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Meditations (Modern Library Classics) by Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hays Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Homer And Squillace Publisher Comments The Odyssey, by Homer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Inferno by Dante And Ciardi Publisher Comments The immortal drama of a journey through Hell. Belonging in the immortal company of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides And Warner Publisher Comments Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rise of the Roman Empire (79 Edition) by Obye Polybius Synopsis In writing his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire, the Greek statesman Polybius set out to help his fellow-countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. This text presents a translation of his work.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gift by Hafiz 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus And Grant Synopsis "The Annals of Imperial Rome" recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. Michael Grant's introduction discusses the life and works of Tacitus and the historical context of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Story of the Stone Volume 1 Golden Days by Xueqin Cao Publisher Comments One of the greatest novels of Chinese literature.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus And Waterfield Publisher Comments "The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Compelled by his desire to "prevent the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Enchantment of the Middle Ages by Michael Zink Publisher Comments Deep forests, enchanted castles, monsters, maidens in distress, stout-hearted heroes, boundless love: The literature of the Middle Ages has the power to entrance the imaginations of children and adolescents. But can it do more? And in fact, does that... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.94 Used - Hardcover
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Bantam Classics) by Dante Alighieri 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... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Hell (The Inferno) 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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Publisher Comments Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo by J. R. R. Tolkien Publisher Comments Three epic poems from 14th century England speak of life during the age of chivalry. Translated from medieval English.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Publisher Comments One of the world's oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-century romance centers on the lives and loves of an emperor's son. It offers a vast tapestry of the intrigues and rivalries of court life, as well as an... (read more) List Price $3.00 Your price: $1.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Tale of Genji (01 Edition) by Murasaki Shikibu Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [1169]-1182).... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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