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With a glossary and more than 200 classically prepared Greek recipes, Food from Many Greek Kitchens adds a greater depth of flavor to each dish.

A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labrinthine twists of event, The Magus is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, a work that ranks with the best novels of modern times.

In prose that ranges from the lyrical to the tersely realist, Karagatsis weaves a classic tale that is wide-ranging in its literary references, and devastating in its psychological nuance.

A cherished heirloom reveals the destinies of three generations of women in a powerful saga of lost love by the bestselling Greek author of The House by the River.

Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk, the Scapegoat is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of the post-World War II era with the Greece of today, a country facing dangerous times once again.

The Murderess is a bone-chilling tale of crime and punishment with the dark beauty of a backwoods ballad.

The first book in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu.

Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.

In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous.

The last poems of this major Greek poet are tinged with sadness and loss, but they also hum with vitality and an odd note of hope.

The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles

If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life.

Cavafy has now at last fallen upon translators who can do justice to his wry melodious poems, glinting with insight as if from veins of mica.

Part of the modern literary canon, Zorba the Greek, has achieved widespread international acclaim and recognition.

Corelli's Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.