Greek Influence On Literature from KALAMOS BOOKS
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Holy Aspic
by Marysmith, Joan
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- Reprint
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- 1997
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- 9780552996884
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Black Swan, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. Fenn Meadowcroft is battling with a crisis of faith. For Fenn, life seems empty and unfulfilled until Lex moves in next door. She is so taken by him that she almost fails to notice that her other neighbor, frail and elderly May, is finding life hard to cope with.. Item Price
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Children of Daedala
by Smith, Caighlan
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- New
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- New
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- 1st US Edition.
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- 2018
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- Hardcover
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- 9781630790868
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North Mankato MN: Switch Press, 2018 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. The sequel to Children of Icarus . Six months alone in the labyrinth has made her strong. But the search for the exit means gambling on an old 'friend' and going against everything she's been taught to survive. You know the labyrinth will have yet more horrors lurking… Read more about this item Item Price
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Medusa and Her Sisters
by Braux, Clare
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- 1994
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- 9780920259498
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London, ON: Moonstone Press, 1994 Book. New. Soft cover. .[It explores] modern day traumas against a background of the archetypical, Through the familiar stuff of the great Greek dramas an exploration of the power and exhilaration which goddess symbolism holds for many contemporary women.. Item Price
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Hercules. Ja¨mte efterskrift av Sten Lindroth och ordfo¨rklaringar av Carl Ivar Stahle
by Stiernhielm, Georg [Stiernhielmi, Georgi]
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- 1957
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Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells/ Gebers Forlag, 1957 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Stiernhielm [1598-1672) was the first Swedish poet to apply the verse meters of antique poets to the Swedish language, modifying their principle of long and short syllables to a principle of stressed and unstressed syllables, which better suits the phonology of Swedish. His most famous is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fair Greece,Sad Relic : Literary Philhellenism from Shakespeare to Byron
by Spencer,Terence
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- New Book from Greece
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- 2nd.ed.
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- 9780907978215
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Limni,Evvia,Greece: Denise Harvey, 1992 Book. New Book from Greece. Hardcover. 2nd.ed.. (New - will be sent to you direct from the publisher in Greece) "Scholarly and brilliantly written account" of the influence of Greece on the development of English literature. This absorbing book presents the picture of Greece from the fall of Constantinople to the arrival of Byron as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autobiography of Red : A Novel in Verse
by Carson, Anne
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- 1st Pbk Edition
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- 1999
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- Paperback
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- 9780375701290
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New York : Vintage , 1999 Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mantissa
by Fowles, John
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- 1st Canadian Edition
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- 1982
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- Hardcover
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- 9780002226288
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Toronto: Collins, 1982 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. Stated first edition. "It consists entirely of a presumably imaginary dialogue in a writer's head, between himself and an embodiment of the Muse Erato, after he wakes amnesiac in a hospital bed." 196p.Crisp tight copy,appears unread. DJ is a liitle tanned with very slight scuffing.. Item Price
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The Oldest Dead White European Males And Other Reflections on the Classics
by Knox, Bernard
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- 1993
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- 9780393312331
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New York: W.W.Norton, 1993 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. " In three erudite essays originally delivered as lectures, Knox stresses the relevance of the ancient Greeks (the "dead white males" of the title) to the modern world. Former director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, Knox defends the modern teaching of the humanities as "an education for democracy." While acknowledging… Read more about this item Item Price
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Land of Lost Gods : The Search for Classical Greece
by Stoneman, Richard
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- Fine
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- 1st UK Edition.
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
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- 9780091671402
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London: Hutchinson, 1987 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. The various travellers - antiquarian, archaological, architectural, acquisitive, artistic, the pilgrims and philhellenes or the merely curious, who visited and described what they saw and found in Greece. 364p.+ plates, maps bibliography, index. maps on end papers , . Item Price
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Victorians and Ancient Greece
by Jenkyns, Richard
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- 1980
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- 9780674936874
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Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1980 Book. Near Fine. Trade Pbk. xi, 386, + 4 leaves of plates : illus.. Item Price
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Elpenor
by Giradoux, Jean
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- 1958
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New York: Noonday Press, 1958 Book. Illus. by Trans Richard Howard & Renaud Bruce. Near Fine. Soft cover. First American publication of this spoof of the classics, originally published in French in 1919 and translated for this edition by Richard Howard. Homer's Odyssey mentions Elpenor only once ("the first to die was Elpenor') ; Giraudoux has supplied the facts of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Oldest Dead White European Males And Other Reflections on the Classics
by Knox, Bernard
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- Near Fine
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- 1st US Edition.
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- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780393034929
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New York: W.W.Norton, 1993 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. " In three erudite essays originally delivered as lectures, Knox stresses the relevance of the ancient Greeks (the "dead white males" of the title) to the modern world. Former director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, Knox defends the modern teaching of the humanities as "an education for democracy."… Read more about this item Item Price
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Atlantis
by Hunter, Maureen
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- First Thus.
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- 1997
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- 9781896239231
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Scirocco Drama, 1997 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus.. "A passionate encounter on the Greek island of Santorini . Ben is a Canadian in his fifties who has taken refuge on the sunny isle - thought to be the legendary Atlantis. He encounters Micea, a mystical local woman." First performed Feb.8 1996 at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Arion and the Dolphin : A Libretto By Vikram Seth
by Seth, Vikram
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- 1st UK Edition
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- 1994
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- 9781897580462
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London: Phoenix House, 1994 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st UK Edition. "Arion and the Dolphin is an opera in 9 scenes for professional and community performers. The music is composed by Alec Roth and the libretto is by Vikram Seth. It was commissioned by the Baylis programme at the English National Opera and was first performed in Plymouth on June… Read more about this item Item Price
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Greece and Britain.
by Casson Stanley
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- 1941
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- Hardcover
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London: William Collins, 1941 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Short guide to the historical connections between Britain and Greece, published in the early years of WW II. HC. 112p. illus (some col.). Item Price
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Iphigenie auf Tauris. Ein Schauspiel von Goethe. Durchsicht (ed. Lewis A. Rhoades, Rev.Carl Selmer)
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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- First Thus
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- 1961
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Boston, MA: D.C.Heath., 1961 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. German text with notes and glossary in English. 191p.glossary. Item Price
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Stones in Water
by Solway, David
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- 1st.Can Ed..
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- 1972
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- Paperback
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- 9780919197053
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Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1972 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st.Can Ed... Poems by a Canadian writer some inspired by his visits to Greece. "This book is affectionately dedicated to all the resolute and imaginative liars that I met in the island of Alonissos." 52p.. Item Price
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Greece and Britain.
by Casson Stanley
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- 1941
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London: Collins, 1941 Ex-Library. Very Good. Library Binding. Short guide to the historical connections between Britain and Greece, published in the early years of WW II. HC. 112p. illus (some col.) Neat tight copy, library stamps, rebound hardcover . Item Price
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Selected Poems 1946-1985
by Merrill, James
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- Fine
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- 1st.US Ed..
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- 9780679410829
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New York: A.A Knopf, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Ed... "This new SELECTED POEMS replaces an earlier selection of work by James Merrill entitled From the First Nine (1982), now out of print; it includes 121 poems taken from that work and from Late Settings (1985), but it excludes the long narrative poem The Changing Light at Sandover, which… Read more about this item Item Price
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Men in the Off Hours : Essays and Poetry
by Carson, Anne
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- 1st Canadian Edition.
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- 2001
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- Paperback
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- 9780676973563
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Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2001 Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition.. "Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final essay, Carson meditates on the recent death of her mother. Revelling in… Read more about this item Item Price
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