The Mythress catalogue

Books for the second reading.

Five distinct invitations into myth, longing, war, homecoming, and private catastrophe.

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The Iliad

Homer · Retold by Tay Sagon

Homer's war epic in direct, resonant prose. A book of wrath, honour, grief, and the terrible cost of glory.

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The Odyssey

Homer · Retold by Tay Sagon

A sea-borne epic of exile, cunning, endurance, and the difficult art of returning home.

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Layla and Majnun

Fuzuli · Rendered into English by Tay Sagon

An English verse rendering of a classic of love and spiritual longing, where desire becomes devotion and language becomes a form of survival.

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Shahmaran

A traditional Anatolian legend · Retold by Tay Sagon

The serpent queen's kingdom beneath the earth, and the human betrayal that carries its knowledge into the world above.

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A Forbidden Love

Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil · Rendered into English by Emma Celine Veyre

A psychological novel of marriage, desire, class, and reputation in late Ottoman Istanbul. The closer its characters come to what they want, the less room they have to survive it.

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