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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by N K Sandars  Publisher Comments The Epic of Gilgamesh, which dates from the third millenium BC, is one of the finest surviving epic poems in world literature. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character...
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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....
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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...
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The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki And Seidenstick Publisher Comments The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the world. Until...
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CA DAO Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poety
by John Balaban Publisher Comments During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war....
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The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction
by Lakhnavi And Bilgrami Publisher Comments In the tradition of such beloved classics as The Thousand and One Nights and the Persian Shahnameh, here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Dastan-e Amir Hamza)–a panoramic tale...
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Dream of the Red Chamber
by Hsueh Chin Tsao Publisher Comments For more than a century and a half, "Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is...
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Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life
by Burton Watson Publisher Comments The short works collected in "Four Huts" give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia--that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries and convey...
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book)
by Kenneth Rexroth 
Publisher Comments The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries--Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions....
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Pancatantra (06 Edition)
by Sarma Publisher Comments Ascribed by legend to the celebrated half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma, the fables of "The Pancatantra" were first recorded 1,500 years ago but date back to Indias robust oral tradition. Widely translated, they have influenced a vast number of works in...
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The Hitopadesa (Penguin Classics)
by Narayana Publisher Comments Widely read and beloved for more than a thousand years, the "Hitopadesa" (Book of Good Counsels) is an anthology of folk wisdom that offers humorous and profound reflections on human lives and loves, philosophies and follies. Drawing on traditional...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Edition)
by Benjamin R Foster Synopsis This edition of one of the world's greatest epic narratives is accompanied by interpretative headings and explanatory annotations. The book also includes critical essays and two groups of ancient poetry: a collection of older Sumerian poems; and Hittite...
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Abolqasem Ferdowsi and Dick Davis Publisher Comments The great national epic of Persia — the most complete English-language edition. Wherever Persian influence has spread, the stories of the Shahnameh become deeply embedded in the culture, as their appearance in such novels as The Kite Runner...
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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
by David Damrosch Publisher Comments Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this “useful, entertaining and informative” story of the first great epic (The Washington Post) Composed in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, The Epic of Gilgamesh...
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Beyond Spring: Tz'u Poems of the Sung Dynasty
by Julie Landau Publisher Comments The first anthology of Sung dynasty tz'u poems available in English, "Beyond Spring" provides a representative body of translations, 150 in all. Keeping true to the original music, Landau's faithful translations capture the phrasing and rhythms crucial...
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Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki: Tales of the Samurai
by James S. de Benneville
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Carrying Over: Poems from the Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Yiddish, and French African
by Carolyn Kizer
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Oral Epics of Central Asia
by Nara K Chadwick TOC Pt. 1. The epic poetry of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, by N.K. Chadwick.--pt. 2. Epic songs and singers in Central Asia, by V. Zhirmunsky....
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Dictionary of Oriental Literatures 3 Volumes
by Jaroslav Prusek TOC v. 1. East Asia.--v. 2. South and South-East Asia.--v. 3. West Asia and North Africa....
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Gilgamesh
by Herbert Mason
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