This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems.
This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems.
This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems.
This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems. "The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the cel…
"Before the Muses offers a comprehensive anthology in new English translations, of the best writing from the Mesopotamian lands of Babylonia and Assyria: myths, epics, love poetry, prophecy, hymns, prayers, stories, wisdom, proverbs, and magic spells. The richness and variety of…
It is a long journey from the decaying fragments of stone and papyrus upon which ancient Egyptian literature is written to finished translations of that civilization's classics. In Echoes of Egyptian Voices, translator John L. Foster shows how these bits and pieces, hints of old…