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Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lostby John Milton, Isaac AsimovISBN 0385079923 (0-385-07992-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentineby Dante Alighieri, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440062 (0-14-044006-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine'Book summary:Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life. In this first part of his "Divine Comedy", Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment. [via]
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Dictionnaire General De LA Langue Francaise Du Commencement Du 17E Siecle Jusqu'a Nos Jours: General Dictionary of the French Language from the Beginby Adophe HatzfeldISBN 0828867666 (0-8288-6766-6)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, H.R. HuseISBN 0030086906 (0-03-008690-6)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 0881036366 (0-88103-636-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: La Batalla De Corrin'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Dune:La Yihad Butleriana / Dune:the Butlerian Yihad: La Yihad Butleriana/ the Butlerian Yihadby Brian Herbert, Random House Mondadori, Domingo SantosISBN 849759682X (84-9759-682-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El Paraiso Perdido / Paradise Lostby John MiltonISBN 8437605911 (84-376-0591-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Paraiso Perdido / Paradise Lost'Book summary:El Paraíso Perdido es la obra de toda una vida dedicada a la literatura, como se desprende del paralelismo de algunas partes de la misma con otros escritos de John Milton (1608-1667).
Dedicado a la política durante un tiempo de la mano de Oliveiro Cromwell, Milton reúne en su literatura todo el enriquecimiento que le aportan los distintos escenarios de su vida diplomática.
Junta a ello su obra irradia el convencimiento pleno en la religión cristiana heredada del mensaje de su padre, un convencido católico ex protestante. Esta segunda parte la desarrola plenamente en este poema bíblico religioso de reminiscencias dantescas.
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Hellby Steve Ellis, Dante AlighieriISBN 0099476711 (0-09-947671-1)
Hardcover, Vintage
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John Milton's Paradise Lostby John Milton, Harold BloomISBN 0877544212 (0-87754-421-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Milton's Paradise Lost'Book summary:John Milton's Paradise Lost reveals much about the relationship between God, the world, and the human race. For Milton, the human condition consists of a tension between demonic and sacred vices. Thus, the human race stands divided against itself and is forever expelled from Eden.
The title, John Miltons Paradise Lost, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on John Miltons Paradise Lost through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on John Milton, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The KalevalaISBN 1404352457 (1-4043-5245-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Kalevalaby Elias Lonnrot, Keith BosleyISBN 019283570X (0-19-283570-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Kalevala : Epic of the Finnish Peopleby Eino FribergISBN 9511101374 (951-1-10137-4)
Hardcover, Egmont Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kalevala : Epic of the Finnish People'Book summary:National Epic of Finland. Epic narrative poetry, originally published in Finnish in 1849. [via]
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Kalevala: The Land of the Heroesby Michael Branch, W.F. KirbyISBN 0485120488 (0-485-12048-8)
Softcover, Athlone Press
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. Tolkien, SparkNotes StaffISBN 1586637908 (1-58663-790-8)
Softcover, Spark Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them[via]
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.
This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but while he studied classic works of the past, he was creating a set of his own.
Praise for The Lord of the Rings
"An extraordinary work -- pure excitement." -- New York Times Book Review
"One of the great fairy-tale quests in modern literature." -- Time
"A remarkable book." -- Newsweek
"One of the very few works of genius in recent literature." -- New Republic
"A work of immense narrative power that can sweep the reader up and hold him enthralled for days and weeks." -- The Nation
"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C. S. Lewis
"The first thing one asks of an adventure story is that the adventure should be various and exciting . . . Tolkien's invention is unflagging." -- W. H. Auden
"J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy remains the ultimate quest, the ultimate battle between good and evil, the ultimate chronicle of stewardship of the earth. Endlessly imitated, it never has been surpassed." -- Kansas City Star
"A masterful story . . . an epic in its own way . . . with elements of high adventure, suspense, mystery, poetry, and fantasy." -- Boston Sunday Herald -
The Mabinogionby Gwyn Jones, Thomas JonesISBN 0460872974 (0-460-87297-4)
Softcover, Everyman
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
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The Mabinogionby Charlotte Guest, AnonymousISBN 1406805092 (1-4068-0509-2)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:A Welsh cycle of Arthurian tales. If you read, as a kid, the Lloyd Alexander series "Chronicles of Prydain," some names might seem familiar. [via]
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Mabinogionby Alan Lee, Charlotte SchreiberISBN 0261103911 (0-261-10391-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mabinogion'Book summary:A major illustrated edition of the classic fantasy with over 50 full-colour paintings by the celebrated artist of The Lord of the Rings. Before The Lord of the Rings there was THE MABINOGION. Widely recognized as the finest arc of Celtic mythology, the eleven stories were preserved in two Welsh collections, The White Book of Rhydderch (c.1300-1325) and The Red Book of Hergest (1375-1425), though the stories themselves hail from an oral tradition dating back to the tenth century. At its core are tales of heroes and men, birth and death, gods and beasts, penance and vindication, kinship and kingship, battles and quests. THE MABINOGION embraces much of ancient and early British culture, combining the numinous world of Celtic mythology, Arthurian legend and feudal Europe's Age of Chivalry. Indeed, scholars have identified that it was out of THE MABINOGION that the Arthurian legends were born. This new edition contains the definitive translation of the work by Lady Charlotte Guest, undoubtably the most accessible of those published, and includes the tale of Taliesin, which has been missing from the collected tales of the Mabinogion for over twenty years. It also contains 50 colour paintings by Alan Lee, many appearing here for the first time. Best known for his work on the illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, it was always Alan Lee's ambition to illustrate THE MABINOGION, as it combines his main interests of folklore, legend and the supernatural. His style lends itself perfectly to the work and his interpretation will give enormous pleasure as the stories enter their third millennium. [via]
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The Mabinogionby Charlotte Schreiber, Charlotte E. GuestISBN 0486295419 (0-486-29541-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:Collection of 12 medieval Welsh stories considered a masterpiece of European literature. Includes Kilhwch and Olwen, one of the earliest Arthurian tales in Welsh; The Dream of Rhonabwy; 3 Arthurian romances: The Lady of the Fountain, Peredur the Son of Evrawc and Geraint the Son of Erbin, and more.[via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
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Mabinogionby J. Thomas, Gwyn JonesISBN 0460042289 (0-460-04228-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via] -
The Mabinogionby Jeffrey GantzISBN 0140443223 (0-14-044322-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the "Mabinogion" passed from generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we know. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and the shadowy otherworld, the tales are permeated by a dreamlike atmosphere. In "Math Son of Mathonwy" two brothers plot to carry off the virginal Goewin, while in "Manawydan Son of Llyr" a chieftain roams throughout Britain after a spell is cast over his land. And King Arthur's court provides the backdrop to tales such as "How Culhwch Won Olwen", in which a young man must complete many tasks before he can marry a giant's daughter. [via]
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The Mabinogionby R. Williams, Charlotte E. GuestISBN 1425490956 (1-4254-9095-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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The Mabinogionby Sioned DaviesISBN 0192832425 (0-19-283242-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history--these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of hanging a pregnant mouse and hunting a magical boar. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence.
This new translation, the first for thirty years, recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales and re-invests the tales with the power of performance. [via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
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Mahadevi Sancayitaby Elias Lonnrot, Francis P. MagounISBN 0674500105 (0-674-50010-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mahadevi Sancayita'Book summary:La primera publicación corresponde al año 1835 y contenía un total de 5.052 versos, congregados en 32 poemas. La reproducción final corresponde a 1849, cuando se publicó en toda su extensión actual de 23.000 versos y 50 poemas.
En su labor meticulosa de recopilación y recomposición, Elias Lönnrot logró acopiar versos provenientes de diferentes fuentes, tanto subjetivas como territoriales. Para ello recurrió a trovadores, narradores, o al examen de la tradición oral en diversas regiones de Finlandia, especialmente en la zona de Carelia.
Lönnrot, en su trabajo de recopilación, acopló y relacionó diferentes testimonios e historias para dotar a la obra de una mejor estructura narrativa. Al mismo tiempo disminuyó la cantidad de personajes y concentró los lugares donde se desarrollan los sucesos. De esta manera logró una mayor coherencia y concreción de esta obra cumbre de la mitología y folclore de Finlandia.
La leyenda, el mito y la evocación poética se enlazan perfectamente en el Kalevala, erigiendo un mundo habitado por héroes de carne y hueso, que oscilan entre lo humano, lo divino y lo esperpéntico. Por eso los actos de los personajes del Kalevala están plagados de extravagancias y deslices humanos. [via] -
Metamorfosis / Metamorphosesby OvidISBN 8437613817 (84-376-1381-7)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorfosis / Metamorphoses'Book summary:La metamorfosis, fuente de inspiración de poetas, humanistas y artistas de todas las épocas, es la más fecunda creación literaria de la antigüedad. Este extenso poema épico ofrece una espléndida muestra mitográfica arropada por un coherente marco filosófico. Doscientas cincuenta historias, mitos y leyendas que abarcan desde el nacimiento de la humanidad y la creación del mundo, en la era de los cataclismos, hasta la muerte y apoteosis de César. La metamorfosis describe lo maravilloso, lo prodigioso, las más increíbles transformaciones, en un estilo rápido y elegante. Se considera uno de los trabajos sobre mitología más populares, una joya de la literatura romana, llegando a ser la obra más conocida por los escritores medievales y por lo tanto teniendo una gran influencia en la poesía medieval. Publio Ovidio Nasón (43 a. C. 17 d. C.), fue un poeta romano muy conocido en su época, y que su talento influyó el mundo artístico europeo por cientos de años. Era caballero de rancia estirpe, de cuya antigüedad se sentía orgulloso. [via]
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Robert Squillace, Frank Justus MillerISBN 1593082762 (1-59308-276-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Ovid's Metamorphoses, completed around AD8, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his theme of transformation. Phaeton, Narcissus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Daedalus and Icarus are only a few of the most famous. Passing through these to the serio-comic retellings of the Trojan War, the travels of Aeneas, and the events of Roman history down to Ovid's own times, his readers find infinite variety in a work that is, by turns, funny, pathetic and violent - always unpredictable and always engrossing. John Dryden's translations are featured in this collaborative Metamorphoses, first issued in 1717, to which eighteen translators contributed under the editorship of Sir Samuel Garth. Composed in a poetic idiom well suited to the satiric and mock-heroic aspects of this work, this is the only translation that can match Ovid's wit and stylistic sophistication. [via]
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- The Metamorphoses: ISBN 1853267902 (1-85326-790-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 1585101036 (1-58510-103-6)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 019283472X (0-19-283472-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 039332642X (0-393-32642-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0451527933 (0-451-52793-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Metamorphoses: ISBN 0393058107 (0-393-05810-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0140440585 (0-14-044058-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0192816918 (0-19-281691-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Metamorphoses: ISBN 0451626222 (0-451-62622-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0192510339 (0-19-251033-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 1593082762 (1-59308-276-2)
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Metamorphosesby Peter Forbes, David Raeburn, Denis FeeneyISBN 014044789X (0-14-044789-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphoses'Book summary:[via]Ovids sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformationoften as a result of love or lustwhere men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
- Includes introduction, a preface to each book, explanatory notes, and an index of people, gods, and places
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The Metamorphoses of Ovidby David R. Slavitt, OvidISBN 0801847982 (0-8018-4798-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid'Book summary:First published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry) [via]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovidby Allen MandelbaumISBN 0156001268 (0-15-600126-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid'Book summary:Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation. [via]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translationby Ovid, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0151705291 (0-15-170529-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation'Book summary:Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation. [via]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: An English Versionby Publius Ovidius NasoISBN 0865470197 (0-86547-019-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid: An English Version'Book summary:[via]Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Andersons skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use.
In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings. Subjects of the stories include Arachne and Niobe; Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; Medea and Jason; Orpheus and Eurydice; and many others, familiar and unfamiliar. For students of Latin-and teachers, too-they provide an interesting experience.
In his introduction the editor discusses Ovids career, the reputation of the Metamorphoses during Ovids time and after, and the various manuscripts that exist or have been known to exist. He describes the general plan of the poem, its main theme, and the problem of its tone. Technical matters, such as style and meter, are also considered. In notes the editor summarizes the story being told before proceeding to the line-by-line textual comments.
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Milton's Paradise Lostby John Milton, Gustave DoreISBN 1841932515 (1-84193-251-5)
Hardcover, Arcturus Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Milton's Paradise Lost'Book summary:Milton follows many classical examples by personifying characters such as Death, Chaos, Mammon, and Sin. These characters interact with the more traditional Christian characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, various angels, and God. He takes as his basis the basic biblical text of the creation and fall of humanity (thus, 'Paradise Lost'), which has taken such hold in the English-speaking world that many images have attained in the popular mind an almost biblical truth to them (in much the same way that popular images of Hell owe much to Dante's Inferno). The text of Genesis was very much in vogue in the mid-1600s (much as it is today) and Paradise Lost attained an almost instant acclaim.[via]More editions of Milton's Paradise Lost:
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Nibelungenliedby A.T. HattoISBN 0140441379 (0-14-044137-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nibelungenlied'Book summary:The classic tale out of German mythology [via]
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Njal's SagaISBN 1853267856 (1-85326-785-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first recounts the touching friendship between noble Gunnar and the statesman Njal, together with the fatal enmity between their wives. The second part works out the central tragedy of the saga, while the third describes the retribution wrought by Flosi and Kari. The saga is remarkable not only for the details of everyday life - the farming, the feasting and the charcoal-burning - but also for the social structure of the society in which that life took place - the Althing or Parliament, the lawmaking and the lawgiving. The grandeur of the narrative and the beauty and distinction of the characters mark Njal's Saga as an essential text for all who love adventure and great literature. [via]
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Ovid's Metamorphosesby Naso Publius OvidiusISBN 0253200016 (0-253-20001-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid Metamorphoses'Book summary:[via]Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Andersons skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use.
In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings. Subjects of the stories include Arachne and Niobe; Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; Medea and Jason; Orpheus and Eurydice; and many others, familiar and unfamiliar. For students of Latin-and teachers, too-they provide an interesting experience.
In his introduction the editor discusses Ovids career, the reputation of the Metamorphoses during Ovids time and after, and the various manuscripts that exist or have been known to exist. He describes the general plan of the poem, its main theme, and the problem of its tone. Technical matters, such as style and meter, are also considered. In notes the editor summarizes the story being told before proceeding to the line-by-line textual comments.
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Ovid's Metamorphosesby Arthur GoldingISBN 0801870607 (0-8018-7060-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'Book summary:This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformedoften by loveinto flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses: Books 1-5by Ovid, William S. AndersonISBN 0806128453 (0-8061-2845-3)
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Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figuresby Ovid, George SandysISBN 0803207182 (0-8032-0718-2)
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Alastair FowlerISBN 1405832789 (1-4058-3278-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:[via]Paradise Lost, by John Milton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:As a young student, John Milton fantasized about bringing the poetic elocution of Homer and Virgil to the English language. Milton realized this dream with his graceful, sonorous Paradise Lost, now considered the most influential epic poem in English literature.
A retelling of the biblical story of mankinds fall from grace, Miltons epic opens shortly after the dramatic expulsion of Satan and his army of angels from Heaven. What follows is a cosmic battle between good and evil that ranges across vast, splendid tracts of time and space, from the wild abyss of Chaos and the fiery lake of Hell to the Gate of Heaven and Gods newly created paradise, the Garden of Eden. Controversy still swirls around Miltons magnificent and sympathetic characterization of Satan, a portrait so compelling that many critics have maintained that he is the true hero of the story.David Hawkes is Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. His books include Idols of the Marketplace (2001) and Ideology (second edition, 2003), and he has contributed articles to The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Journal of the History of Ideas.More editions of Paradise Lost:
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Paradise Lostby Scott Elledge, John MiltonISBN 0393962938 (0-393-96293-8)
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Paradise Lost. Book 10;by John Milton, C.A. Patrides, E. A. J. HonigmannISBN 0333019458 (0-333-01945-8)
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The Portable Danteby Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa, Laurence Binyon, Dante Gabriel RossettISBN 0140231145 (0-14-023114-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Dante'Book summary:As a philosopher, Dante wedded classical methods of enquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared to draw maps of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunciation. As all these things Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) paved the way for modern literature. This volume aims to capture the scope of Dante's genius. It contains complete verse translations of his two masterworks, "The Divine Comedy" and "La Vita Nuova". [via]
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Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphosesby Ovid, Arthur Golding, W.H.D. RouseISBN 0809300621 (0-8093-0062-1)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois University Press
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Sparknotes Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 1586635107 (1-58663-510-7)
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Sundiata - an Epic of Old Maliby D. T. Niane, G. D. PickettISBN 1405849428 (1-4058-4942-8)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Masculino Que Ninguno: Una Perspectiva Sociopersonal De Genero, El Poder Y La Violenciaby Felix A. Roman Tirado, Colectivo e Ideologias y Vivencias de los Generos (Puerto Rico)ISBN 0965017761 (0-9650177-6-1)
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El Paraiso Perdido / Paradise Lostby John MiltonISBN 1583487735 (1-58348-773-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Paraiso Perdido / Paradise Lost'Book summary:El Paraíso Perdido es la obra de toda una vida dedicada a la literatura, como se desprende del paralelismo de algunas partes de la misma con otros escritos de John Milton (1608-1667). Dedicado a la política durante un tiempo de la mano de Oliveiro Cromwell, Milton reúne en su literatura todo el enriquecimiento que le aportan los distintos escenarios de su vida diplomática. Junta a ello su obra irradia el convencimiento pleno en la religión cristiana heredada del mensaje de su padre, un convencido católico ex protestante. Esta segunda parte la desarrola plenamente en este poema bíblico religioso de reminiscencias dantescas. [via]
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El Senor De Los Anillos/the Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 8445070320 (84-450-7032-0)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphosesby R.J. TarrantISBN 0198146663 (0-19-814666-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses'Book summary:For this edition of the Metamorphoses R. J. Tarrant has freshly collated the oldest fragments and manuscripts and has drawn more fully than previous editors on the twelfth-century manuscripts, the earliest extant witnesses to many potentially original readings. He has also given more scope to conjecture than other recent editors, and has been readier than his predecessors to identify certain verses as interpolated. This edition will be indispensable for future study of Ovid's greatest work. [via]
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Le Seigneur Des Anneaux Coffretby J. R. TolkienISBN 2266127454 (2-266-12745-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Seigneur Des Anneaux Coffret'Book summary:Le Tiers Age touche à sa fin, et la Terre du Milieu à son crépuscule. La Compagnie de l'Anneau va donc tâcher de déjouer les projets infernaux de Sauron, force du mal d'autant plus difficile à combattre qu'elle est désincarnée. Qui, des cinq héros, mènera à bien la mission ? Gandalf, grand sage qui seul mesure la portée de la quête ? Aragorn, qui dissimule ses origines princières sous les traits d'un rôdeur taciturne ? Frodon et Sam, qui sont chargés de la phase finale de la mission ou Gollum, créature abjecte qui fut un temps dépositaire de l'anneau ? Mais quel est donc le pouvoir de cet anneau tant convoité ? Quelle est donc la signification de l'énigme qui figure en première page, en manière d'épigraphe ?
Tant de questions qui ne sont qu'une infime partie du mystère féerique qui, depuis 1954, ravit l'imagination, autorisée pour un temps à s'attarder dans un séjour magique aux forêts profondes et ancestrales, aux paysages argentés peuplés d'êtres aériens, de jeunes guerrières intrépides, de destriers sauvages ayant la fierté de leurs maîtres, de viles créatures dont la laideur physique reflète la méchanceté... Tous, nous avons rêvé de ce repos de l'âme, de même que nous avons craint, enfants, la menace sourde et inexplicable. Tolkien, lui, a su nommer cet univers, et en faire une épopée passionnante, quête initiatique où l'errance humaine est regardée avec une tolérance rassurante.
Mais quels sont ces petits êtres rigolos et surprenants, ces "hobbits" ? D'où viennent ces accents folkloriques, ce langage essentiel, cette mélancolie onirique qui teinte l'esprit d'un brouillard étrange une fois le volume refermé ?
Tant de questions auxquelles, heureusement, Tolkien ne répond jamais tout à fait malgré les cartes, généalogies, lexiques et autres appendices passionnants que son imagination prolifique a fournis sur La Terre du Milieu. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Y Mabinogionby Brynley F. Roberts, Dafydd Ifans, Rhiannon IfansISBN 0850887224 (0-85088-722-4)
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