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The Odyssey
By Homer , Robert Fitzgerald , Seamus Heaney [Paperback 1999]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days This is the companion to the epic poem 'The Iliad'. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a vi Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E., Homers story... more
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
By Herbert Mason [Paperback 2003]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 7-12 days Mason's translation is the most widely read of this classic tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and mos... more
Love Visions
By Geoffrey Chaucer , Brian Stone [Paperback 1983]
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The Orlando Furioso (1831)
By Lodovico Ariosto [Paperback 2009]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: xc. Nay; when he hears it is Mount Alban's knight By whom assailed the p Purchase of this book... more
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The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems
By Henry Adams Bellows [Paperback 2007]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 7-12 days The vibrant Old Norse poems in this 13th-century collection recapture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. These mythological poems include the "Voluspo," one of the broadest literary conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction; t The companion volume to Dover's "The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems," this vibrant... more
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The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos (Dodo Press)
By Horace , George Colman [Paperback 2008]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 3-4-WEEKS Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (65 BC-8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. He was the son of a freedman, but he himself was born free. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Quintus Horatius Flaccus was a major Roman... more
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La Odisea
By Homero , Cecilia Iwashita , Beatriz Mira Andreu [Paperback 2004]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days The familiar characters and stories of Homer's epic are vividly brought to life in this illustrated prose version for children. Written in simple language that is accessible to young readers, these illustrated classics allow them to become acquainted The familiar characters and stories of Homer"s epic are vividly brought to... more
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Of the Nature of Things
By Frank O Copley , Titus Lucretius Carus [Paperback 2009]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days Based on the tenets of Epicurean philosophy, The Nature of Things sets forth a world view anticipating our own. All that exists is composed of atoms that united to form matter and dissipate with time. Even the soul is made up of atoms; however, there is n Titus Lucretius Carus... more
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Ramayana
By Valmiki , Valmiki Goldman , Amartya Sen [Paperback 2003]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days And my evil fates are vanquished and my race is sanctified, With the warlike race of Raghu thus in loving bonds allied, Sacrifice and rites auspicious we ordain with rising sun, Ere the evening's darkness closes, happy nuptials shall be done!"... more
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Troilus and Cressida
By Geoffrey Chaucer , George Philip Krapp [Paperback 2006]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days Remarkable for his beauty and bravery, the warrior Troilus is an engaging youth who lives, and eventually dies, for Cressida, a virtuous, tender-hearted woman driven to infidelity by circumstance. Regarded by many as Chaucer's most noble work of art, "Tro Often called the first great English novel, "Troilus and Cressida,... more
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Edda Edda
By Snorri Sturluson , Anthony Faulkes [Paperback 1995]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 7-12 days The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text summ... more
The Liberation of Jerusalem
By Torquato Tasso , Max Wickert , Mark Davie [Paperback 2009]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 7-12 days In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The... more
Of the Nature of Things
By Lucretius [Paperback 2008]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 3-4-WEEKS On the Nature of Things (Latin: De rerum natura) is a first century BC epic poem by Lucretius that grandly proclaims the reality of man's role in a universe without a god to help him along. It is a statement of personal responsibility in a world in which Titus Lucretius... more
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
By N K Sandars [Paperback 1960]
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The Paradiso
By Dante Alighieri , Gustave Dore , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Paperback 2006]
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Out Of Stock "The Paradiso," by Dante Alighieri, 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 e... more
Peace
By Aristophanes , M Platnauer [Paperback 2006]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days The second in a series of three comedies, 'Peace', along with 'The Acharnians' and 'Lysistrata', called for an end to the Peloponnesian war. The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the war had already lasted ten year As for me, I will explain the... more
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Beowulf: A Prose Translation: Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
By Nicholas Howe , E Talbot Donaldson [Paperback 2001, 2nd Edition]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original. "Backgrounds and... more
The Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer , Frank Grady [Paperback 1997]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 7-12 days The father of English literature shines in this authoritative selection from the greatest collection of narrative poems in the English language. Includes footnotes, normalized spelling, and a glossary of Middle English. Reissue. Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? "No Fear: The Canterbury Tales" makes... more
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Purgatorio
By Dante Alighieri , Kathryn Ann Lindskoog [Mass market paperbound 1983]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days A brilliant new translation of the centerpiece of "The Divine Comedy Purgatory, the mountain that straightens souls made crooked by the world, is Dante's single most conceptually brilliant creation. Anthony Esolen's vivid and innovative new rendering This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of... more
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The Homeric Hymns
By Jules Cashford , Nicholas Richardson [Paperback 2003]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days From the abduction of Persephone by Hades to Hermes' theft of Apollo's cattle, the Homeric Hymns recount some of the most compelling and significant episodes in Greek mythology. They were recited at festivals to honor the Olympian gods and goddesses, to p... more