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Beowulf - A Verse Translation - Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism by Seamus Heaney (Foreword by); Daniel Donoghue
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"Accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." --New York Times Book Review "Excellent ancillary materials in this critical edition make a potentially alienating text and culture accessible and engaging." ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Michael R. Katz)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite." --Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
The Bhagavad Gita by Gavin Flood; Charles Martin (Translator); Charles Martin
$28.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
The Bhagavad Gita, the "Song of the Lord," is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great battle over succession to the throne. This new verse translation of the classic Sanskrit text combines the sk ...Show more
The English Bible - The Old Testament by Herbert Marks; Austin Busch; Gerald Hammond
$35.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, these long-awaited volumes bring together succinct introductions to each biblical book, detailed explanatory annotations, and a wealth of contextual and critical materials. Archaic words are explained, textual problems are lucidly discusse ...Show more
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allen Poe; G. R. Thompson
$36.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation ficti ...Show more
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