{"title":"Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions","description":"\u003cp\u003eRediscover timeless tales with Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. From Victorian mysteries to sweeping romances, these beautifully presented books offer a perfect escape into literary history. Start your classic collection today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ovid-heroides-ii-book-arthur-palmer-9781904675068","title":"Ovid: Heroides II","description":"The Heroides, a collection of elegiac poems written as letters, fused Ovid's interests in erotics and myth into a new and unique genre, in which experiments with epistolary form and the psychology of first-person narrative would go on to have a profound influence on European literature. This two-volume edition of 1898 remains an essential resource for the poems; but it has long been difficult to obtain. 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