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Daniel Mendelsohn
Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France’s best foreign book of the year.
‘Astounding’ Sebastian Barry
‘A masterpiece’ Ayad Akhtar
‘This little book is ruminative, humane, and…
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Homer
A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's The…
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This volume including eight essays and an interview offers new insight into Daniel Mendelsohn’s first three memoirs (The Elusive Embrace, The Lost, and An Odyssey). The authors analyze how Mendelsohn’s…
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The role of the critic, Daniel Mendelsohn writes, is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining…
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Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust–an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the…
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This profound exploration of the mysteries of identity weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho. Mendelsohn uses his own divided…
A study of Euripides’ political plays - Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women . It makes use of insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender and Athenian notions of civic…
Presenting a study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women , this book uses different insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity. It…
Presents interpretations of some of our most important films - from the work of Pedro Almodovar to Brokeback Mountain , United 93 and World Trade Center , 300 , Troy…
Daniel Mendelsohn’s Three Rings is erudition, essayism, and memoir, made to dance together like a visible clockworks-or literary scholarship such as Ricky Jay might have practiced it onstage. This little…
The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation.
‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace … He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most…
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In Waiting for the Barbarians, Daniel Mendelsohn–hailed by The Economist as one of the finest critics writing in the English language today–brings together twenty-four of his recent critical essays.
Presents the story of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading in the wake of the father’s late-in-life enrollment in his son’s undergraduate seminar, where the two engage in…
From the award-winning memoirist, critic, and best-selling author: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer’s epic masterpiece.
Mary Renault
‘A brilliant work of art that deserves a far wider readership’ Ian McEwan FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNION Reunion is a little-known novel.
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C.P. Cavafy
The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no…
A hardcover omnibus edition of the two classic novels in which Mary Renault brilliantly recreated the legendary hero Theseus and his defeat of the Minotaur. CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS.
In her inventive…
The collected works–including the previously unpublished final poems–of the greatest modern Greek poet, translated by the renowned critic, classicist, and award-winning author of The Lost. Powerfully moving, searching, and wise…
Henry Green
First published in Great Britain by the Hogarth Press in 1926 –Title page verso.
Sybille Bedford
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities…
Daniel Mendelsohn,Aimee Ng
New volume in the Frick Diptych series pairs an essay by Frick curator Aimee Ng with a contribution by bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn.
John Williams
Just eighteen when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic and must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his…
For the first time, a collected edition of the major works of John Williams, including the acclaimed novel Stoner.
John Williams’s three major works have come to be recognized as…
Euripides,Robin Robertson,Daniel Mendelsohn
Originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by Vintage classics
Isabelle Boccon-Gibod,Daniel Mendelsohn
Reinvents the family portrait and provokes us to reflect on family as the fundamental cell on which every society is based.
C.P. Cavafy,Constantine Cavafy
An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy-including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems-now published in one…
Barbara Bray,Daniel Mendelsohn,Jean D'Ormesson
Dealsw with the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world…
A beautifully somber photographic meditation on an ancient Jewish ritual
The Jewish tradition of leaving a stone or pebble at the gravesite of a loved one is an ancient custom…
A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is included.
