Editions · Reading Guides
RavensEdge Publishing makes editions and reading guides for the great works of literature and thought: the text itself, free to read, with the history, translations and ideas around it.
Raphael, The School of Athens, 1509–11 (detail), fresco in the Vatican.
Our Mission
To make the great works attractive, accessible and accurate: editions that are a pleasure to read, free and easy to reach, and checked against the original page.
Editions worth reading and keeping
Set like a printed book, in burgundy and gold: a contents page, true page numbers, clean verse and prose.
Easy to reach, easy to understand
Free to read online, most editions also as PDFs, with guides to the translations, characters and terms.
A text and notes to trust
Every text checked line by line against printed scans; every claim checked against its sources.
The Catalog
Edition & Reading Guide
Pope’s translation of the whole poem, free online and as a PDF, with a guide to the modern translations and the world behind the war.
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Reading Guide
Translations compared, characters, mythology and the ancient world of Homer’s epic, in English, German, French and Spanish.
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Edition
Marcus Aurelius in Haines’s translation, annotated, with historical context and cross-references.
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Edition
Jebb’s translation of Oedipus the King, scene by scene with his notes, and the myths, characters and Athenian theater around the play.
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Edition & Reading Guide
Wharton’s literal translation of the fragments, with the Greek and his notes, free online, and a guide to the modern translations and the world of Lesbos.
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Classic essays on the works we publish, from the public domain, each with a recommended translation.
Essay · Virginia Woolf
What it means to read the Greeks across a gulf of language and time.
Poem · Alfred Tennyson
Odysseus, home at last, restless for one more voyage.
Criticism · Aristotle
The first theory of tragedy, which holds up Oedipus the King as its model.
Essay · Sigmund Freud
Freud’s reading of Sophocles’ play.
Essay · Matthew Arnold
A Victorian critic on the emperor and his notebook.
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