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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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper 
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation by Andrew George Publisher Comments Translated with an Introduction by Andrew George.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - 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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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 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu: A Reader's Guide by William J Puette Publisher Comments Included in the guide are full explanations of each Genji chapter, maps, sketches, a biography of the Genji's author, and a description of court life in Kyoto.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Peter Avery Synopsis Presents the eleventh-century Persian poet's quatrains that express his philosophy of love and life.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy Publisher Comments Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nightsis based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan by Ivan Morris Synopsis A Lady-in-waiting at a Heian court in medieval Japan records her personal feelings and reactions to social standards. Its shy and vulnerable author found happiness neither in her work at court nor with her family, and projected into her writing veiled... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by Anonymous Publisher Comments A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Modern Library Classics) by Ghalib Lakhnavi Publisher Comments Here is a special abridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic: a panoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero’s odyssey that has captivated much of the world. It is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, the adventurer who in... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Gilgamesh by Anonymous Publisher Comments The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oriental Love Poems by Michelle Lovric Publisher Comments "Then let us pledge a friendshipwithout human tiesAnd meet again at thefar end of the Milky Way." "Li Po, translated by Joseph LeeThe ancient poets of the Far East have such a way with words and mental images. And so it is with the art from that region... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Three Kingdoms Abridged Edition by Luo Guanzhong Publisher Comments Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Epic of Gilgamesh by Maureen Gall Kovacs Publisher Comments Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Romance of Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 by Luo Guanzhong Synopsis Containing the first 60 chapters of this epic Chinese work, ably translated by Brewitt-Taylor. Romance of Three Kingdoms, dating to the 14th Century, is the legendary epic of the fall of Han and the founding of Jin. Dealing with plots, complex men, wars,... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Anonymous Publisher Comments Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Arabian Nights, Volume 2 (10 Edition) by Lyons Publisher Comments Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy Publisher Comments Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own Sindbad, a collection of four later stories associated... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mountian Poems of Meng Hao-jan (04 Edition) by Hao-jan Meng Publisher Comments The First Full Flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T'ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 CE), esteemed elder to a long line of China's greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch'an (Zen... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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