Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - In Poetry and Prose by Jessie L. Weston (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
While the knights of King Arthur's Round Table are toasting the new year, a colossal stranger clad in green armor bursts in to deliver a formidable challenge: Any of them may strike off the intruder's head as long as he is prepared to receive a similar blow from the Green Knight in one year. Of all the ...Show more
Myths of Babylon by Jake Jackson (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Babylonian myths, inherited in Mesopotamia from Sumeria, influenced by the ancient Assyrians represent a pinnacle of human achievement in the period around 1800 BC. Here we find humankind battling with the elements in their Flood myth, a grim creation story and the great Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the ea ...Show more
Faust: Part Two by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introducti ...Show more
The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures: A Journey to the West in Search of Enlightenment. China's Most Famous Traditional Novel by Wu Cheng'en
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Category: Classics
Join the Monkey King on his fantastic travels in this exciting version of the traditional Chinese folktale "Journey to the West." This legend has delighted countless generations, and this lovely retelling is a wonderful introduction for a new generation of readers.
Cambridge School Shakespeare: King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. The Rex Gibson active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways, sha ...Show more
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms Vol 1 by Lo Kuan-Chung; C. H. Brewitt-Taylor (Translator); Robert E. Hegel (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers. In 220 EC, the 400-year-old rule of the mighty Han dynasty came to an end and three kingdoms contest ...Show more
The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition by Henry Thoreau
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Category: Classics
To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897. In 1897, thirty-five years after ...Show more
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
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Category: Classics
Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon, a hauntingly beautiful child, Fritha, visits Rhayader, bringing with her an injured snow goose. At first, Fritha is scared of Rhayader, with his sinister hump and crooked hand, but he is gentle an ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
As a young Florentine envoy to the courts of France and the Italian principalities, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) was able to observe firsthand the lives of people strongly united under one powerful ruler. His fascination with that political rarity and his intense desire to see the Medici family assume ...Show more
The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoevsky; C. J. Hogarth (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Generally considered something of a departure for Dostoyevsky, The Landlady was first published in 1847, when most of the author's classic novels were still in his future. Set in Saint Petersburg, the novella tells of a brooding, reclusive scholar, Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, who develops an obsession ...Show more
Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) by José Rizal; León Ma. Guerrero (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A scorching expose of the Spanish government's corruption and abuses of power, this novel is famed as a catalyst to the Philippine Revolution. Noli Me Tangere was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism written from the point of view of the oppressed. Its passi ...Show more