Platoonse liefde

Er is geen filosoof van de westerse wijsbegeerte geweest die zo gefascineerd was door het begrip eros (liefde) als Plato. Zijn denken is doordrongen van dit begrip. Twee dialogen hebben eros als thema...

Swearing With Shakespeare

Tanglewood Tales - Illustrated by Milo Winter

Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls is a book written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864), and forms the sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a masterful re-writing of we...

De held van het verhaal

In dit boek wordt de receptie van het Achillespersonage in de antieke en de latere literatuur behandeld. Centraal staan de volgende teksten: het onvoltooide epos Achilleïs van Statius - dat hier voor...

Monobiblos 5 - Hesiodos, Alle goden!

Vertaald door Ronald Blankenborg, Onder redactie van Vincent Hunink Hesiodos van Askra, een tijdgenoot en misschien zelfs een concurrent van de epische dichter Homeros (achtste eeuw v.Chr.), staat be...

The Moor's Last Sigh

'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive...

Macmillan Readers Frankenstein Elementary Pack

The Original Gothic-Horror Literary Classic! Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read-and mor...

Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles (497/6 406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn fr...

An Odyssey

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and NewsdayA Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford PrizeFrom award-winning memoirist and...

Cottage by the Sea

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A seaside town helps one young woman reclaim the light after darkness in an uplifting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.“Romantic, warm, and a...

Ancient Jewish Novels

In the Greco-Roman period there arose among the Jews, a new form for retelling Bible stories and for composing new religious stories - the novel. This work includes texts from the Jewish apocrypha suc...

The Bomb Girls Secrets

In the Phoenix Munitions Factory everyone has their secrets . . . As WWII rolls across Europe, Kitty boards a ship set for England; leaving her cruel father for war work in a munitions factory. Sh...