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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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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Patience; And Pearl: Verse Translations by Marie Borroff Publisher Comments "These translations by Marie Borroff not only are one of the great achievements of the translator's craft but are works of art in their own right."--Lee Patterson, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies, Yale University.... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Purgatorio #2: The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatory by Dante About the Author Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Glyn Burgess Publisher Comments Based on the massacre in 778 of CharlemagneÆs rearguard at Roncesvalles in northern Spain, The Song of Roland transforms a legendary defeat into an epic clash between Christianity and paganism. At the heart of the poem is the account of the warrior... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg (edt) Delanty Publisher Comments Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets--including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others--"this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri and John Ciardi Publisher Comments Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane (int) Smiley Publisher Comments A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 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—... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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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Divine Comedy Inferno by Dante/musa Publisher Comments This vigorous translation of the poet's journey through the circles of hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - 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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Histories of Gargantua & Pantagruel 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Decameron: A New Translation: 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Boccaccio Publisher Comments The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the author's themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture... (read more) List Price $20.60 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inferno of Dante Bilingual Edition by Dante/pinsky 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 $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poetry of Petrarch by Petrarch Publisher Comments “David Youngs version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the Wests crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.” --Harold Bloom Ineffable sweetness, bold... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dante's Divine Comedy #2: Purgatory by Dante Publisher Comments This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Inferno of Dante by Dante 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 $40.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dante's Paradiso by Dante Publisher Comments With the publication of Dante's Paradiso, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders complete their literary and artistic achievement?the retelling of The Divine Comedy in contemporary words and images. Hailed as "inspired" by the The London Review of Books, Birk... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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