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The Odyssey
by Homer and Robert Fagles
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Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man
of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once
he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of The Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New... ( read more)
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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... ( read more)
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Thucydides And Warner
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Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The... ( read more)
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The Iliad
by Homer and Robert Fagles
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This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of... ( read more)
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Song of Roland (90 Edition)
by Glyn S. (translator) Burgess
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Based on the massacre in 778 of CharlemagneÆs rearguard at Roncesvalles in northern Spain, The Song of Roland transforms a legendary defeat into an epic clash between Christianity and paganism. At the heart of the poem is the account of the warrior... ( read more)
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The Divine Comedy of Inferno (Bantam Classics)
by Dante And Mandelbaum
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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 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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The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)
by Virgil And Mandelbaum
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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 Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a... ( read more)
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The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics)
by Chaucer And Hieatt
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Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s 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 literature’s most enduring (... ( read more)
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The Book of the Courtier
by Castiglione And Bull
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The Italian Renaissance man's handbook, defining the essential virtues of a man of the Court.... ( read more)
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Sappho a New Translation
by Sappho/barnard
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These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever... ( read more)
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The Oresteia (Penguin Classics)
by Aeschylus And Fagles
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This book is a play that has been translated into English. 'The Oresteia'... ( read more)
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Purgatorio (Bantam Classic)
by Dante And Mandelbaum
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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)
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous And Sanders
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, which dates from the third millenium BC, is one of the finest surviving epic poems in world literature. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character... ( read more)
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante And Sinclair
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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)
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On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics)
by Lucretius
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This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader.... ( read more)
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Divine Comedy Inferno
by Dante/musa
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This vigorous translation of the poet's journey through the circles of hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate... ( read more)
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The Iliad
by Homer
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In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's... ( read more)
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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
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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 crew of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life--from... ( read more)
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