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The Island - Victoria HislopA moving and absorbing holiday read that pulls at the heartstrings' Victoria Hislop tells a dramatic tale of four generations, illicit love, violence and leprosy, from the thirties, through the war, to the present day. On the brink of a life changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis

This volume presents the Greek text with facing-page translation

the world we live in would be unrecognisable without the contribution of the Ancient Greeks

Conjunctions and Numerals have been excluded from the main vocabulary and grouped together at the end of the book

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus’ long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations

from the man-eating Cyclops and the evil sorceress Circe

Veronica lives with the same dreams and desires that every young person in any part of the world has

were universally admired as examples of great literature which could never be surpassed

Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration

but rather a specially good kind of life

Invasion comes without warning

This volume and its companion volume devoted to the second half of the poem provide a detailed commentary

The detectives must consider another quest: what has happened to Uncle Gaius

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