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This classic school text book, first published in 1939 contains a 1000 word vocabulary covering all the words that a beginning student of ancient Greek will need to know. Interrogative, Relative and...

This selected Latin vocabulary includes a thousand of the most commonLatin words and words-groups faced by those tackling Latin at an earlystage.Author: Clive ParsonsPublisher: Bristol Classical...

Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" marks the intrusion of modernity into the French poetic tradition. The carefully ordered collection (here presented in its 1861 edition) betrays a frighteningly...

The poetry of Alexandr Blok (1880-1921) marks the highest achievement of that fertile period in Russian literary history chiefly identified with the Symbolist movement. The aim of this book is to...

By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (1944), a collection of...

This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is well-known for his novel, "The Master...

Bulgakov: Heart of a DogAuthor: Mikhail BulgakovPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853993409ISBN-13:...

Bunin: Selected StoriesAuthor: I. A. BuninPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853993018ISBN-13:...

This school edition of Caesar's Gallic War book III contains an introduction giving background and context, the Latin text, notes on the text and vocabulary.Author: J. L. WhiteleyPublisher: Bristol...

This school edition of Caesar's Gallic War book VII contains an introduction giving background and context, the Latin text, notes on the text and vocabulary.Author: Julius CaesarPublisher: Bristol...

This work on the "Eclogues" attributed to Calpernius Siclicus establishes that seven poems of Calpernius were of Nernoian date, while the remaining four are of later date, probably Severan, and by...

This book contains the French text of Marie Cardinal's Les Mots Pour le Dire with English notes and introduction.Author: Marie CardinalPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01,...

Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. In this accessible short book Amanda Kolson Hurley explores the many facets of...

This text offers an introduction, Latin text, translation and literary commentary on seventeen poems by Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid. It is intended for students who are approaching the...

Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he...

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BCE), one of the finest lyrical poets of classical times, was also among the bawdiest. He was capable of producing poems of such forthright and ribald sensuality...

Characters of TheophrastusAuthor: TheophrastusPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 320 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853991880ISBN-13:...

Chekhov: Cherry OrchardAuthor: Anton ChekhovPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853992569ISBN-13:...

Chekhov's Dama s sobachkoy (1899) is perhaps the most celebrated example of his shorter prose and one of the most famous stories in Russian literature. The tale of an adulterous liaison, set in...

Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the classic selection edited by...

Chekhov's penultimate play has inspired a bewildering variety ofinterpretations - both in criticism and in performance - since itspremiere at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1901. Tri sestry hasbeen...

This book contains the Russian text of Chekhov's Three Stories and is accompanied with an introduction and notes.Author: Anton ChekhovPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01,...

Chekhov: Uncle VanyaAuthor: Anton ChekhovPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 104 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853992593ISBN-13:...

Driss Chira?bi's varied writing career began in 1954 with the publication of Le Passe simple which portrayed a darkness at the heart of Moroccan family life. In the novels which have followed he has...

This is a fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Drawing on the author's own experience, this novella paints an almost documentary-style...

In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point forexamination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces theoften dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship...

Of all the philosophical and rhetorical treatises of Cicero, his three books "On the Orator" (de Oratore) represent perhaps the most polished and appealing. Here is Rome's consummate orator and...

This useful school edition of all four of Cicero's speeches against Catiline consists of a concise but thorough and very useful Introduction giving background on Cicero, Roman history, the history of...

The ruins of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia have excited the imagination of scholars and tourists alike since early modern times. The removal of volcanic debris at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the...

Archaeology has progressed enormously since the early excavations of classical sites such as Olympia and Ephesus in the middle of the 19th century. New methods and modern techniques, which depend on...