The Lais of Marie de France
By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of …
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1. Erec and Enide
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, t… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- france
- fiction
- medieval
- fantasy
"Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer à bien dire et à bien enseigner."-Chrétien de Troyes, Erec and Enide
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
By: Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines
3.92
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tra… read more
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- poetry
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- medieval
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"Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cr…"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished…"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
4. Troilus and Criseyde
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth… read more
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- poetry
- medieval
- classics
- fiction
"And after winter folweth grene May."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"The very eyeballs in your skull look dead."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce, What he was doing, he rushed away at once"-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
5. Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remar… read more
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- classics
- france
- fiction
- medieval
- fantasy
6. The Song of Roland
By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- france
- fiction
7. 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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- poetry
- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate 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
8. Oration on the Dignity of Man (None)
By: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , A. Robert Gaponigri
3.06
Format: 220 pages,
An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level, maki… read more
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9. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- classics
10. The Lais of Marie de France
By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
- france
- fiction
- medieval
- fantasy
11. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
12. Parzival
By: Wolfram von Eschenbach
4.39
Format: 288 pages,
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
13. The Book of Margery Kempe
By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more
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14. The Romance of Tristan, The Tale of Tristan's Madness
By: Béroul , None
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
This edition contains perhaps the earliest and most elemental version of the tragic legend of Trist… read more
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15. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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16. 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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17. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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18. The History of the Kings of Britain
By: Lewis Thorpe , Geoffrey of Monmouth
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britaintraces the story of the realm from its suppos… read more
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19. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
By: C.W.R.D. Moseley , John Mandeville
4.02
Format: 982 pages, Paperback
Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy … read more
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20. Pantagruel
By: François Rabelais
4.33
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Francois Rabelais holds a unique place in the history of world literature, and no more so than for … read more
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21. The Rape of the Lock
By: Alexander Pope
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more
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22. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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23. Arthurian Romances
By: Chrétien de Troyes , William W. Kibler , Carleton W. Carroll
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal de… read more
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24. Hero and Leander
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's unfinished masterpiece, as completed by George Chapman (1598). Includes an introduction a… read more
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25. The Romance of the Rose
By: Guillaume de Lorris , Frances Horgan , Jean de Meun
4.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a c… read more
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26. Silence
By: Unknown , Sarah Roche-Mahdi
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of t… read more
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27. Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
4.16
Format: 114 pages,
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28. The Book of the City of Ladies
By: Christine de Pizan , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-… read more
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29. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
By: Machado de Assis
4.25
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia… read more
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- fiction
"Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Diz que o homem tem “uma grande vantagem sobre o resto do universo: sabe que morre, ao passo que o universo ignora-o absolutamente"-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"هر دوره زندگی چاپ جدیدی است که چاپ قبلی را تصحیح میکند و خودش هم در چاپ بعدی تصحیح میشود، تا برسد به چاپ متن نهایی که ناشر به کرم ها تقدیم میکندش."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
30. The Translator of Desires: Poems (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
By: Ibn ʿArabi
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation The Translator of De… read more
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- medieval
- classics
31. Horace
By: Pierre Corneille
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Horace et Le Cid de Corneille ont lancé la tragédie classique française. C'est une pièce sombre qui… read more
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