"Greek Tragedies, Volume III" contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes", translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus", translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae",...

Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father's employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at he...

In these three short books – "Servabo: A Fin De Siecle Memoir", "Miss Kirchgessner", and "The Medlar Tree", collected in one volume in English for the first time – Luigi Pinto retraces a life marked, often in spite of itself, by politics. At once int...

<p>In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different...

The publication of "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers – some delighted, oth...

"Euripides I" contains the plays "Alcestis", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea", translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles", translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University...

"Euripides II" contains the plays "Andromache", translated by Deborah Roberts; "Hecuba", translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Suppliant Women", translated by Frank William Jones; and "Electra", translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule. Sixty years ago...

"Euripides III" contains the plays "Heracles", translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Trojan Women", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; and "Ion", translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts. Sixt...

"Euripides IV" contains the plays "Helen", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "The Phoenician Women", translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and "Orestes", translated by William Arrowsmith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a moment...

"Euripides V" includes the plays "The Bacchae", translated by William Arrowsmith; "Iphigenia in Aulis", translated by Charles R. Walker; "The Cyclops", translated by William Arrowsmith; and "Rhesus", translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago,...