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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Epitrepontes Epitrepontes Menander of Athens reissue of Murray's 1948 translation OL1213928W
Tragedies Tragedies Seneca the Younger,Paul Jal,François-Régis Chaumartin,F.-R. Chaumartin "Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the aut… OL15223083W
Satirae Satirae Horace The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with … OL15249113W
Heroides Heroides Ovid,Kennedy,Arthur Palmer Index of proper names appended OL16752749W
A darker shade of Sweden A darker shade of Sweden Stieg Larsson,Åsa Larsson,Per Wahlöö,John-Henri Holmberg,Hakan Nesser,Anna Jansson,Rolf Borjlind,Henning Mankell,Johan Theorin,Åke Edwardson,Inger Frimansson,Eva Gabrielsson,Sara Stridsberg,Katarina Wennstam,Maj Sjöwall,Tove Alsterdal,Alessandro Bassini,Malin Persson Giolito,Cilla Borjlind,Magnus Montelius,Dag Ohrlund,Veronica von Schenck "Containing seventeen stories, never before published in English, 'A Darker Shade of Sweden' illuminates this beguiling country and its inhabitants as never before. Included are stories from such Swe… OL18156573W
Studi su volgarizzamenti italiani due-trecenteschi Studi su volgarizzamenti italiani due-trecenteschi Paolo Rinoldi Il volume raccoglie cinque contributi relativi ad una delle articolazioni più rigogliose e feconde della prosa toscana due-trecentesca, quella dei volgarizzamenti, sia dal latino che dal francese, an… OL18492198W
Scruples Scruples Judith Krantz Its trilling, and intersting. Very attractive OL1853508W
Just so stories for little children. Stalky & Co. Just so stories for little children. Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling "Once upon a time O best beloved," and so begins one of the best loved and most respected collections of stories for children, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. This edition includes the author's ow… OL19903W
Argonautika Argonautika Apollonius Rhodius "Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the third century B.C.E., is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollo… OL2382363W
Pollicino Pollicino Charles Perrault The youngest of seven brothers outwits an ogre and brings back riches to his poor family. OL24292683W
Ami des enfans Ami des enfans Arnaud Berquin The Children's Friend OL4518525W
Guards! Guards! Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett Here there be dragons ... and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for t… OL453735W
Fables Fables Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several v… OL50348W
Feather on the moon Feather on the moon Phyllis A. Whitney Seven years after her child had been taken from her, Jennifer Blake received an invitation from wealthy Corinthea Arles, who clamed to have found her daughter. From the moment Jennifer arrived at Mrs… OL60508W
Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Apuleius,Werner Krenkel To the Right Honourable and Mighty Lord, THOMAS EARLE OF SUSSEX, Viscount Fitzwalter, Lord of Egremont and of Burnell, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Iustice of the forrests and Chases… OL658250W
Moralia Moralia Plutarch The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also… OL723491W
Prometheus Bound Prometheus Bound Aeschylus An ancient Greek tragedy attributed to Aeschylus. The play follows the sufferings of the Titan Prometheus who has been fastened to a rock by Zeus as punishment for giving the knowledge of fire to man… OL856902W
Carmina Carmina Horace "The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when - as has usually been the c… OL88217W
Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Ovid Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by lov… OL97777W