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Chronicles by Froissart And Brereton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Enriched Classics #5: The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer And Lumiansky Publisher Comments The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Edition) by Anonymous And Foster Synopsis This edition of one of the world's greatest epic narratives is accompanied by interpretative headings and explanatory annotations. The book also includes critical essays and two groups of ancient poetry: a collection of older Sumerian poems; and Hittite... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Greek Sophists (Penguin Classics) by John M Dillon Publisher Comments The Sophists, who rose to prominence in democratic Athens during the mid-fifth century b.c., understood the art of rhetoric and the importance of being able to transform effective reasoning into persuasive public speaking. Their inquiries-into the gods... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline by Sallust And Handford Publisher Comments These are the only surviving works by a man who held various public offices in Rome and was a friend of Caesar's and an opponent of Cicero's.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil And Mandelbaum Publisher Comments Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well.  Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i> is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Paradiso by Dante And Mandelbaum Publisher Comments The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Po and Tu Fu Synopsis Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally regarded by the Chinese as their two greatest poets. Together their poetry encompasses all of human nature. Escapist but earthy, spiritual but realistic, romantic but precise, these two are often appropriately referred... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Decameron by Boccaccio And Musa Publisher Comments Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Boccaccio's masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, nuns, doctors, lawyers, students, artists, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves, gamblers, police... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece: Nondramatic Poetry in Its Setting by Eva Stehle Publisher Comments "Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter," writes Eva Stehle, "but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party." Describing how men and women, young and adult, sang or recited in public settings, Stehle treats poetry... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Classics on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Inferno by Dante And Ciardi Publisher Comments The immortal drama of a journey through Hell. Belonging in the immortal company of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment... (read more) Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Prince and the Discourses (Modern Library College Editions) by Machiavelli And Ricci Publisher Comments Translated by Luigi Ricci, Revised by E.R.P. Vincent, Introduction by Max Lerner... (read more) List Price $9.75 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oedipus Rex Dover Thrift Edition by Sophocles/appelbaum Publisher Comments Landmark of Western drama concerns the catastrophe that ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly construction, dramatic irony. Explanatory footnotes.... (read more) Your price $0.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer And Coghill Publisher Comments 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 crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Inferno of Dante by Dante And Pinsky 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 $40.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Iliad by Homer And Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men-carrion for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Five Women Who Loved Love by Saikaku And De Bary Publisher Comments Translation of an erotic novel first published in 1686 -- describes the floating world of old Japan.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Purgatorio (Bantam Classic) by Dante And Mandelbaum Publisher Comments This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The War with Hannibal: Books XXI-XXX of the History of Rome from Its Foundation by Livy And De Selincourt Synopsis Hannibal, one of the most compelling personalities of the ancient world, inflicted a tremendous defeat on the Romans at Cannae in 216 BC. This text looks at the figure... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Prince by Machiavelli And Mansfiel Publisher Comments The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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