by Robert B Strassler  Publisher Comments This revised edition of Richard Crawley's classic 1874 translation is enhanced with more than 100 maps, extensive annotations, brief biographies of important figures, and invaluable historical, political, and cultural background.... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies 
Medieval and Renaissance General by Hafiz And Ladinsky 
Publisher Comments More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Frederic M Wheelock Publisher Comments When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; at least on reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Sam Hamill Publisher Comments Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the one hundred and fifty poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan's poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your Price $4.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry Publisher Comments In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers... (read more) Your Price $11.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Wu Ch'Eng-En Publisher Comments Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far east, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish monkey and his encounters with major and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
Italian Medieval and Renaissance by Dante And Mandelbaum Publisher Comments In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own... (read more) Your Price $1.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Richard F. Burton and A. S. Byatt Publisher Comments This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multi-volume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes.... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (New - Mass Market) check for used and sale copies
by Burton Raffel Publisher Comments The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, "Beowulf" is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood, victory, and death. This repackaged Signet classic Includes a Glossary of terms.... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Chaucer And Coghill Publisher Comments With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from... (read more) Your Price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Livy And De Selincourt Publisher Comments With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal struggles,... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
Spanish Medieval and Renaissance by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Publisher Comments Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and... (read more) Your Price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Hsueh Chin Tsao Publisher Comments For more than a century and a half, "Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
French Medieval and Renaissance by Rabelais/cohen Publisher Comments A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by M C Howatson Publisher Comments From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, the first updating since Sir Paul Harvey's original... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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