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Divisadero (Vintage International)
Michael Ondaatje
Vintage
Vintage
From the celebrated author of The English Patient , comes another breathtaking, unforgettable story, this time about a family torn apart by an act of violence. Divisadero is a rich and rewarding read, one that Jhumpa Lahiri , in her guest review...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature,...
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Dante Alighieri
NAL Trade
NAL Trade
Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy , is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of...
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The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Homer
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility...
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Red Bird: Poems
Mary Oliver
Beacon Press
Beacon Press
"Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could." So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he...
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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
Homer
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
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...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)
Walt Whitman
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
"The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his...
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The Craftsman
Richard Sennett
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than “skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman’s work. Craftsmanship...
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Thirst: Poems
Mary Oliver
Beacon Press
Beacon Press
Now in paperback: the national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet "To read Thirst, Mary Oliver's most recent book of poems, is to feel gratitude for the simple fact of being alive." âAngela O'Donnell, America Magazine ...
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The Aeneid (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Virgil
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgils great epic With his translations of Homers classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and...
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