labours of Heracles. The finest classic account comes from Apollonius of Rhodes, the Greek poet of the 3rd century BCE and librarian at Alexandria. Though less well-known than Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and much shorter, it is an epic poem which is both exciting and moving, with remarkably vivid portraits of the main characters, Jason and Medea.

Dive into the epic adventure of the "Epic of Gilgamesh," a journey through time that takes you back to the origins of literature with one of the oldest stories ever told.

Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism. An autobiography in verse, it tells of his childhood in the Lake District, his student days in Cambridge, his passion for the French Revolution and his later disenchantment with it. It also tells of his personal journey to a belief in Nature as the great moral and spiritual force which shapes human life, but on which human society all too often turns its back.

Mes nuits ne sont pas une sinécure. Souvent, vers trois heures environ, c'est le temps de l'Annonciation. Une force ou une voix (que d'aucuns appelaient Muse) me hèle, me tire du sommeil, plutôt sans ménagement. Chaque fois, engourdi, contrarié avant d'être ravi, je résiste, j'essaie… Mais c'est plus fort que moi, plutôt plus fort qu'elle puisque la chère importune m'infiltre de force, dans une sorte de nécessité ou de fatalité impérieuses.

Algumas emoções viram canção. Outras precisam ser contadas. E algumas encontram seu lugar exatamente entre a palavra e a música. Entre a Calma e a Loucura ganha vida em sua versão audiobook, narrada pela própria Vicka e acompanhada por trilhas sonoras originais inspiradas nas músicas do álbum homônimo. Mais do que uma leitura em voz alta, a obra se transforma em uma experiência imersiva onde literatura, música e interpretação se encontram. Ao longo dos capítulos, fragmentos, contos, poemas e reflexões revelam pensamentos, sentimentos e histórias que ultrapassam os limites da canção.

From the New York Times bestselling creator of Poems of Parenting comes a beautiful collection of poetry and art that zeroes in on finding moments of clear-eyed joy amongst the messiness of motherhood, presented in a gorgeous package perfect for gift-giving. By turns heartfelt, funny...

For fans of Ada Limón and Kate Baer, Make Me Good Soil is a luminous, intimate new poetry collection from celebrated author Sophie Strand that explores personal love, loss, trauma healing, and illness through the lens of interspecies connection. Sophie Strand's poetry is attuned to the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Childhood Journey of Boy Prince Hero Rama. The Book is about a lyrical celebration of the early life of Lord Rama, inspired by the Bala Kanda of the Ramayana. Through tender and evocative poetry, this collection traces the divine footsteps of young...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. About the book “Fragments of a Life Observed” is not merely a collection of musings. It is the reflective journey of a man who has continued to engage deeply with life despite having seen its fragility closely. I have known Shri Pramod Kumar Gupta...

Smell the Musk, is a Poem about the Internet Tycoon Elon Musk. It looks at the light hearted progress of his companies. Latest edition 2 verses on his takeover of Twitter in the Authors now renowned lighthearted take.

Dans un monde dévasté par la guerre et la tyrannie. Le Moderne Titus vous invite à découvrir un héros d'une grandeur inégalée, un souverain dont la sagesse, la bonté et la clémence redéfinissent la notion de victoire. Ce poème magistral vous plonge au cœur de l'Histoire, où la paix triomphe enfin sur le chaos. À travers des vers puissants et inspirants, Mme d'Astanières de Boisserolle dépeint un monarque au-delà des conquêtes sanglantes, un roi pacifique dont l' âme est guidée par la justice et l'humanité.

A time when our Arboreal neighbours where plentiful and now need a helping hand. The joy of climbing trees, and especially watching expert climbers like Capuchin monkeys. Our need to have trees and forests once again, and the tree huggers that keep our nature alive and in the eyes of the media.

An authoritative collection including over 70 brand new poems celebrating the strength, beauty, and joy of being a woman, from the best-selling author of Wild Hope and Words to Live By. To the Women is a celebration of the beauty, strength, and joy of being a woman. In this love letter to our...

'My current bedside book.' Meghan, Duchess of Sussex 'A raw and honest read that makes you feel seen and understood in a way that will bring you to tears.' Hilary Swank 'A book to keep close and come back to over and over again like you would a best friend.' Jennifer Love Hewitt A mother is born...

Christy Peacock is devastated when an unfounded scandal throws her life as a drama teacher at a prestigious Sydney school off track. With her dream career in shreds, she spontaneously answers an ad to work at Currawong Creek, a horse therapy camp for troubled children nestled among the...

The Courage to Embrace the Gifts and Losses in Life If you never knew disappointment, would you ever grow? If you had never felt loss, could you have compassion for another? Without real heartache, would you ever know the greatness of love? On When the Heart Breaks, David Whyte invites you to...

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least 30 years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture.

Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its...

As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others? We are told constantly to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast, amongst other activities; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun. In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again.