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Aeschylus IIby David Grene, Richmond LattimorISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Aeschylus II:
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The Art of Strategy: A New Translation of Sun Tzu's Classic, the Art of Warby R.L. Wing, Sun-TzuISBN 0385237847 (0-385-23784-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Strategy: A New Translation of Sun Tzu's Classic, the Art of War'Book summary:More than 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu composed his masterpiece The Art of War which has been used by the world's greatest leaders including Napoleon. Here, Wing makes the influential philosophies of the Orient accessible to all seekers of professional achievement and personal excellence. 20 halftones, 35 illustrations. [via]
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The Art Of Warby Sun Tzu, James ClavellISBN 0385299850 (0-385-29985-0)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Of War'Book summary:If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle....
These are the words of ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, whose now-classic treatise, The Art of War, was written more than 2,500 years ago. Originally a text for victory on the battlefield, the book has vastly transcended its original purpose.
Here is a seminal work on the philosophy of successful leadership that is as applicable to contemporary business as it is to war. Today many leading American business schools use the text as required reading for aspiring managers, and even Oliver Stone's award-winning film Wall Street cites The Art of War as a guide to those who strive for success.
Now acclaimed novelist James Clavell, for whom Sun Tzu's writing has been an inspiration, gives us a newly edited Art of War. Author of the best-selling Asian saga consisting of Shogun, Tai-Pan, Gai-jin, King Rat, Noble House, and Whirlwind, Clavell first heard about Sun Tzu in Hong Kong in 1977, and since then The Art Of War has been his constant companion--he refers to it frequently in Noble House. He has taken a 1910 translation of the book and clarified it for the contemporary reader. This new edition of The Art Of War is an extraordinary book made even more relevant by an extraordinary editor. [via]More editions of The Art Of War:
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The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Lifeby James Clavell, Sun-TzuISBN 0385292163 (0-385-29216-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life'Book summary:The Art of War is the Swiss army knife of military theory--pop out a different tool for any situation. Folded into this small package are compact views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility, and practicality. Thomas Cleary's translation keeps the package tight, with crisp language and short sections. Commentaries from the Chinese tradition trail Sun-tzu's words, elaborating and picking up on puzzling lines. Take the solitary passage: "Do not eat food for their soldiers." Elsewhere, Sun-tzu has told us to plunder the enemy's stores, but now we're not supposed to eat the food? The Tang dynasty commentator Du Mu solves the puzzle nicely, "If the enemy suddenly abandons their food supplies, they should be tested first before eating, lest they be poisoned." Most passages, however, are the pinnacle of succinct clarity: "Lure them in with the prospect of gain, take them by confusion" or "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent." Sun-tzu's maxims are widely applicable beyond the military because they speak directly to the exigencies of survival. Your new tools will serve you well, but don't flaunt them. Remember Sun-tzu's advice: "Though effective, appear to be ineffective." --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Basic Works of Aristotleby Aristotle, Richard McKeon, C.D.C. ReeveISBN 0375757996 (0-375-75799-6)
Softcover, Princeton Review
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The Bhagavad Gitaby Eknath EaswaranISBN 0375705554 (0-375-70555-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Prince Arjuna faced a dilemma that many face sooner or later--whether or not to take action that is necessary yet morally ambiguous. The difference is that Arjuna's action was to wage war against his own family. With the armies arrayed, Arjuna loses his nerve. Krishna, his charioteer and incarnation of divine consciousness, begins to teach him the nature of God and of himself, that Arjuna can attain liberation through union with God, and that there are several available paths. And so the most famous and revered of all Hindu scriptures goes on to teach the paths of knowledge, of devotion, of action, and of meditation, becoming the seed for all the Hindu systems of philosophy and religion that followed. For all of its profundity, Eknath Easwaran manages to translate the Gita in easy prose that neither panders nor obscures. Coupled with his thorough introduction, Easwaran's version comes off on all the levels it should: as a guide to action, as devotional scripture, as a philosophical text, and as inspirational reading. So what does Arjuna finally do? He follows his dharma, of course, as we all must. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Bhagavad-Gitaby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0231064683 (0-231-06468-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:"The Bhagavad-Gita" has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the "Mahabharata." [via]
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Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Editionby J.A. Van BuitenenISBN 0226846628 (0-226-84662-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Edition'Book summary:No other Sanskrit work approaches the Bhagavadgita in the influence it has exerted in the West. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other New England Transcendentalists were deeply affected by its insights, a dozen or more scholars, including Annie Besant and Mahatma Gandhi, have attempted its translation, and thousands of individuals struggling with the problems divided loyalties have found comfort and wisdom in its pages.[via]
The Bhagavadgita ("Song of the Lord") tells of the young and virtuous Prince Arjuna who is driven to lead his forces into battle against an opposing army composed of close relatives and others whom he loves. The Lord Krsna, appearing in the poem as Arjuna's friend and charioteer, persuades him that he must do battle, and we see Arjuna changing from revulsion at the thought of killing members of his family to resignation and awareness of duty, to manly acceptance of his role as warrior and defender of his kingdom.
The Bhagavadgita is a self-contained episode in the Mahabharata, a vast collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and metaphysical doctrine that reflects the history and culture of the whole of Hindu civilization. The present edition forms a part of J. A. B. van Buitenen's widely acclaimed translation of this great work. Here English and Sanskrit are printed on facing pages, enabling those with some knowledge of Sanskrit to appreciate van Buitenen's accurate rendering of the intimate, familial tone and directness of the original poem.More editions of Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Edition:
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The Book of Warby Sun-TzuISBN 0375754776 (0-375-75477-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of War'Book summary:Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars this century if the influence of Clausewitz's On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare. --B.H. Liddel Hart
For two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare was the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun-tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion "total war." His is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic vars.
Now these two great military minds are made to share the same tent, metaphorically speaking, in The Book of War. What a bivouac it is, and what a conversation into the night.
Military writer Ralph Peters has written a new Introduction for this Modern Library edition. [via]More editions of The Book of War:
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0374528373 (0-374-52837-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:Constance Garnetts translation, the basic version in English of this Russian masterpiece, has been revised by the editor for accuracy and readability.
Dostoevskys sources for the characters and situations of the novel are set forth in an extract from Lev Reynuss Dostoevsky and Staraya Russa and in selections from Dostoevskys letters and diary, all translated by Professor Matlaw. Konstantin Mochulskys essay provides a general discussion of the work. Important questions as to the craft of the novel, its characterization, Dostoevskys symbolism, the Grand Inquisitor, and the theme of religious salvation are surveyed in critical pieces by Dmitry Tschizewskij, Robert L. Belknap, Edward Wasiolek, Harry Slochower, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Nathan Rosen, Leonid Grossman, Ya. E. Golosovker, R. P. Blackmur, and Ralph E. Matlaw. Several of these selections are also recently translated from the Russian. A Selected Bibliography is included. [via] 
Bull from the Seaby Mary RenaultISBN 0375726802 (0-375-72680-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Burton RaffelISBN 0300119879 (0-300-11987-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. -
Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
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Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
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Classical Apologetics: A Rational Defense of the Christian Faith and a Critique of Presuppositional Apologeticsby Robert Charles SproulISBN 0310449510 (0-310-44951-0)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Apologetics: A Rational Defense of the Christian Faith and a Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics'Book summary:Must a person accept Christianity on faith alone, or is there a reasoned defense for being a Christian? The authors of this book hold that Christianity is eminently reasonable. The primacy of the mind in the Christian faith can be affirmed without denying the importance of the heart. This book embraces reason without rationalism, personal love without personalism, faith without fideism is our capacity to love Him. The book is divided into three parts. Section I is a prolegomenon dealing with the problems and methods of apologetics. Section II develops the theistic proofs and authority of Scripture. Section III is given over to a critique of presuppositionalism in apologetics, particularly with reference to the thought of Cornelius Van Til. Classical Apologetics will help the thoughtful Christian understand his or her faith better, and it will provide more solid grounds for sharing this faith with others. [via]
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry Thompson Rowell, E. O. LorimerISBN 0300101864 (0-300-10186-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire'Book summary:This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural mix, and the advent of Christianity. The splendor and squalor of the city, the spectacles, and the day's routines are reconstructed from an immense fund of archaeological evidence and from vivid descriptions by ancient poets, satirists, letter-writers, and novelists-from Petronius to Pliny the Younger. In a new Introduction, the eminent classicist Mary Beard appraises the book's enduring-and sometimes surprising-influence and its value for general readers and students. She also provides an up-to-date bibliographic essay. [via]
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry T. RowellISBN 0300000316 (0-300-00031-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Dante's Paradise: Translated With Notes and Commentaryby Mark MusaISBN 0253316197 (0-253-31619-7)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Paradise: Translated With Notes and Commentary'Book summary:The Paradise, which Dante called the sublime canticle, is perhaps the most ambitious book of The Divine Comedy. In this climactic segment, Dante's pilgrim reaches Paradise and encounters the Divine Will. The poet's mystical interpretation of the religious life is a complex and exquisite conclusion to his magnificent trilogy. Mark Musa's powerful and sensitive translation preserves the intricacy of the work while rendering it in clear, rhythmic English. His extensive notes and introductions to each canto make accessible to all readers the diverse and often abstruse ingredients of Dante's unparalleled vision of the Absolute: elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, medieval astrology and science, theological dogma, and the poet's own personal experiences.
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Dante's Purgatoryby Dante AlighieriISBN 0253179262 (0-253-17926-2)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatory'Book summary:Mark Musa again brings his poetic sensitivity and his skill as a translator to the difficult task of making Dante's masterpiece live for English-speaking readers. His rendering of the Purgatory is distinguished by the same flexible iambic verse, the same dignified understatement, and the same elegant clarity that characterizes Dante's own lofty and complex style. Musa's extensive annotation as well as his prose introduction to each of the cantos reveal the hand of the careful scholar and craftsman.
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The Eclogues of Virgil: A Translationby Virgil, David FerryISBN 0374146349 (0-374-14634-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146Bcby Adrian GoldsworthyISBN 0304366420 (0-304-36642-0)
Softcover, Cassell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146Bc'Book summary:Adrian Goldsworthy is one of the best young historians writing today. John Keegan[via]
The Fall of Carthage was the greatest conflict of the ancient world, and thanks to one of the finest historians of our time, this sweeping saga comes to life anew for modern audiences. The cast of endlessly fascinating characters includes the generals Hannibal and Scipio, as well as treacherous chieftains, beautiful princesses, scheming politicians, and tough professional warriors.More editions of The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146Bc:
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The First Man in Romeby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0380710811 (0-380-71081-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Man in Rome'Book summary:When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own -- to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny ... and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook GerzinaISBN 0393926354 (0-393-92635-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden, her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" illuminate important aspects of Burnetts life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations point to Burnetts prominence in popular culture.
"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews and nine recent critical views of The Secret Garden, including Jerry Phillipss sociopolitical interpretation and Phyllis Bixlers comparative analysis of the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
Greece and Rome at Warby Peter ConnollyISBN 035606798X (0-356-06798-X)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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Greek Lyricsby Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226469441 (0-226-46944-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Lyrics'Book summary:"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from sentimentality, and the thrilling ancient names-Anacreon, Alcaeus, Simonides, Sappho-acquire fresh brilliance and vitality under his hand."-Louise Bogan, The New Yorker"The significant quality of Mr. Lattimore's versions is that they are pure. The lenses he provides are as clear as our language is capable of making them."-Moses Hadas, N.Y. Herald Tribune [via]
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393310779 (0-393-31077-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Way'Book summary:The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world."
A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance."
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers GrimmISBN 0307671135 (0-307-67113-5)
Hardcover, Goldencraft
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Oldby Ralph ManheimISBN 0385189508 (0-385-18950-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Tales for Young and Old'Book summary:Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator, has rediscovered in the original German editions of the Grimms' works the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Ralph ManheimISBN 0385110057 (0-385-11005-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Grimms' Fairy TalesISBN 033360184X (0-333-60184-X)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
Find This BookBook summary:The stories collected by the Brothers Grimm are probably the most popular folk tales in the Western world. This selection includes "Rumpelstiltskin", "The Elves and the Shoemaker", "The Goose Girl", "The Frog-Prince", "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and many others. [via]
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History of Romeby Michael GrantISBN 0297774611 (0-297-77461-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sapphoby Sappho, Anne CarsonISBN 0375724516 (0-375-72451-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho'Book summary:A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If Not, Winter Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments in Greek and in English. Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus. Carson's translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love, desire, marriage, exile, cushions, bees, old age, shame, time, chickpeas and many other aspects of the human situation. [via]
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LA Traviataby LA Traviata Giuseppe VerdiISBN 0316568422 (0-316-56842-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Late Roman Armyby Pat Southern, Karen Ramsey DixonISBN 0300068433 (0-300-06843-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors, Including Readingsby Frederick M. WheelockISBN 0389038407 (0-389-03840-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Libraries in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0300097212 (0-300-09721-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Libraries in the Ancient World'Book summary:The Dewey decimal system of cataloguing and its modern successors are relatively new, and they sometimes seem inadequate as ways of organizing knowledge in ever-changing fields of study. But the idea of bringing order to collections of written material is an ancient one, as Lionel Casson writes in this lucid survey of bibliophilia in the ancient Mediterranean. Among the earliest examples of written material that we have are lists of library holdings, clay tablets from Mesopotamia that archive commercial inventories, scholarly texts, and a surprising number of works on witchcraft and remedies against it.
Ancient libraries grew, Casson writes, by many means: by peaceful trade, as when book-hungry Romans spent extravagant sums on Greek texts made in southern Italy; by conquest, as when the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal looted the libraries of his ancient rival Babylon, carting the contents to his capital of Nineveh; and by fiat, as when the Egyptian pharaohs appropriated private collections to round out their own. Those libraries nourished the great philosophers and writers of old, shaping world culture into our own time. But, as Casson ably shows, the enemies of books are many, among them floods, fires, insects, and intolerance. As it is today, so it was in the past, and contending empires and ideologies too often expressed themselves by sacking and burning the collections of their enemies--by reason of which we have only a few of the works that engaged readers in the distant past.
Casson's slender book enhances our understanding of the role of books and their collectors in the ancient world, and bibliophiles and historians alike will find much of value in its pages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Listenby Joseph Kerman, Vivian KermanISBN 0312411235 (0-312-41123-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Listen'Book summary:An introduction to Western music from the Middle Ages through Bach and Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Aaron Copeland and Duke Ellington. Aiming to teach students to listen critically, the book presents the vocabulary, elements, structures, styles and forms of music. Supplementary cassettes or CDs are also available. [via]
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Lucian: Satirical Sketchesby Paul TurnerISBN 0253205816 (0-253-20581-6)
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Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace FrickISBN 0374529264 (0-374-52926-4)
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The Milton Cross New Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Musicby Milton John CrossISBN 0385036353 (0-385-03635-3)
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Mozartby Wolfgang HildesheimerISBN 0374522987 (0-374-52298-7)
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The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spiritby Don CampbellISBN 0380974185 (0-380-97418-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit'Book summary:With a subtitle of Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit, the casual reader might jokingly ask if the book could also improve chances for world peace, bring free and open elections to third world countries, and give your wash whiter whites and brighter brights. Don Campbell's premise is, however, reasonably straightforward: he asserts that the kind of noise to which one is exposed can have important effects on mental and bodily health. As a trial, try protecting your hearing for a few days from the continuous barrage of noise in a typical urban environment; it really does seem to improve one's attitude and fatigue levels.
Where Campbell's ideas become more provocative is in the realm of music. Supported by much anecdotal evidence, he proposes that Classical music with a big "C" (the music of Mozart's period) can reach out to those who are mentally isolated from their fellows, like the autistic, and can help infants react and think better. (Will prenatal music classes be the next big trend for yuppie babies?) In addition, the music of Mozart contributes to the improved functioning of the higher cerebellar functions, including the ability to deal with logical and mathematical concepts, while contemporary rock actually decreases mental acuity. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of Western Music: Classic to Modernby Claude V. PaliscaISBN 039396907X (0-393-96907-X)
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Norton Anthology of Western Music: Classic, Romantic, Modernby Claude V. PaliscaISBN 039395644X (0-393-95644-X)
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The Norton Book of Classical Literatureby Bernard MacGregor Walker KnoxISBN 0393034267 (0-393-03426-7)
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The Odes of Pindarby PindarISBN 0226668452 (0-226-66845-2)
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Plato's Theaetetusby Plato, Seth Benardete, Seth BernardeteISBN 0226670317 (0-226-67031-7)
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"Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.More editions of Plato's Theaetetus:
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Plutarch's Livesby Plutarch, Arthur Hugh CloughISBN 0375756760 (0-375-75676-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plutarch's Lives'Book summary:Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. [via]More editions of Plutarch's Lives:
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Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translationby Plutarch, Arthur Hugh CloughISBN 0375756779 (0-375-75677-9)
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The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. [via]More editions of Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translation:
Poems and Fragmentsby Jim Powell, SapphoISBN 0374253935 (0-374-25393-5)
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The Punic Warsby Adrian GoldsworthyISBN 030435967X (0-304-35967-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Punic Wars'Book summary:An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thoroughly engrossing account of the greatest conflict of antiquity. It will grab the attention of military buffs and general readers alike. The struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage encompassed the First (264-241 B.C.) and Second (149-146 B.C.) Punic Wars; both sides suffered casualties exceeding that of any war fought before the modern era. Its outcome had far-reaching consequences for the Western world, too, as it led to the ascendancy of Rome. In grand narrative style, follow the fighting on land and sea; the terrible pitched battles; and such generals as Hannibal, Fabius Maximus, and Scipio Aemilianus, who finally drove Carthage into the ground. A Main Selection of the History Book Club.[via] 
Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 0375708391 (0-375-70839-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:In the foreword to his version of the Purgatorio, W.S. Merwin dwells on the quasi-insuperable hurdles that any translator of Dante must face. Choosing just a single line from the first canticle, he asks: "How could that, then, really be translated? It could not, of course." This makes Dante's masterpiece sound like the literary equivalent of Mission: Impossible ("Your mission, Mr. Merwin, should you choose to accept it...") Happily, however, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet decided to give it a try. He spent several years wrestling with Dante's inexhaustible tercets, and rather than applying himself to the fire-and-brimstone-scented thrills of the Inferno, Merwin turned to the middle and most humane portion of the entire work: Purgatorio. It's here, in a kind of spiritual halfway house between heaven and hell, that the poem reaches a peak of tenderness and regret--and rises quite literally from the dead.
Merwin's version must be measured against a good many predecessors, from John Ciardi's reader-friendly approach to Allen Mandelbaum's free-versifying to Charles Singleton's prosaic trot. How does this Purgatorio stack up? Very decently indeed. Merwin is something of a strict constructionist, who wants to hew as closely as possible to the syntax and sound of the original Italian. Yet he's no Nabokovian naysayer, slapping himself on the wrist every time he deviates from Dante's text, and he's wisely thrown the rhymes overboard. That leaves him with enough flexibility to echo some of the poem's loveliest effects:
A sweet air that within itself was
Merwin also does a good job capturing Dante's asperity, including his near-proverbial response to a rebuke from main squeeze Beatrice in Canto XXX: "As a mother may seem harsh to her child, / she seemed to me, because the flavor / of raw pity when tasted is bitter." There are moments, of course, when the translator's taste for literalism gets him in trouble. When, for example, Dante is surrounded by a crowd of souls in the second canto, who are astonished to see one of the living among them, he describes them as "quasi oblïando d'ire a farsi belle." A difficult phrase to translate, yes, but Merwin's solution--"forgetting, it seemed, to go and see to their own beauty"--makes it sound as though they're late for an appointment at the hairdresser's. Still, these are minor flaws in a major and often marvelous piece of work. Can we look forward to a paradisiacal follow-up? --James Marcus [via]
unvarying struck me on the forehead,
a stroke no rougher than a gentle breeze,at which the trembling branches all together
bent at once in that direction where
the holy mountain casts its first shadow,without ever leaning over so far from
the upright as to make the small birds stop
the practice of their art in the treetops...
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Purgatorioby Robert HollanderISBN 0385497008 (0-385-49700-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'Book summary:Now I shall sing the second kingdom, there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to heaven. In the second book of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy , Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. As he witnesses the penance required on each successive terrace, Dante often feels the smart of his own sins. His reward will be a walk through the garden of Eden, perhaps the most remarkable invention in the history of literature. Now Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander's own decades of teaching and reasearch. [via]
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Rhetoricby Aristotle, Ingram Bywater, W. Rhys RobertsISBN 039433924X (0-394-33924-X)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0237522837 (0-237-52283-7)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Edmund Dulac, John FitzgeraldISBN 0385001460 (0-385-00146-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a collection of poems authored by Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam. The poems in this title are written into quatrains, Rubaiyat being arabic for root of four, as in four line verses of which quatrains are made up of. This popular edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the edition by Edward Fitzgerald, who translated this work in the late 19th century. [via]
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald, Edmund J. SullivanISBN 0312695276 (0-312-69527-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present, and FitzGerald's rendition of those passionate verses has become one of the best loved poem cycles in the English language.[via]
With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, presented here with Edward FitzGerald's original preface, is truly a classic, and it will stand forever as one of our finest monuments to love.More editions of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matterby Thomas CahillISBN 0385495544 (0-385-49554-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter'Book summary:In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the legacy, good and bad, of the ancient Greeks. From the origins of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European tribes into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, to the formation of the city-states, to the birth of Western literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, art, and architecture, Cahill makes the distant past relevant to the present.
Greek society is one of the two primeval influences on the Western world: While Jews gave us our value system, the Greeks set the foundation and framework for our intellectual lives. They are responsible for our vocabulary, our logic, and our entire system of categorization. They provided the intellectual tools we bring to bear on problems in philosophy, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the other sciences. Their modes of thinking, considered in classical times to be the pinnacle of human achievement, are largely responsible for the shape that the Christian religion took.
But, as Cahill points out, the Greeks left a less appealing bequest as well. They created Western militarism and, in making the warrior the ultimate ideal, perpetrated the assumption that only males could be entrusted with the duties of citizenship. The consequences of their exclusion of women from the political sphere and the social segregation of the sexes continue to reverberate today.
Full of surprising, often controversial, insights, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is a remarkable intellectual adventureconducted by the most companionable guide imaginable. Cahills knowledge of his sources is so intimate that he has made his own fresh translations of the Greek lyric poets for this volume. [via]More editions of Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter:
Sappho: A Garland The Poems and Fragments of Sapphoby Jim PowellISBN 0374524211 (0-374-52421-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone:
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Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-Ch'Ueh-Shan Textsby Roger T. Ames, Sun-TzuISBN 034536239X (0-345-36239-X)
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Tarzan 2 in 1 : Tarzan and the Golden Lion and Tarzan and the Ant Menby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0345413482 (0-345-41348-2)
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Tarzan 2 in 1 : Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terribleby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0345408322 (0-345-40832-2)
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Tarzan 2 in 1 : Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle and Tarzan and the Lost Empireby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0345413474 (0-345-41347-4)
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar/Jungle Tales of Tarzanby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0345408314 (0-345-40831-4)
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The Three Musketeersby Alexandre DumasISBN 0375406573 (0-375-40657-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Alan Furst, Jacques Le ClercqISBN 0375756744 (0-375-75674-4)
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Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea The Bachaeby Paul RocheISBN 0393093123 (0-393-09312-3)
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Three Plays of Euripides:Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchae: Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchaeby Euripides, Paul RocheISBN 0393043827 (0-393-04382-7)
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Who's Who in Classical Mythologyby Michael Grant, John HazelISBN 0297766007 (0-297-76600-7)
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Works Of Hesiod And The Homeric Hymns: Works and Days, Theogony, The Homeric Hymns, The Battle of the Frogs and The Miceby HesiodISBN 0226329658 (0-226-32965-8)
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