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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Homer and Robert Fagles
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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)

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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
by Stephen Mitchell
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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)

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Euripides #1: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I
Euripides #1: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I
by Euripides
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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)

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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Homer and Robert Fitzgerald
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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)

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The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics)
The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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)

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)
by Brian Stone
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‘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)

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Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng En
Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng En
by Wu Ch'Eng-En
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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)

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Aeneid of Virgil (81 Edition)
Aeneid of Virgil (81 Edition)
by Virgil
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"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)

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Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata (Penguin Classics)
Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata (Penguin Classics)
by Aristophanes
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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)

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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by N K Sandars
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‘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)

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Sophocles I: Three Tragedies
Sophocles I: Three Tragedies
by Sophocles
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"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)

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Bantam Classics)
The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Bantam Classics)
by Dante Alighieri
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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)

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The Aeneid (Barnes & Noble Classics)
The Aeneid (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Vergil
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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)

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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library)
The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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)

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38 Latin Stories Wheelock
38 Latin Stories Wheelock
by Anne H Groton
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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)

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The Prince (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Prince (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Niccolo Machiavelli
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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)

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Laxdaela Saga (69 Edition)
Laxdaela Saga (69 Edition)
by Magnus (translator) Magnusson
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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)

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Five Women Who Loved Love
Five Women Who Loved Love
by Saikaku
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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)

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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics)
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics)
by Livy
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"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)

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