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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 $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 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 $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Euripides #1: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I by Euripides Publisher Comments In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literatures most enduring (and endearing)... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Brian Stone Publisher Comments ‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King Arthur’s court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng En by Wu Ch'Eng-En Publisher Comments Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far east, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish monkey and his encounters with major and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aeneid of Virgil (81 Edition) by Virgil Review "Allen Mandelbaum has produced a living Aeneid, a version that is unmistakably poetry." -- Erich Segal, The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant translation; the only one since Dryden which reads like English verse and conveys some of... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes Publisher Comments Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments ‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophocles I: Three Tragedies by Sophocles Publisher Comments "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Aeneid (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Vergil Publisher Comments The Aeneid, by Vergil, 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 $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccios Decameron and the other in works ranging from John... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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38 Latin Stories Wheelock by Anne H Groton Synopsis Originally designed as a supplement to the Latin course by F. M. Wheelock, this book is well suited for use in any introductory course.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prince (Dover Thrift Editions) by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments Classic guide to acquiring and maintaining political power is refreshing in its directness, yet often disturbing in its cold practicality. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals of the 20th century, this calculating prescription for power remains... (read more) List Price $3.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Laxdaela Saga (69 Edition) by Magnus (translator) Magnusson Publisher Comments The Penguin Classics list of medieval sagas grows ever more impressive with these two thrilling Norse sagas One of the best -loved works of Icelandic literature, this stirring tale of war and romance follows three generations of strong women, wise... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Women Who Loved Love by Saikaku Publisher Comments First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics) by Livy Publisher Comments "The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods" Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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