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Odyssey by Homer Publisher Comments Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love by Giovanni Boccaccio Publisher Comments Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great... (read more) Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Dream of the Red Chamber (Tuttle Classics) by Xueqin Cao Publisher Comments The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the "Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature." It is renowned for its huge scope, large cast of characters and telling observations on the life and social structures of 18th century China and is considered... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2 by Kuan Chung Lo Publisher Comments The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Inferno of Dante by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Martial's Epigrams: A Selection by Martial Publisher Comments Bawdy and biting epigrams, freshly translated, ready for enjoyment. One of literatures greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance by Deborah Parker Publisher Comments Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $6.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments "Spectacular and constantly surprising." -Ken Burns Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the timeless stories of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Phoenician Women by Euripides Publisher Comments Peter Burian and Brian Swann recreate Euripides' The Phoenician Women which explores, with all its deeply disturbing ironies, the fateful history of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus, King of Thebes. Their lively translation of this... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $2.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literatures most enduring (and endearing)... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Mass Market
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The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Heifetz Hart Publisher Comments Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the "Purananuru," This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Oxford Readings in Aeschylus by Michael Lloyd Publisher Comments This book is an anthology of thirteen of the most important articles published on Aeschylus in the last fifty years. It gives roughly equal coverage to the seven surviving plays, and there is also a chapter which places them in the context of Aeschylus... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $12.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Poems of Callimachus by Callimachus Publisher Comments This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life and times, the range of his achievements, and the difficulties in the way of appreciation. It does not... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy Publisher Comments This work is based on Muhsin Mahdi's reconstruction of the original Nights. The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman Paperback Classics) by A C Cawley Publisher Comments The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage Publisher Comments "Promises to drive the green force of the old poem through the Armitage fuse and set it a-buddin' and a-bloomin' for the new millennium."'"Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate, best-selling translator of BeowulfCom posed in the late fourteenth century by an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B Strassler Publisher Comments From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Staff Pick Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote has quickly become a favorite, lauded by academics and common readers alike. Don't fail to check this out, the world's first modern novel.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccios Decameron and the other in works ranging from John... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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