Beowulf: Translation and Commentary
By: Tom Shippey
4.77
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
Beowulf , composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells …
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
4. Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2)
By: John Buchan
4.09
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top secret mission to investigate a plot to … read more
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5. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more
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6. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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- mythology
"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
7. Grendel
By: John Gardner
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more
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8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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9. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
By: Ellis Peters
4.39
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael... A Morbid Taste for… read more
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10. Eric Brighteyes
By: H. Rider Haggard
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Saga of Eric Brighteyesis the title of an epic Viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns t… read more
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11. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.03
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more
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"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
12. The Transmission of "Beowulf": Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior
By: Leonard Neidorf
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Beowulf, like The Iliadand The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originate… read more
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13. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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14. The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment
By: Leonard Neidorf
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
-This book will be a milestone, and deserves to be widely read. The early Beowulf that overwhelming… read more
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15. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
16. The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explore… read more
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"Heart shall be bolder, harder be purpose, more proud the spirit as our power lessens! Mind shall not falter nor mood waver, though doom shall come and dark conquer."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
"Thus ages pass, and men after men. Mourning voices of women weeping. So the world passes; day follows day, and the dust gathers, his tomb crumbles, as time gnaws it, and his kith and kindred out of k…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
17. Woden: A Historical Companion
By: Stephen Pollington
5.00
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Art and Thought of the "Beowulf" Poet
By: Leonard Neidorf
4.11
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowu… read more
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19. Beowulf: Translation and Commentary
By: Tom Shippey
4.77
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Bhagavad Gita: Lord Krishna's Sacred Teachings on the Battlefield-of-Life
By: Tassanee Sinsakul
5.00
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
This original and innovative translation of The Bhagavad Gita THE BHAGAVAD GITA is one of the worl… read more
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21. Performances of a Death Metal Bard: A Brutal Novella
By: Rob Leigh
4.84
Format: 146 pages, Paperback, Kindle Edition
Unfortunately, Death Metal doesn’t get much play in this sleepy, peaceful, actually kind of boring … read more
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