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Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2 by Kuan Chung Lo Publisher Comments The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.95 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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Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases (98 Edition) by James Morwood Publisher Comments This authoritative and highly browsable guide provides an enlightening account of the meaning and history of Latin words and phrases that have entered the English language. Readers will find over 1000 phrases, sayings, mottoes, and proverbs, translated... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tale of Genji by M Shikibu Publisher Comments In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Iliad 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 his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world's greatest war... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Publisher Comments An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin for Even More Occasions by Henry Beard Publisher Comments Oh, darn, there I go again! You know, I just can't help speaking Latin. Ecce, denuo ago, sicut soleo! Non enim possum facere quin Latine loquar. It's so second nature to me, sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it! Adeo huius mihi rei natura facta est... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lingua Latina Extrema/X-Treme Latin: Unleash Your Inner Gladiator! by Henry Beard Publisher Comments The master of American witwhose books have sold more than four million copies combineddelivers a hilarious handbook of Latin phrases for saying whats really on your mind, without any consequences. In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments Robert Fagless stunning modern-verse translationavailable at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Loeb Classical Library #308: Minor Attic Orators: Volume I. Antiphon and Andocides by Antiphon Publisher Comments This is the first in a two-volume edition of Greek orators. Antiphon of Athens, born in 480 BCE, spent his prime in the great period of Athens but, disliking democracy, was himself an ardent oligarch who with others set up a violent short-lived... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #295: History of Rome: Volume IX. Books 31-34 by Livy Publisher Comments Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Two Lives of Charlemagne (09 Edition) by Einhard Publisher Comments Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage ?known as the father of Europe?was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Late Medieval England by Nancy M Bradbury Publisher Comments Between high culture and low culture, between oral traditions and written storytelling, between performance and manuscript, there lies not a clean boundary but a dynamic, productive region of mutual influence.<P>Focusing on works composed at the... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Publisher Comments One of the world's great history books and the first true historical narrative of Western literature, Thucydides' chronicle of the disastrous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta resonates with tales of heroism and villainy, deeds of courage and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Euripides: Ten Plays by Euripides Publisher Comments A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov Publisher Comments A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Mary Henders Beard Publisher Comments Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Selections from the Canzoniere & Other Works by Francesco Petrarca Publisher Comments This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters From a Stoic (69 Edition) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca About the Author Lucius Annaeus Seneca, statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of letters, was born at Cordoba in Spain around 4 BC. He rose to prominence in Rome, pursuing a career in the courts and political life, for which he had been trained, while also acquiring... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On Government (93 Edition) by Marcus Tullius Cicero Publisher Comments Cicero, writes Michael Grant in his Introduction to this superb selection, is 'by far Rome's most enlightening polictical thinker, and perhaps its greatest.' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) was a key figure in the turbulent closing years of the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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