The Kushnameh

Iranshah

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• The first English translation of a strange and unusual Persian epic, this action-packed tale of an evil, monstrous king explores questions of nature a... Lees meer

The Consuming Fire

Liane M Feldman

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• Uncovering an ancient foundation myth, and literary tour de force, obscured within the modern Bible. Embedded within the Bible lies a largely unknown ... Lees meer

Kingdoms in Peril

Feng Menglong

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• This abridged edition introduces readers to the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel. One of the great works of Chinese literatur... Lees meer

Needle at the Bottom of the Sea

Tony K Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• "Brave and vivid."-- New York Review of Books These enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu and Muslim traditions converged on ti... Lees meer

Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts

Elis Gruffydd

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• The original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the M... Lees meer

Jangar

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• The first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history. This is the first English translation of Jangar , the heroic epic of the Kalmyk... Lees meer

The History of the Church

Eusebius of Caesarea

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• Eusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church , remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianit... Lees meer

Collected Ancient Greek Novels

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but a... Lees meer

The Analects

Confucius

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• A fresh translation of one of the most recognized texts of the premodern world: The Analects is a must-read for those interested in China's past, pres... Lees meer

The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of th... Lees meer

Ramayana

William Buck

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• An elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically diff... Lees meer

Three Kingdoms

Guanzhong Luo

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• "A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."-- New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of th... Lees meer

Fabulous Machinery for the Curious

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• An absorbing, joyous, and colorful collection of stories from the qissa genre. Fabulous Machinery for the Curious presents the first English translati... Lees meer

Basho

Basho

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō. Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694) is arg... Lees meer

Prisoner of the Infidels

Osman Of Timisoara

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translatio... Lees meer

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

Ibrahim Muhawi, Sharif Kanaana

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method of ... Lees meer

Ancient Egyptian Literature

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary fo... Lees meer

Mahabharata

William Buck

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience in nations with radically different languages and cultures as the Mahabharata . Writte... Lees meer

Sappho

Sappho

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to... Lees meer

Medea

Euripides

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacr... Lees meer

The Poem of the Cid

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• One of the greatest works of Spanish literature, this eight-hundred-year-old saga narrates the legendary exploits of the soldier-adventurer Ruy Díaz o... Lees meer

DAO de Jing

Laozi

• Paperback | Engels | World Literature in Translation
• The Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the sixth and f... Lees meer