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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
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The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines—seven women and three men—escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole. At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting,... (read more)
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Cold Mountain Poems [With CD (Audio)]
by Han-shan
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In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of... (read more)
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The Metamorphoses
by Ovid
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Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s... (read more)
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Thomas Hardy: The Complete Novels in One Sitting
by Joelle Herr
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Thomas Hardy was one of the greatest Victorian novelists and twentieth-century poets, exploring themes of the human experience and challenging sexual and religious conventions in a way that few other books of his time did. Collected here in this mini... (read more)
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
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“This will be the Dante for the next generation” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—now available in paperback Stopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call our life, I looked up and saw no sky— Only a dense cage of... (read more)
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The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
by Homer
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andlt;B andgt;"Sing to me, Muse . . ."andlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;It has been said that a myth is a story about the way things never were but always are. Theandlt;I andgt; Odysseyandlt;/Iandgt; is the original hero's journey, an epic... (read more)
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