View every book in the Penguin Epics series.
This beautiful limited edition boxed set contains the stunningly designed new Penguin Epics series: twenty short tales of human adventure, legend and myth. Penguin Epics depict the most extreme acts of heroism, ambition, bravery and violence, and in doing so they reveal mankind's most profound aspirations and darkest fears. From the rip-roaring exploits of Alexander the Great, through Dante’s terrifying description of the Descent into Hell, to the swashbuckling adventures of Sindbad, these works will take the reader on a journey through the most astonishing and heroic legends of the past four-and-a-half thousand years of literature.
The boxed set includes:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Exodus
Odysseus Returns Home
Homer
Xerxes Invades Greece
Herodotus
The Sea, The Sea
Xenophon
The Abduction of Sita
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Apollonius
The Destruction of Troy
Virgil
The Serpent's Teeth
Ovid
The Fall of Jerusalem
Josephus
The Madness of Nero
Tacitus
Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius
The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great
Beowulf
Siegfried's Murder
Sagas and Myths of the Northmen
The Sunjata Story
The Descent into Hell
Dante
King Arthur's Last Battle
Malory
The Voyages of Sindbad
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