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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty Publisher Comments Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul—the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Iliad by Homer and Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments Tolstoy called The Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homers story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Inferno of Dante by Dante Alighieri 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.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gift by Hafiz Publisher Comments More than any other Persian poet--even Rumi--Hafiz expanded the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Invisible Tongue." Indeed... (read more) Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics) by Jeffrey 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.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman Paperback Classics) by A C Cawley Publisher Comments The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tain by Thomas Kinsella Publisher Comments The T�in B� 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... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus Publisher Comments Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five plays: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus), and Pseudolus.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume I (96 Edition) by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments This new translation presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 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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Le Morte Darthur, Or, the Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table: Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Critic (Norton Critical Edition) by Thomas Malory Publisher Comments No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses'"Caxton"s 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Publisher Comments Mr. Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy should prove to be an invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who would read this great medieval classic with understanding. The original Italian text and the Sinclair... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives by Plutarch Publisher Comments Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Le Morte Darthur Volume 1 by Thomas Malory Publisher Comments An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Bedier Publisher Comments The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly laws has inspired artists through the centuries. But nowhere has it been retold with greater... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Staff Pick Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote has quickly become a favorite, lauded by academics and common readers alike. Don't fail to check this out, the world's first modern novel.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Plays and Fragments by Menander Publisher Comments The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. Until the twentieth century he was... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Early History of Rome by Livy Publisher Comments With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal struggles,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tale of Heike Publisher Comments The Tale of the Heike is one of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tale of Genji in quality and prestige. Familiar in Japan for generations, first through oral narration and later through the printed page, this fourteenth-century... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Dorothy L Sayers Publisher Comments The poem's vivid set pieces--the treason of Ganelon, the last stand of Roland at Roncesvals, Charlemagne's campaign of vengeance, and the final act of retribution--are justly famous.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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