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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
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"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)
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Don Quixote
by Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. Translated with Notes by John Rutherford... ( read more)
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The Prince (Bantam Classics)
by Machiavelli And Donno
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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. ... ( read more)
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Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese
by Kenneth Rexroth
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Kenneth Rexroth was one of the pioneer American translators from the Chinese into English. From his bestselling books, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese, and Woman Poets of China, Eliot Weinberger (essayist... ( read more)
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Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sophocles And Young
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Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. When Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, chooses to obey the law of the gods rather... ( read more)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics)
by Burton Raffel
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During a Christmas feast at Camelot, King Arthur and his knights are interrupted by a monstrous green-skinned knight who offers them a simple but deadly challenge. Sir Gawain accepts this challenge, which will force him to choose between his honor and... ( read more)
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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... ( read more)
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Beowulf (Signet Classics)
by Anonymous And Raffel
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The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, "Beowulf" is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood, victory, and death. This repackaged Signet classic Includes a Glossary of terms.... ( read more)
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Thucydides And Warner
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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)
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Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
by Katsu Kokichi
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Katsu Kokichi was a low ranking samurai who lived during the last decades of the Tokugawa period of Japan. Upon his retirement he wrote an autobiography that offers modern readers a richly detailed account of daily life in Edo during the early nineteenth... ( read more)
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Oedipus Rex Dover Thrift Edition
by Sophocles/appelbaum
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One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly use of dramatic irony greatly... ( read more)
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Plutarch on Sparta
by Plutarch And Talbert
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Two more of Plutarch's "lives", covering the careers of the Spartan kings, Agis and Cleomenes.... ( read more)
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The Odyssey
by Homer and Robert Fagles
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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... ( read more)
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Tain
by Thomas Kinsella
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The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's nearest approach to a great epic. It tells the story of a giant cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of... ( read more)
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous And Sanders
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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... ( read more)
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Socrates and Aristophanes
by Leo Strauss
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In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry... ( read more)
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Greek Lyric an Anthology in Translation
by Andrew W Miller
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To understand Serbian nationalism requires profound attention to
history and careful analysis. Cohen accomplishes both through years
of studying primary sources never before translated, focusing on
World War II and uncovering the foundations of ethnic... ( read more)
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Inferno of Dante Bilingual Edition
by Dante/pinsky
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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... ( read more)
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
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A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from... ( read more)
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The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
by Herodotus And Waterfield
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"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)
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