The Odes (Penguin Classics L209)
 Ian Myles Slater on: Bowra's Pindar, Not Lattimore's: I am here reviewing C. M. Bowra's translation of "The Odes of Pindar" for the Penguin Classics, not Richmond Lattimore's version from the University of Chicago Press, my review of which has [... more]
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A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine Comedy
Arguably the finest intro to Dante in English: For the reader tackling Dante for the very first time, this might be the best book currently available. Though targeted at first time readers, this can also be helpful for those who need to review all the [... more]
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The Inferno
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Avodah: An Anthology of Ancient Poetry for Yom Kippur ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 296.452 EAN: 9780271023571 ISBN: 0271023570 Number Of Pages: 390 Publication Date: 2005-06-05 [... more]
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A Hacker Manifesto
amazing!: Warks book is one of the most refreshing books I have read from this year. His argument about the change in capitalism and the role of intellectual "property" will become increasingly important. His use of Debord, Marx and Deleuze to [... more]
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Vergil: Aeneid, The (2nd Edition)
Author: Vergil Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 873.01 EAN: 9780023253409 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0023253401 Number Of Pages: 322 Publication Date: 1965 [... more]
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The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
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Essential Rumi
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The Illustrated Rumi: A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet ...
Amazon.com Review: The 13th century Sufi mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi was a storyteller who spoke like a songwriter--in metered prose and rhyming verse. Whatever the translation (and there have been many), his words always seem to fall like lilting petals, [... more]
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The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
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Essential Rumi
Amazon.com Review: No translator could do greater justice to the gorgeous simplicity of Rumi's poetry than Coleman Barks has done here. These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the " [... more]
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Medieval Romances
Broad Sampling of Western European Romances: Loomis and Loomis present translations of the following tales: _Perceval, or the Story of the Grail_ by Chretien de Troyes, _Tristan and Isolt_ by Gottfried von Strassburg, _The Youth of Alexander the Great_, [... more]
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