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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Classics $276.25 New Hardcover add to wish list Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax: With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic David Langslow $29.25 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Aeneid (Bristol Classical Paperbacks) R. D. Williams $29.25 New Hardcover add to wish list I Tatti Renaissance Library #38: Latin Poetry Jacopo Sannazaro $27.50 New Hardcover add to wish list Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou (Weatherhead Books on Asia) Anonymous $27.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories Robert B. (edt) Strassler $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Romance of the Rose (Oxford World's Classics) Guillaume De Lorris Browse more New Arrivals in Classics Medieval and Renaissance General Browse more titles in Classics-Medieval and Renaissance General Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments Finally available in paperback comes a brilliant new rendering of the oldest epic in the world by esteemed translator and bestselling author Mitchell.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Classics $8.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Gilgamesh: A New English Version Stephen Mitchell $5.95 Used Book Club Paperback add to wish list Aeneid Virgil $0.75 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Medea (Dover Thrift Editions) Euripides And Warner $2.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) Anonymous And Sanders $7.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Metamorphoses ((Rev)04 Edition) Ovid $2.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Beowulf and Other Old English Poems Constance R Hieatt Browse recently arrived used titles in Classics Spanish Medieval and Renaissance Browse more titles in Classics-Spanish Medieval and Renaissance Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Publisher Comments Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. Translated with Notes by John Rutherford... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Beowulf Browse more titles in Classics-Beowulf Beowulf (Signet Classics) by Anonymous And 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) List Price $4.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market add to wish list check for other copies British Medieval and Renaissance Browse more titles in Classics-British Medieval and Renaissance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics) by Burton Raffel Publisher Comments During a Christmas feast at Camelot, King Arthur and his knights are interrupted by a monstrous green-skinned knight who offers them a simple but deadly challenge. Sir Gawain accepts this challenge, which will force him to choose between his honor and... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Italian Medieval and Renaissance Browse more titles in Classics-Italian Medieval and Renaissance The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Machiavelli And Donno Publisher Comments Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.  Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. ... (read more) List Price $4.50 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market add to wish list check for other copies Greek Browse more titles in Classics-Greek Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sophocles And Young Publisher Comments Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. When Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, chooses to obey the law of the gods rather... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $0.45 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Chinese Browse more titles in Classics-Chinese Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth Synopsis Kenneth Rexroth was one of the pioneer American translators from the Chinese into English. From his bestselling books, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese, and Woman Poets of China, Eliot Weinberger (essayist... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Japanese Browse more titles in Classics-Japanese Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Katsu Kokichi Publisher Comments Katsu Kokichi was a low ranking samurai who lived during the last decades of the Tokugawa period of Japan. Upon his retirement he wrote an autobiography that offers modern readers a richly detailed account of daily life in Edo during the early nineteenth... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Sale Books Browse more titles in Classics-Sale Books X-Treme Latin: All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century by Henry Beard Publisher Comments In a book designed for "magnus" popularity, the master of American wit delivers a hilarious handbook of Latin phrases for saying what's really on one's mind, without any consequences.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Used Books Browse more titles in Classics-Used Books The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Bantam Classics) by Dante Alighieri 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) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market add to wish list check for other copies

Bestsellers Sunday, July 12, 2009 Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes The Iliad by Homer and Robert Fagles Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Sir Gawain & the Green Knight by Simon Armitage Author Events Classics Wednesday, July 29, 2009   Classics Book Group Review-a-Day | May 19, 2009 Violent Grace 1 comment By Review-a-Day An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne Carson Reviewed by Emily Wilson The Nation Aeschylus'... Continue » $20.00 Sale Hardcover add to wish list An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides Anne Carson Review-a-Day | May 16, 2009 Kenneth Rexroth's Translations 1 comment By Review-a-Day Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth (trn) Rexroth Reviewed by Chris Faatz Powells.com One of the great loves of my... Continue » $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese Kenneth Rexroth

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