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The Essential Rumi
by Rumi  
From Powells.com "I don't mean to claim a special relationship with Rumi...but a poet of such astonishing range and depth needs many translators and interpreters. Mystical poetry tries to reveal the apple orchard within the mist of language (Rumi's image). I hope these...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
Powells.com 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...
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The Craftsman
by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than "skilled manual labor," Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman's work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse...
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The Odyssey
by Homer and Robert Fagles
Publisher Comments Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of The Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New...
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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 Prince (Bantam Classics)
by Machiavelli And Donno Publisher Comments Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. ...
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The Gift
by Hafiz And Ladinsky
Publisher Comments More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest...
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The Iliad
by Homer and Robert Fagles
Publisher Comments This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of...
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Homeric Moments : Clues To Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad (02 Edition)
by Eva Brann Publisher Comments Fifty years of reading Homer -- both alone and with students -- prepared Eva Brann to bring the Odyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. In Homeric Moments, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the...
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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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The Odyssey
by Homer and Robert Fitzgerald Publisher Comments The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two...
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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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Inferno #1: The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Hell
by Dante And Sayers Publisher Comments This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought...
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The Aeneid (Vintage Classics)
by Virgil And Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald....
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The Iliad of Homer
by Homer Publisher Comments "The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."—William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."—Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer...
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Metamorphoses (World's Classics)
by Ovid And Melville Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxix]) and index....
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The Iliad
by Homer Publisher Comments In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's...
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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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The Portable Machiavelli
by Niccolo Machiavelli Synopsis This volume of Machiavelli's writings includes seven private letters, "The Prince", "Belfagor", "The Mandrake Root" and "Castruccio Castracani", as well as "The Discourses" (abridged) and substantial parts of "The Art of War" and "The History of Florence"...
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The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics)
by Farid Ud Din Attar Synopsis "Mantiq al-tayr" (the conference of the birds) is an elaborate allegory with many digressions. It describes how all the birds (human souls) set out in search of the Simurgh (the godhead). All but 30 die and the survivors realize that they themselves are...
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