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  • Cuentos De Canterbury
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Ivana Mollo
    ISBN 849764803X (84-9764-803-X)
    Softcover, Edimat Libros

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    For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.
     
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  • Epic of Gilgamesh
    by Andrew George
    ISBN 0140449191 (0-14-044919-1)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    Originally the work of an anonymous Babylonian poet who lived more than 3,700 years ago, The Epic of Gilgamesh tells of the heroic exploits of the ruler of the walled city of Uruk. Not content with the immortality conveyed by the renown of his great deeds, Gilgamesh journeys to the ends of the earth and beyond in his search for eternal life, encountering the wise man Utanapishti, who relates the story of a great flood that swept the earth. This episode and several others in the epic anticipate stories in the Bible and in Homer, to the great interest of biblical and classical scholars. Told with intense feeling and imagination, this masterful tale of love and friendship, duty and death, is more than an object of scholarly concern; it is a vital rendering of universal themes that resonate across the ages and is considered the world's first truly great work of literature. [via]

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  • Epic of Gilgamesh
    by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
    ISBN 0804717117 (0-8047-1711-7)
    Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr

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    This translation is a verse rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of Babylonian poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third millennium B.C. One of the best and most important piece of epic poetry from human history, predating even Homer's Iliad by roughly 1,500 years, the Gilgamesh epic tells of the various adventures of that hero-king, including his quest for immortality and an account of a great flood similar in many details to the Old Testament's story of Noah. Kovacs's edition is satisfying both for its engaging verse translation of the poem itself, as well as for the introduction and appendix that provide historical context, and not least for photographs of Mesopotamian art and of one the actual clay tablets. The tablet was broken into several pieces and incompletely reconstructed, demonstrating the difficulty of the translator's task. [via]

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  • Epic of Gilgamesh
    by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, Gary M. Beckman
    ISBN 0393975169 (0-393-97516-9)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh is the worlds oldest epic masterpiece.

    More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits by finding eternal life.  This Norton Critical Edition presents translations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman of the entire Gilgamesh narrative tradition, with some texts now in English for the first time.  In addition to the eleven tablets of the great Akkadian epic, written around 1700 B.C.E., the book includes seven Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh, written before 2000 B.C.E., as well as the later Hittite version and other related sources, among them a Babylonian parody of the epic.

    "Criticism" provides interpretive essays by William Moran, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Rivkah Harris and concludes with a modern poetic response to the Gilgamesh epic by Hillary Major.

    A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]

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  • Gilgamesh: Epic of Gilgamesh
    Epic of Gilgamesh
    by Gilgamesh
    ISBN 0848805011 (0-8488-0501-1)
    Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
    by N.K. Sandars
    ISBN 014044100X (0-14-044100-X)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    'I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest' Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the third millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a landmark literary exploration of man's search for immortality. N. K. Sandars's lucid, accessible translation is prefaced by a detailed introduction that examines the narrative and historical context of the work. In addition, there is a glossary of names and a map of the Ancient Orient. @UrukRockCity All the ladies want to get it on now that I've slain the demon. But I must decline. I'm a clean man these days. I just can't win with women. Before, nailing all the ladies was bad. Now I refuse to seduce, and the Gods send a giant bull to kill me? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]

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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
    by Not Available
    ISBN 0141026286 (0-14-102628-6)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves to find the secret of eternal life...


    @UrukRockCity All the ladies want to get it on now that Ive slain the demon. But I must decline. Im a clean man these days.

    I just cant win with women. Before, nailing all the ladies was bad. Now I refuse to seduce, and the Gods send a giant bull to kill me?

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  • The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. Spearing
    ISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
    Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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    A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings. [via]

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  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    by Winthrop Wetherbee
    ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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    On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.

    From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]

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  • Gilgamesh
    by David Ferry
    ISBN 0374523835 (0-374-52383-5)
    Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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    This is one of the more recent translations of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, about the hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia whose adventures--searching for eternal life, surviving a worldwide deluge in an ark filled with animals, to name a couple--make up one of oldest pieces of literature on record. David Ferry's version attempts to provide the most readable rendering of the epic, artfully finding a poetic voice that's particularly accessible to the modern ear, as well as working to smooth over the gaps in the poem caused by the fragmentary record of the original clay tablets. [via]

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  • Gilgamesh
    by John Gardner, John Maier, Richard A. Henshaw
    ISBN 0394740890 (0-394-74089-0)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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    The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man of the woods named Enkidu, fight monsters and demonic powers in search of honor and lasting fame. When Enkidu is put to death by the vengeful goddess Ishtar, Gilgamesh travels to the underworld to find an answer to his grief and confront the question of mortality. [via]

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  • Gilgamesh: A New English Version
    by Stephen Mitchell
    ISBN 0743261690 (0-7432-6169-0)
    Softcover, Free Pr

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    An English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the king of Uruk, in an edition that includes an introduction that places the story in its historical and cultural context. [via]

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  • Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
    by Herbert Mason
    ISBN 0618275649 (0-618-27564-9)
    Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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    Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original. [via]

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  • Brault, Gerard J.: LA Chanson De Roland: Oxford Text and English Translation.
    LA Chanson De Roland: Oxford Text and English Translation.
    by Gerard J. Brault
    ISBN 0271003758 (0-271-00375-8)
    Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

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  • Le Chanson De Roland
    by Jonin
    ISBN 2070371506 (2-07-037150-6)
    Softcover, Gallimard

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    448pages. poche. Poche. [via]

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  • The Riverside Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson
    ISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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    This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. [via]

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  • Rome Alive: A Source-Guide Tothe Ancient City
    by Danny P. Jackson, Thom Kapheim, Robert D. Biggs
    ISBN 0865163529 (0-86516-352-9)
    Softcover, Bolchazy Carducci Pub

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    The longing stretch toward the infinite...the reluctant embrace of the temporal. This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Our revised 2nd edition of mankind's first epic features a lucid historical and cultural introduction by Dr. Biggs, a new interpretive essay on the themes of Gilgamesh by James G. Keenan and their echoes in other literature, and ancient world and original illustrations.

    Though The Epic of Gilgamesh exists in several editions, this version has been undertaken with a very specific intent -- to remain faithful to the source material while attempting to convey the poetic scope of a work that is both lusty and tender and that retains the ability to arouse compassion and empathy in all who follow Gilgamesh on his journey. This edition aims to reanimate the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu for modern readers, bringing it new life through indelible poetic images.

    For centuries the beginnings of the literary history of the West were defined by the Hebrew Bible--what most people call the Old Testament--and Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and Odyssey. These texts were once naively imagined to have come about in splendid isolation either as a miracle of divine creation or the spontaneous combustion of the ?Greek genius.? The mighty stream of words down over the millennia to our own time are so many generations of offspring still somehow beholden to their initial begetters. Thus do we construe Western Literature.

    - from Ancient Epic Poetry Chapter 8: Gilgamesh

    Charles Rowan Beye

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    * Story Commentary
    * Historical Notes
    * Illustrated Introduction
    * 15 Original Woodcut Prints
    * 18 Photos

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    Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil With A Chapter On The Gilgamesh Poems - ISBN 0865166072
    The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic - ISBN 0865165467

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  • The Song of Roland
    by Frederick Goldin
    ISBN 0393090086 (0-393-09008-6)
    Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

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  • The Song of Roland
    by Robert Harrison
    ISBN 0451528573 (0-451-52857-3)
    Softcover, Signet Classic

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    It is a timeless story of war and vengeance, of Good versus Evil. And at the center of this heroic epic stands Roland-the supreme embodiment of chivalry and honor. [via]

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  • Song of Roland
    by Dorothy L. Sayers
    ISBN 0140440755 (0-14-044075-5)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    "the earliest, most famous, and greatest of those Old French epics which are called Songs of Deeds"...written around end of 11th century... [via]

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  • Burgess, Glyn S.: The Song of Roland
    The Song of Roland
    by Glyn S. Burgess, Glyn Burgess
    ISBN 0140445323 (0-14-044532-3)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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  • The Song of Roland
    by Leonard Bacon, Dover
    ISBN 0486422402 (0-486-42240-2)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns

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    First and greatest French epic, this 11th-century tale of romance and heroism recounts the adventures of the warrior Roland, nephew to Charlemagne and prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Crystalline translation by Leonard Bacon of a patriotic and poetic story of valor, betrayal, and revenge.
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  • Chanson, Roland De: Song of Roland
    Song of Roland
    by Roland De Chanson
    ISBN 0672604760 (0-672-60476-0)
    Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co

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  • The Song of Roland
    by W.S. Merwin
    ISBN 0375757112 (0-375-75711-2)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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    A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne through the exploits of Charlemagne's nephew, the warrior Roland, who fights bravely to his death in a legendary battle. Against the bloody backdrop of the struggle between Christianity and Islam, The Song of Roland remains a vivid portrayal of medieval life, knightly adventure, and feudal politics. The first great literary works of a culture are its epic chronicles, those that create simple hero-figures about whom the imagination of a nation can crystallize, observed V. S. Pritchett.

    The Song of Roland is animated by the crusading spirit and fortified by national and religious propaganda. This edition features W. S. Merwin's glowing, lyrical translation. [via]

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  • The Tales of Canterbury: Complete
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. Pratt
    ISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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    Tales of Canterbury, The: Complete by Chaucer, Geoffrey; ed. by Robert A. Pratt. 8vo. [via]

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