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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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics) by Jeffrey Gantz Synopsis Eleven stories of ancient Welsh origin combine myth, history, and folk legend in their accounts of heroes, quests, battles, and the triumphs of Arthur's knights.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fitzgerald Publisher Comments The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Medea (Plays for Performance) by Euripides Publisher Comments Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children. Plays for Performance Series.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Selected Poems of Rumi (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jalalu'l-din Rumi Publisher Comments More than 100 stirring, unforgettable lyrics by the great 13th century Sufi teacher and mystical poet include "The Marriage of True Minds," "The Children of Light," "The Man Who Looked Back on His Way to Hell," "The Ascending Soul," "The Pear-Tree... (read more) Your price: $3.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments ‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Le Morte Darthur Volume 1 by Thomas Malory Publisher Comments An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Bedier Publisher Comments The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly laws has inspired artists through the centuries. But nowhere has it been retold with greater... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aurelius Marcus Publisher Comments Stirring reflections on the human condition from a warrior and emperor provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman of the 2nd century. Recognizing that suffering is at the core of life, he counsels stoic... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - Trade Paper
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Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius Staff Pick Consigned to notebooks by one of Rome's last great emperors, Meditations contains the blood and fire of Stoic philosophy. It has been a favorite for many ages and graced the bedside of kings and laity alike.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradiso by Dante Publisher Comments The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach." The Divine Comedy stands as one of... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Iliad by Homer Publisher Comments One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments A classic treatise on practical leadership and power politics.... (read more) List Price $4.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Women Poets of Japan by Kenneth Rexroth Publisher Comments In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, Thepersian (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments ‘Your kindness to the human race has earned you this. A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger – you Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men’ Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) by Virgil Publisher Comments Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Exemplary Stories (Penguin Classics) by Cervantes About the Author Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra was born in Spain in 1547 to a family once proud and influential but now fallen on hard times. His father, a poor barber-surgeon, wandered up and down Spain in search of work. Educated as a child by the Jesuits in Seville... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Purgatorio (Bantam Classic) by Dante Publisher Comments This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide... (read more) List Price $13.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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