Canti: The Poems of Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

Covers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death....

The Jewish War - Josephus- Translated by G. Williamson - Penguin Classics

Flavius Josephus; E. Mary Smallwood (Introduction by, Revised by, Notes by); Betty Radice; G. A. Williamson (Translator, Introduction by)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, li...

Islamic Mystical Poetry

Mahmood Jamal

Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbue...

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Dante Alighieri

A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature.An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally...

Tigerfish

David Metzenthen

From best-selling and award-winning author David Metzenthen comes a powerful new novel. Better in here, they think. Safe and sound. No shocks and no surprises. Twenty-one degrees Celsius all year round. Ryan Lanyon lives in the shadows of a shopping centre on the far side of the city. His brother is a b...