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Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood Icon Was Styled by William Travilla by Andrew Hansford with Karen Homer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fashion
William Travilla is one of the best costume designers of all time and Marilyn Monroe his most famous client. Dressing Marilyn will focus on the striking dresses that Travilla designed for Marilyn, from his early work on the dark thriller 'Don't Bother to Knock' and the gorgeous pink dress in which Maril ...Show more
Odyssey (The Usborne Illustrated) by Sebastien van Donnick; Homer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Illustrated Originals Ser.
A beautiful edition of Homer's classic tale from Ancient Greece, vividly retold to delight modern readers. Dramatic, stylish illustrations bring to life brave Odysseus' encounters with furious gods, bewitching goddesses, terrifying monsters and a man-eating Cyclops... A beautiful gift for any child who ...Show more
The Book of Origins by Trevor Homer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Reference
Everything has an origin. This book is for people who want to know how, or when, things began, where they came from, and why they started. And when it has a human origin, such as Christianity or Ferrari cars, the name of the person who started it. Everyday items such as the clothes we wear, the food we ...Show more
The Homeric Hymns by Jules Cashford, Homer, Homer
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals. Together they offer the most vivid picture we have ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'War, the bringer of tears...' War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army and its mightiest wa ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer Homer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The IliadBy HomerAnd Achilles answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already. Give ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
$65.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
The Iliad
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Iliad (Everyman's Library) by Homer (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
$37.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on ...Show more
The Iliad (Homer) Translated by Robert Fagles by Homer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem "The Iliad" is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in "Penguin Classics". One of the foremost achievements in W ...Show more
The Iliad: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition | Reading Level: very good
One of the epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. In his introduction, the author observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.