Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
10 best books like Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Betty De Shong Meador): Collected Poems, 1909-1962, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Mother of Storms, The Mammoth Hunters, Shakespeare After All, Don't Call Us Dead, Shakespeare's Language, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
Author | T.S. Eliot |
ISBN | 0151189781 |
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that T.S. Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of...
Author | Anonymous |
ISBN | 0141026286 |
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries....
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
Author | Diane Wolkstein |
ISBN | 0060908548 |
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period.
With the long-awaited publication of this book, we have for the first time in any modern literary form one of the most vital and important of ancient myths: that...
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
ISBN | 1580051847 |
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the...
Author | John Barnes |
ISBN | 0812533453 |
In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.
A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of...
Author | Jean M. Auel |
ISBN | 0553381644 |
Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel continues the...
Author | Marjorie Garber |
ISBN | 0385722141 |
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country's foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie...
Author | Danez Smith |
ISBN | 1555977855 |
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten...
Author | Frank Kermode |
ISBN | 0374527741 |
A magnum opus from our finest interpreter of The Bard
The true biography of Shakespeare--and the only one we need to care about--is in his plays. Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished scholar of sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century literature, has been thinking about Shakespeare's...
Author | Thomas Malory |
ISBN | 1401307809 |
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
Author | Helen Vendler |
ISBN | 0674637127 |
Helen Vendler, widely regarded as an accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as a guide to some of the best-known poems in the English language.
In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler interprets imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing...
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
ISBN | 0143104950 |
The poetry gets five stars, but the edition only gets two. With modernized spelling but no notes or context, Marlowe's translations of Ovid's Elegies and of Lucan's First Book are especially difficult to understand. This slim, inexpensive book (Dover Thrift Editions) might be useful if you already...
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story opens, they are kind of dull at home, upset with the increasing familiarity of both two- and four legged neighbours. What to do? Luckily, an old manuscript of the learned...