Books like Gilgamesh by Derrek Hines

The Odyssey, an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, follows Odysseus on his long journey home after the Trojan War and stands as the second oldest surviving work of Western literature.

King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, explores the descent of a monarch as he divides his kingdom and faces the consequences of his decisions.

In *Inferno*, Dante Alighieri, lost and bewildered, is guided through the nine circles of Hell by the Roman poet Virgil, beginning his quest to return to divine light.

A curated collection of William Shakespeare’s 37 plays and 6 poems, featuring classic works such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and sonnets.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic epic, The Song of Hiawatha, adapts the legends of North American Indian tribes—particularly the Ojibway—using the collected material of historian Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.

A prose English translation of Virgil’s Latin epic The Aeneid, featuring fresh illustrations and informational appendices.

An epic tale of friendship, immortality, and the search for wisdom in ancient Mesopotamia.

"The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world's oldest epic masterpiece. More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits by finding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presents translations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman of the entire Gilgamesh narrative tradition, with some texts now in English for the first time. In addition to the eleven tablets of the great Akkadian epic, written about 1700 B.C.E., the book includes seven Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh, written before 2000 B.C.E., as well as the later Hittite version and other related sources, among them a Babylonian parody of the epic." ""Criticism" provides interpretive essays by William Moran, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Riykah Harris and concludes with a modern poetic response to the Gilgamesh epic by Hillary Major." "A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.

A new version of the Babylonian legend of King Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu.

David Ferry’s verse translation brings the ancient Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh to modern readers with lively, readable lines.