The Greek Myths: Complete Edition33 reviews Robert Graves Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993 The Definitive Edition of the Greek Myths + Scholarly, but accessible. + Not Free SF Reader Robert Graves is known for his eccentricities and eclectic readings of the classic Greek myths. But this is the definitive edition because it gives the literary sources, from Homer to Pausanias and many others. I also own the Folio Society's slipcased, handsomely illustrated edition of the same ...             Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories49 reviews Franz Kafka Schocken Books Inc., 1995 Doesn't Get More Influential than this + Short stories = Fantastic + Not for everybody + good stories,             Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)20 reviews Michel de Montaigne Penguin Classics, 1993 Essays + During Reading, Montaigne Becomes A Light-Hearted, Warm, Beneficially Critical and Thought-Provoking Friend + The Shakespeare of Essayists Montaigne. He has lessons for us all, I've found. Some of the lessons are hard. He writes about everything, but most of all, he writes about himself. There is a painful clarity to his work - but that cliche term does nothing to properly explain what it is he accomplishes with his writing. ...             The Prince (Penguin Classics)307 reviews Niccolo Machiavelli Penguin Classics, 1999 A fantastic tour de force for political realism + Better than expected + Only One End, but Many Means Written with an accessible yet supremely elegant prose, I found Machiavelli's most famous work a delightful, provocative chronicle of political realism. Written as an open letter to a Renaissance-era ruler, Machiavelli prescribes the ins and outs of how to seize, defend and expand a kingdom, using ...             Bend Sinister19 reviews Vladimir Nabokov Vintage, 1990 Love and Madness in a Totalitarian State + A key to Nabokov's oeuvre + Curlicue Oblique + In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man runs from the King             Pompeii: Public and Private Life (Revealing Antiquity)4 reviews Paul Zanker Harvard University Press, 1999 Private Houses in Pompeii + Excellent book + Pompeiian textbook + Zanker on Pompeii             Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics)33 reviews Herodotus Penguin Classics, 1996 . . . excellent for Graduate students and pundits as well. + Intensely Valuable and Eminently Interesting + My Favorite Read From Ancient Greece + great volume + Fact, Fiction, and Political Insight             Memoirs of Hadrian60 reviews Marguerite Yourcenar Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963 Journey in the depths of a pagan mind + One of the great books... + Memoirs of Hadrian + Notes on maturity             The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)31 reviews Penguin Classics, 1984 The best translation of Dante's Commedia + Review of this edition + An oustanding translation. + My favorite translation             L'Etranger (Collection Folio, 2) (French Edition)17 reviews Albert Camus Gallimard Education, 1990 Classique de la litterature francaise + "Mieux vaut régner en enfer que servir au paradis" + Aujourd'hui, Maman est morte. Je fais mon debut comme instite a un lycee. Pour le cours de francais V, on va commencer la litterature avec L'ETRANGER de Camus. Je crois que c'est l'endroit ideal pour commencer, car le livre se presente simplement au lecture, mais le mene aux themes importants de la philosophie ...             The Drowned and the Saved21 reviews Primo Levi Vintage, 1989 As important as a book gets + Final Ruminations By A Humane, Thoughtful Intellectual Survivor + Witnesses for the Lost + Trying to Understand the "Un-Understandable" + A Note             The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)31 reviews Tacitus Penguin Classics, 1956 A Vital Primary Source on Imperial Rome + the armchair historian reads again + Tactius Part of the Whole + Definitive Primary Source On the History Of Imperial Roman             Good Bye to All That: An Autobiography57 reviews Robert Graves Richard West, 1980 Robert Graves memoir + Good-bye to all that is the best British memoir written on World War I + Very good memoir of World War I + It's Not All That             The Oxford Classical Dictionary30 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 A Classicists' Classic ... + Monumental and magnificent + Informative + Very important book             Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum5 reviews Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Princeton University Press, 1996 A fine piece of scholarship, but also an intriguing read + Excellent history of ancient Roman houses + A Discovery of Ancient Social Stucture. Wallace-Hadrill's book begins with specific facts and shows how these lead to interesting questions. For example... because bed widths varied, and tended to be quite narrow, we can't be sure whether people slept alone or in pairs; in fact, we can't even be very certain how many people lived in a ...             The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)370 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov Penguin Classics, 2001 Simply enchanting + Excellent book, copyediting wanting There are a lot of great reviews for this book already. So I will only repeat after them that this is a must read for every person capable of thinking. This book is not really about satire on Stalin's Russia - it could have been written about any historical period of pretty much any country. This ...             Later Short Stories, 1888-1903 (Modern Library)6 reviews Anton Chekhov Modern Library, 1999 Finally + The master of realistic short fiction + Chekhov: The Great Humanist + Bloodied but unbowed + Not entirely the best selection of the uncannily modern C.             Rembrandt by Himself3 reviews Yale University Press, 1999 The Master + The autobiography as a series of masterpieces + Wonderful book on the self portraits of the master. It's about time that I found a (good) book on this subject. Rembrandts self-portraits (I feel) are of his most important work. The quality of the prints are wonderful...unlike 90% of the art related books floating around. The color reproduction is more accurate than most. This is a must have for ...             The Best of Myles (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)8 reviews Flann O'Brien Dalkey Archive Press, 1999 YES! I Can Finally Own My Own Copy! + The real thing. + Brilliant + The best of Flann + Five for peerless Myles; zero for the editing.             The Leopard (Everyman's Library (Cloth))67 reviews Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Everyman's Library, 1991 Breathtaking + Il Gattopardo + One of the most beautiful novel ever written + Unsentimental, Unapologetic, and Uncompromising + A great classic about Sicily