Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction & Notes by Agnes Cardinal Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory & financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters & which ultimately lead to tragedy he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection & Dostoevsky's own views afflictions & manners His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot ...

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium the gentle & naive epileptic Prince Myshkin
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Disc 1 1 Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree 2 My Father's Son 3 Imposters of Life's Magazine 4 Sitting in My Tree 5 The Skeleton & the Roundabout 6 Knocking Nails into My House 7 End of the Road 8 Morning Sunshine 9 Days of the Broken Arrows Disc 2 1 Worn Red Carpet 2 Neanderthal Man 3 Victim of Circumstance 4 In the Summertime 5 Told You Twice 6 Lucky Man (Alternative Version) 7 Follow Me Follow (Alternative Version) ...

From the cool video game The Idolmaster Million Live! comes this beautiful PVC Statue She stands nearly 22 cm tall in 18 scale & comes in a window box packaging ...

This is a practical resource packed with &philosophical thought experiments&
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A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic in E V Rieu's classic translation The Iliad is the first & the ...

Translated by George Chapman with Introductions by Jan Parker Hector bidding farewell to his wife & baby son Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens Penelope at the loom Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy
- scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation The questions about mortality & identity that Homer's heroes ask the bonds of love respect & fellowship that motivate them have gripped audiences for three millennia Chapman's Iliad & Odyssey are great English epic poems but they are also two of the liveliest & readable translations of Homer Chapman's freshness makes the everyday world of nature & the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield & Mount Olympus His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as at once vital & distant & is enriched by the perspectives of humanist thought
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Thrilling comic-strip action with monsters mighty heroes & even mightier gods & goddesses 40 pages Williams Marcia ...

A translation of Homer's great epic poem Fitzgerald has also translated Homer's The Odyssey & Virgil's Aeneid ...

An ancient Greek epic which underpins the whole of western literature Homer's The Iliad is a timeless evocation of the struggle to retain a sense of honour & virtue amidst the horrors of war This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Martin Hammond The Iliad is the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization The story centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth & final year of the war between the Greeks & the Trojans It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon & Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events which leads to Achilleus' killing of Hektor & determines the ultimate fate of Troy But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism With compassion & humanity he presents a universal & tragic view of the world of human life lived under the shadow of suffering & death set against a vast & largely unpitying divine background The Iliad is the first of the world's great tragedies Martin Hammond's acclaimed translation is accompanied by a full introduction & a comprehensive index Seven Greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c 8th-7th century BC) the poet to whom the composition of the Iliad & Odyssey are attributed The Iliad is the oldest surviving work of Western literature but the identity
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- of Homer himself is a complete mystery with no reliable biographical information having survived If you enjoyed the Iliad you might like Homer's Odyssey also available in Penguin Classics' Martin Hammond's modern prose version is the best & most accurate there has ever been' Peter Levi Independent'A fine Iliad for our times' Philip Howard The Times

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