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A son searching for answers. Two legendary kings. The first true hope that Odysseus may still live. In Books 3 and 4 of Homer’s The Odyssey, Telemachus continues the dangerous search for news of his missing father. Guided by Athena, he arrives at Pylos and is welcomed by the aged King Nestor...

A mysterious stranger. A magnificent kingdom. Songs of war that awaken memories too painful to hide. In The Odyssey: Books 7 & 8, the shipwrecked Odysseus enters the wealthy and seemingly enchanted land of the Phaeacians, where the next stage of his journey begins. Guided by Athena, Odysseus...

Neste conjunto de 40 sonetos, Fernando H. G. Nunes conduz o leitor por um caminho de dominação, êxtase, entrega e transcendência — sempre à beira do profano e do sublime. Com uma linguagem incisiva, visceral e litúrgica, os poemas expõem o corpo como altar e os desejos como oferenda. Não há pudor, mas há beleza. Não há censura, mas há ritmo. É um livro para quem não teme a força dos próprios instintos nem o abismo do próprio prazer.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the darkest path through Hell was only the beginning of the soul’s return to light? In *The Divine Comedy*, Dante Alighieri creates one of the supreme visions of Western literature: a journey through damnation, purification, and paradise that...

Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times bestseller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy and everything in between: Love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to survive when someone breaks up with you.

After ten years of war, Ulysses sets out on his journey home—but the sea shows no mercy, and the gods have plans of their own. The Odyssey is a tale of wonders, temptations, and dangers, and of a man who relies on his wit and courage to defy fate. Filled with adventure, emotion, and vivid imagery—this is one of those stories that has captivated readers for thousands of years.

A book that is number one on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks may be forgotten a decade later. Popularity in a moment of history does not guarantee that a book will endure beyond its own time. The Prophet however, has proven time and again to quietly find its way into the...

"NOW THERE ARE FIELDS WHERE TROY ONCE STOOD" —OVID During the great migrations of the second millennium BC, peoples from Western Europe-known as Achaeans or Sea Peoples-arrived in the Mediterranean region, either to settle there peacefully or to plunder and raze the land. They brought about...

Longfellow’s classic poem of the heroine Evangeline searching for her lost love Gabriel...

A time when our Arboreal neighbours where plentiful and now need a helping hand. The joy of climbing trees, and especially watching expert climbers like Capuchin monkeys. Our need to have trees and forests once again, and the tree huggers that keep our nature alive and in the eyes of the media.

From Instagram phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring themes of identity, loss, and what it means to rediscover yourself the love of my life is a poetry collection that traces the process of rediscovering a love of life after change, disconnection, and personal...

A “beautiful poetry collection” (Electric Lit) that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home in the world, from the award-winning author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters “There is, in Daughter of the Mountains, an...

The Pulitzer Prize winner’s final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for “His hands strip poetry to its nub.” —Los Angeles Times “Reading [Wright] is like...

I hate and love. How do I do this, you might ask. I don't know but I feel it and am tortured. A Penguin Classic Award-winning translator Stephanie McCarter presents a translation of the surviving poems of Catullus (84-54 BCE), the Roman poet and punk, the lover and the hater, the hedonist and...

Em Flores de alvenaria o autor nos lança nas calçadas do subúrbio e descortina um universo muitas vezes invisível por meio de textos, ora em verso, ora em prosa, sobre os mais variados temas: educação, negritude, liberdade, sexo, empatia. Com apresentação do cantor e compositor Chico César, a obra traz diálogos, relembra a situação da periferia em outras épocas e conta com poemas que costumam ser declamados na Cooperifa, evento criado pelo poeta que transformou um bar de Taboão da Serra em um evento cultural.

Never one to shy away from difficult subjects, in Love, Of a Kind Dennis brings awkwardness, pain and intimacy together in an inimitable and pithy way. In over 50 new poems, accompanied by woodcut engravings, not only does Dennis present us with a different kind of love, but he also presents us...

The world's greatest adventure story is now the source of the epic film from Christopher Nolan. Long considered the world's greatest adventure story, The Odyssey recounts the arduous struggles of a man who seeks to reunite with his family in ancient Greece. After the ten-year Trojan war, the...

Os mais de doze mil versos do grande épico de Homero em uma tradução premiada do helenista português Frederico Lourenço. As vinhetas e abertura desta edição em áudio são assinadas por Roberto Bürgel, e sua composição é toda pautada em instrumentos e escalas da Antiguidade Grega. Sua...

An evocative, uplifting, and thoughtful collection of poems steeped in the natural world, examining life and healing in the aftermath of trauma “An achievement . . . This book reminds us what poetry is capable of.”—José Olivarez, author of Promises of Gold See how the eagles lift now...

Nobel Prize laureate Czeslaw Milosz is a master poet whose verse has often reflected the ancient themes of the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil, and the wonders of life. New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001, the collection of a lifetime of work, also includes a book of new...