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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...
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The Divine Comedy of Inferno (Bantam Classics)
by Dante And Mandelbaum 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...
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Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Beowulf And Gordon Publisher Comments Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies....
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The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer And Coghill 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-from...
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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...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
by Simon Armitage Publisher Comments A spellbinding poetic translation of this six hundred year-old Arthurian story of beheading, romance, and the supernatural. Composed in the late fourteenth century by an anonymous author in the English provinces, this remarkable epic has enchanted...
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A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
by John Burrow Publisher Comments This unprecedented book by one of Britain’s most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has had in the Western world over the past 2,500 years. Treating the practice of history not as an...
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The Decameron
by Boccaccio And Musa Publisher Comments Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Boccaccio's masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, nuns, doctors, lawyers, students, artists, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves, gamblers, police...
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Gilgamesh
by John Gardner 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...
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Letters of Abelard & Heloise
by Abelard And Radice Publisher Comments The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story...
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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 crew of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life--from...
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Egil's Saga
by Sturluson And Palsson Publisher Comments Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a psychologically ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry and a physical grotesque capable of...
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Divine Comedy Inferno
by Dante And 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...
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The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)
by 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....
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition
by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments More than one hundred glorious images, many of objects dating from the time of the story, enhance Seamus Heaney's masterful best-selling translation. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the...
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Parzival and Titurel (Oxford World's Classics)
by Von Eschenbach And Edwar Publisher Comments Written in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival's growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Arthur, and of his quest for the Holy Grail. Exuberant...
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The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
by Anon And 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...
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Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Volume 2
by Dante And Durling Publisher Comments The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet...
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante And Carlyle Publisher Comments The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes....
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Paradiso
by Dante and Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander Publisher Comments Robert and Jean Hollander's verse translation with facing-page Italian offers the dual virtues of maximum fidelity to Dante's text with the feeling necessary to give the English reader a sense of the work's poetic greatness in Italian. And since Robert...
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