Excerpt from the book:Sweet little Jesu, sweet little Jesu.Sing high, sing low, etc.Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Born is the King of Israel.About the AuthorGilbert James (1865-1941) illustrated copies of the Rubaiyat, and most will have come across the work of Gilbert James. He was one of the earliest and most prolific of the artists to take up the challenge of providing illustrations for FitzGerald's verses and his work was reprinted many times in different forms during the 20th century.This historical work has been digitally restored using the latest technology, making it available in digital and printed form. The original is painstakingly manually restored, leaving fresh, easy-to-read literature in modern fonts whilst keeping the author's intent in place wherever possible. This also enables Kindle versions to use the technology available such as Text-to-Speech, as our books are not simply printed PDFs.
James Morwood Book order






- 2018
- 2016
The Plays of Euripides
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Over the past decades there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and Euripides in particular. This book, updated in a second edition, reflects that revolution and aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems to set out on a new journey in each of his surviving 19 plays. Between general introduction and final summary, Morwood's chapters identify the themes that underlie the plays and concentrate, above all, on demonstrating the extraordinary diversity of this great dramatist. New to this edition, which is updated throughout, are further details on the individual plays and extra suggestions for background reading. The volume is a companion to The Plays of Sophocles and The Plays of Aeschylus (both by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swift's new introductory volume, Greek Tragedy.
- 2016
Athenaze : an introduction to ancient Greek. Book I
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek 3/e, provides a unique, bestselling course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the begining and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (423-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotuc and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucudides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also woven throughout.
- 2015
A Little Greek Reader
- 312 pages
- 11 hours of reading
This concise volume provides brief original reading matter to illustrate key features of Greek grammar and syntax. Each chapter begins with an account of the grammatical issue in question; this is then followed by a selection of passages from Greek literature, some shorter, some longer, covering a wide range of authors, and of considerable intrinsic interest.
- 2007
Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts.
- 2007
Our Greek and Latin Roots
- 72 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Charts the historial spread of the classical languages throughout the English- speaking world and uncovers the central part they play in giving English its current shape.
- 2007
Writing Latin
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A guide to writing Latin from scratch, covering various major grammatical constructions of the Latin language, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin. It contains longer passages for practising continuous prose composition.
- 2007
English History
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
- 2005
Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary
- 481 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Over 100,000 words, phrases, and translations between English and Latin.
- 2005
Features: Covers over 46,000 words and phrases, including new Latin words from Plautus, Terence, and Silver Latin, while common irregular stems are now given as headwords Existing appendices on historical, mythological, and geographical names have been expanded and new appendices include money, weights and measures, dates, and times, as well as sections on metre, and medieval Latin With a timeline of important dates, and biographies on Roman writers, this edition is packed with interesting and useful information on Roman history New in-text boxed notes provide help with language usage, and with difficult words and constructions.