Jeanne Steig
Jeanne Steig is the author of several books of light verse and prose, including Alpha Beta Chowder; A Handful of Beans, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; and A Gift from Zeus: Sixteen Favorite Myths, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the ... [... more]
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The Gnostic Bible
 Ancient Hidden Texts Come Into Contemporary Light: This is a fascinating volume. I have heard of the gnostic teachings over the years, but never realized that they were so widespread nor so diverse. These teachings extended in space from western China [... more]
CDN$34.95
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The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from ...
Ancient Hidden Texts Come Into Contemporary Light: This is a fascinating volume. I have heard of the gnostic teachings over the years, but never realized that they were so widespread nor so diverse. These teachings extended in space from western China [... more]
CDN$60.14
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary
a good book: i like this book. it helps a lot. and looks good on the shelf to boot. Serendipity: You will find here an ingenous legacy...I mean the translation as a gift, and a bridge, a well done bridge between old Russia and America. Nabokov's [... more]
CDN$46.88
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La Vita Nuova
What has never been written of any other woman: Genuine romance and passion is missing from most books, either fiction or nonfiction, and I don't think I've ever come across both in such quantity as there is in "La Vita Nuova" ("The New [... more]
CDN$1.75
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The Homeric Hymns
Ian Myles Slater on: An Established Favorite: The Athanassakis translation of the "Homeric Hymns" - a somewhat disparate collection of narratives, possible opening invocations for performances of longer poems, and a mix of what seem to be [... more]
CDN$22.50
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text
Pushkin by way of Nabokov: At the close of his writing career Vladimir Nabokov predicted that he would be remembered only for two things: Lolita and his translation of the Russian classic Eugene Onegin. He was half right. Lolita is now firmly apart of [... more]
CDN$23.91
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The Lion & the Throne: Stories from the Shahnameh of ...
in fairness to the publisher: I recently saw this book as well as the second volume in the planned three-volume set in the gift shop at the Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., in connection with an exhibit of art work from various Shahnameh manuscripts [... more]
CDN$112.50
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Mystical Verse and Prose/Poesias y prosas misticas: A ...
Author: St. John of the Cross Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 861.3 EAN: 9780486451237 Edition: Bilingual ISBN: 0486451232 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2006-12-27 [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Poems for Patriarchs: The Verse and Prose of Christian ...
Author: Douglas W. Phillips Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9781929241453 ISBN: 1929241453 Number Of Pages: 150 Publication Date: 2003-10 [... more]
CDN$20.84
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The Fairy Tales in Verse and Prose/Les contes en vers et ...
Author: Charles Perrault Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 440 EAN: 9780486424767 Edition: Bilingual ISBN: 0486424766 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2003-01-16 [... more]
CDN$13.95
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Penguin Classics Vita Nuova
What has never been written of any other woman: Genuine romance and passion is missing from most books, either fiction or nonfiction, and I don't think I've ever come across both in such quantity as there is in "La Vita Nuova" ("The New [... more]
CDN$15.00
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