Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert graves

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  • THE COMEDIES OF TERENCE
    ROBERT GRAVES
    Terence achieved in his brief twenty-six years a standard of stylistic perfection and artistic restraint that ranked him, along with Plautus, as the greatest of the Roman comic playwrights. He was, at the very least, a gifted translator and adaptor, having used Greek New Comedies as the basis for all six of his extant plays. How far his own contribution exceeded that of simple ...

    $1,139.00

  • THE COMEDIES OF TERENCE
    ROBERT GRAVES
    Terence achieved in his brief twenty-six years a standard of stylistic perfection and artistic restraint that ranked him, along with Plautus, as the greatest of the Roman comic playwrights. He was, at the very least, a gifted translator and adaptor, having used Greek New Comedies as the basis for all six of his extant plays. How far his own contribution exceeded that of simple ...

    $1,139.00

  • THE ANGER OF ACHILLES
    ROBERT GRAVES
    The controversial prose-and-verse translation of the ancient war epic by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius—“full of new and provocative ideas” (Kirkus Reviews).   The war between the Greeks and the Trojans has reached a fever pitch. Offended by Agamemnon, the great Greek warrior Achilles is in his tent, refusing to fight. But then Trojan prince Hector slaughters Achilles’s in...

    $229.00

  • GREEK GODS AND HEROES
    ROBERT GRAVES
    An accessible anthology of the greatest ancient Greek myths and legends for readers of all ages by the celebrated classicist and historical novelist.   According to the myths, gods and goddesses of ancient Greece lived on Mount Olympus and ruled the world of mortals. Famous heroes shaped the course of history, beautiful women drew the gazes of gods and men alike, and the gods w...

    $109.00

  • LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS
    ROBERT GRAVES
    The real story of T. E. Lawrence’s life as told by the author of I, Claudius. “A combination of history, biography, and . . . an amazingly human tale” (Boston Evening Transcript).   Immortalized in the film Lawrence of Arabia, the real T. E. Lawrence was a leader, a war strategist, and a scholar, and is here immortalized in an intimate biography written by his close friend, the...

    $229.00

  • PROCEED, SERGEANT LAMB
    ROBERT GRAVES
    The author of Sergeant Lamb’s America continues the fictionalized account of an Irish soldier fighting for the British during the Revolutionary War.   This is the second in a two-book series telling the story of Sgt. Roger Lamb, a non-commissioned officer in the British Army, who served in America during the American War of Independence. Captured with Gen. Johnny Burgoyne after...

    $249.00

  • CLAUDIO EL DIOS Y SU ESPOSA MESALINA
    ROBERT GRAVES
    En el díptico que integran "Yo, Claudio y Claudio el dios y su esposa Mesalina", la amplitud y la profundidad de los conocimientos sobre la Antigüedad clásica de Robert Graves (1895-1985) se conjugan con una prosa de enorme belleza a la que da aliento una poderosa y viva imaginación, capaz de reconstruir toda la grandeza y miseria de la Roma imperial. Segundo y último volumen d...
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    $425.00

  • DIOSES Y HÉROES DE LA ANTIGUA GRECIA. EXPLICADOS A LOS JÓVENES
    GRAVES, ROBERT
    Robert Graves, célebre autor de Yo, Claudio o La hija de Homero, pone al alcance de todos, jóvenes y mayores, los mitos griegos, imprescindibles para comprender no sólo la civilización griega, sino también para disfrutar en toda su riqueza del arte y la cultura occidentales. Las entretenidas historias protagonizadas por dioses como Zeus, Hera, Hermes o Poseidón, o por héroes co...
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    $239.00

  • THE ISLANDS OF UNWISDOM
    ROBERT GRAVES
    Swashbuckling historical fiction from the author of I, Claudius. “A cleverly balanced mixture of spice, fact, humor and adventure on and off the high seas” (Kirkus Reviews).   Set in the Age of Exploration, The Islands of Unwisdom tells the story of the ill-fated Don Álvaro de Mendaña y Neyra, a Spanish explorer set on finding the Solomon Islands, the mythical source of King So...

    $249.00

  • HEBREW MYTHS
    ROBERT GRAVES / RAPHAEL PATAI
    The I, Claudius author’s “lightning sharp interpretations and insights . . . are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the Book of Genesis” (Kirkus Reviews).   This is a comprehensive look at the stories that make up the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, including the folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testamen...

    $279.00

  • THEY HANGED MY SAINTLY BILLY
    ROBERT GRAVES
    The author of I, Claudius tells the tale of a notorious nineteenth-century poisoner: “A must for true-crime addicts” (Kirkus Reviews).   A self-confessed forger, cheat, thief, and petty criminal, William Palmer was also a surgeon and a racehorse owner during the Victorian era who doped horses, fixed races, philandered unapologetically, and generally behaved as an all-around rog...

    $229.00

  • THE READER OVER YOUR SHOULDER
    ROBERT GRAVES / ALAN HODGE
    “The best book on writing ever published” (Patricia T. O’Conner, author of Woe Is I).   When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and as they labored over their new project, they witnessed the fall of France and the evacu...

    $249.00

  • DIOSES Y HÉROES DE LA ANTIGUA GRECIA
    GRAVES ROBERT
    Robert Graves, el célebre autor de "Yo, Claudio" o La hija de Homero, pone al alcance de todos, jóvenes y mayores, los mitos griegos, imprescindibles para comprender no sólo la civilización griega y aun la romana, sino también para disfrutar en toda su riqueza del arte y la cultura occidentales.Las entretenidas historias protagonizadas por dioses como Zeus, Hera, Hermes o Posei...
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    $178.00

  • LOS MITOS GRIEGOS 1
    GRAVES ROBERT
    Creador en el ambito de la novela de obras tan conocidas como YO, CLAUDIO o CLAUDIO EL DIOS, Robert Graves (1895-1985) fue tambien autor de obras ensayisticas en las que concurren una prodigiosa erudicion y una admirable intuicion poetica. LOS MITOS GRIEGOS sistematiza el amplisimo material de la mitologia clasica de acuerdo con un metodo consistente en reunir en una narracion ...
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    $455.00

  • LA DIOSA BLANCA
    ROBERT GRAVES
    Ensayo erudito y apasionado, reconstruye el lenguaje mágico de la Europa antigua mediterránea y septentrional, vinculado a ceremonias religiosas populares en honor a la diosa Luna. Graves nos narra cómo en Europa y Oriente Próximo existían culturas matriarcales que adoraban a una Diosa Suprema y que reconocían a los dioses masculinos solo como sus hijos, consortes o víctimas pa...
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    $1,135.00

  • YO, CLAUDIO
    ROBERT GRAVES
    Llegado a los últimos años de su vida y temeroso de caer asesinado víctima de una conspiración, el emperador Claudio (o " Clau-Clau-Claudio " , o " Claudio el idiota " ) decide consignar por escrito su larga y azarosa vida desde los días en que gobernaba su tío abuelo Augusto, a cuya sombra su esposa Livia movía los hilos del poder. En esta novela inolvidabl...
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    $349.00

  • LOS MITOS GRIEGOS 2
    ROBERT GRAVES
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    $409.00

  • YO CLAUDIO
    GRAVES ROBERT
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    $245.00