Category - Literary Criticism
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Gilgamesh (A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary te...
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A new and substantially expanded version of Hinton’s landmark translation of Tu Fu, published on the thirtieth anniversary of that original editi...
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Bathhouse and Other Tanka
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilaratin...
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Aeneid
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil (70 BC-19 BC) is a classic epic tale of Aeneas, a Trojan prince, about his adventurous journey and struggle to ...
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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride ...
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheu...
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The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian ficti...
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Kahlil Gibran Classics Collection: The Prophet, The Madman, Sand and Foam, The Broken Wings, A Tear and a Smile, Twenty Drawings, The Forerunner & Spi
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A priceless collection of Kahlil Gibran most notable works including 37 original illustrations. Books included in this collection: The Prophet The...
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Kahlil Gibran Classics Collection: The Prophet, The Madman, Sand and Foam, The Broken Wings, A Tear and a Smile, Twenty Drawings, The Forerunner & Spi
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A priceless collection of Kahlil Gibran most notable works including 37 original illustrations. Books included in this collection: The Prophet The...
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any ...
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Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us f...
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A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues
HardcoverOriginal price $245.00 - Original price $245.00Original price $245.00$276.99$276.99 - $276.99Current price $276.99| /Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imper...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three pl...
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The Battle of Maldon: Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780063338180 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Publication Date: 06-06-2023 Pages: 208 Product Dim...
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Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"So easy to read that one may have to think twice to realize these tales are nearly 2,000 years old." -Washington Post"One of the most captivating ...
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The Oresteia
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes an...
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Terence: Andria
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after a...
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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
PaperbackOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /This book presents ancient Greek tragedy in the context of late-twentieth-century reading, criticism and performance. The twelve chapters, writte...
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Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In this volume, Professor Knox provides the first full-scale commentary in English in this century on a selection from Ovid's Heroides, a collect...
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-5 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time...
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The Greek Epic Cycle / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In the wake of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan ...
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How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a ...
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschyl...
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — class...
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