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Age of Belief: The Medieval Philosophersby Anne FremantleISBN 0452010098 (0-452-01009-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ancient European Costume and Fashionby Herbert NorrisISBN 0486407233 (0-486-40723-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin MahdiISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Readers for more than three centuries have delighted in The Arabian Nights--a world wherein magic is woven into the fabric of everyday life; a touching, exhilarating mixture of flamboyance, pathos, beauty, and humor. This first serious English translation fully exploits the Middle-Eastern storyteller's art and the variety of levels at which the stories move. [via]
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- Arabian Nights: ISBN 0448169843 (0-448-16984-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Arabian Nights: ISBN 0393959066 (0-393-95906-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Arabian Nights: ISBN 0393027074 (0-393-02707-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Arabian Nights: ISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Arabian Nights: ISBN 0448169843 (0-448-16984-3)
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Arabian Nightsby Earle GoodenowISBN 044806006X (0-448-06006-X)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:A selection of thirteen tales told by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights which enchanted the cruel sultan so much that he gave up executing his daily wives.[via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
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Arabian Nightsby Jack ZipesISBN 0451525426 (0-451-52542-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
The Arabian Nightsby Rene BullISBN 0517619342 (0-517-61934-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, A. S. ByattISBN 0375756752 (0-375-75675-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton's lavish unexpurgated translation, this volume illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original Arabic tales. It includes a wide variety of tales--from magic fairy tales to torrid erotic tales--that reveal a great deal about what life was like in the Middle East during the Medieval period.
* The companion volume to the popular Signet Classic edition of Arabian Nights (8/91), also edited by Jack Zipes
* Jack Zipes is the author of several books of fairy tales and is the editor of the Signet Classic edition of The Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde (5/96)
* These volumes offer the uncensored, erotic versions of the tales, not the rewritten fairy tales for children [via]
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Jack David Zipes, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 061321126X (0-613-21126-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights:
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Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Robert L. MacKISBN 0192834797 (0-19-283479-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:The stories contained in this "store house of ingenious fiction" initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance here. This edition reproduces in its entirety the earliest English translation of the French orientalist Antoine Galland's Mille et une Nuits (1001 Nights), which remained for over a century the only English translation of the story cycle, influencing an incalculable number of writers. In addition, it offers the complete text or the tales supplemented by extensive explanatory notes and plot summaries, which are particularly vital as these expansive stories are complex and interwoven. [via]
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Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance: All 154 Plates from the "Trachtenbuch"by Christoph WeiditzISBN 0486279758 (0-486-27975-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Celliniby Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington SymondsISBN 0394605284 (0-394-60528-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Beardsleys Illustrations for Le Morte D'Arthurby Aubrey Vincent BeardsleyISBN 0486223485 (0-486-22348-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Book Of Five Ringsby Miyamoto MusashiISBN 0553351702 (0-553-35170-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Five Rings'Book summary:To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen, and although you can't do so simply by reading a book, it sure does help--especially if that book is The Book of Five Rings. One of Japan's great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory, and like Sun Tzu's The Art of War it is applicable not only on the battlefield but also in all forms of competition. Always observant, creating confusion, striking at vulnerabilities--these are some of the basic principles. Going deeper, we find suki, the interval of vulnerability, of indecisiveness, of rest, the briefest but most vital moment to strike. In succinct detail, Miyamoto records ideal postures, blows, and psychological tactics to put the enemy off guard and open the way for attack. Most important of all is Miyamoto's concept of rhythm, how all things are in harmony, and that by working with the rhythm of a situation we can turn it to our advantage with little effort. But like Zen, this requires one task above all else, putting the book down and going out to practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Book of Five Rings: (Gorin No Sho)by Musashi Miyamoto, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 055322509X (0-553-22509-X)
Hardcover, Bantam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Five Rings: (Gorin No Sho)'Book summary:Here is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for leaders in all professions, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. The Book of Five Rings which has become a well-known classic among American business people, studied for its insights into the Japanese approach to business strategywas composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Unlike previous editions of The Book of Five Rings , Thomas Cleary's is an accessible translation, free of jargon, with an introduction that presents the spiritual background of the warrior tradition. Along with Musashi's text, Cleary translates another important Japanese classic on leadership and strategy: The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori, which highlights the ethical and spiritual insights of Taoism and Zen as they apply to the way of the warrior. [via]
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The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashiby D. E. TarverISBN 0595230067 (0-595-23006-7)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi'Book summary:Miyamoto MusashiÂs The Book of Five Rings is without doubt the greatest book of its kind ever written. In the last few years MusashiÂs work has become the backbone of many successful businesses. Whether you are trying to gain an advantage in business, achieve higher levels of personal excellence, or understand the warrior mind set, this book is a must.
Tarver brings twenty-five years of study and martial arts experience to this interpretation, and the result is a very clear, deep, easy to understand, and motivating book. [via]
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The Book of the Courtierby Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte, Leonard Eckstein OpdyckeISBN 0486427021 (0-486-42702-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Courtier'Book summary:For centuries, Catiglione's perfect courtier provided a model for the educated classes of Europe; but its colorful dialogues explore vital ethical issues: Should the courtier consciously use "image-management" or rely on natural talents to gain attention? Should he obey the orders of an immoral prince? Sexual equality, modesty and the province of wit are contemplated by nineteen men and four women in this work which influenced Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and later Yeats. [via]
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Book of the Courtierby Baldesar CastiglioneISBN 0385094213 (0-385-09421-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of the Courtier'Book summary:This text is a historical record of conversational leisure at a Renaissance Italian court, a manual of instruction for aspiring courtiers and a handbook. From it spring the behaviour manuals which continue to reveal the ways of "arriviste", from social climber to young business executive. [via]
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The Book of the Courtierby Daniel Javitch, Castiglione, Baldassare, ConteISBN 0393976068 (0-393-97606-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Taleby Geoffrey Chaucer, Maurice HusseyISBN 0521046238 (0-521-04623-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, V.A. Kolve, Glending OlsonISBN 0393925870 (0-393-92587-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic. [via]
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- Canterbury Tales: ISBN 039470293X (0-394-70293-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0395978238 (0-395-97823-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0451529685 (0-451-52968-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460870270 (0-460-87027-0)
Softcover, Everyman - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0671727699 (0-671-72769-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460103075 (0-460-10307-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0393952452 (0-393-95245-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460013076 (0-460-01307-6)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460113070 (0-460-11307-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0486431622 (0-486-43162-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0521311594 (0-521-31159-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0385000286 (0-385-00028-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0516097717 (0-516-09771-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0517606151 (0-517-60615-1)
Hardcover, Avenel Books - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0528826735 (0-528-82673-5)
Hardcover, Checkerboard Pr - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0393925870 (0-393-92587-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Canterbury Tales: ISBN 039470293X (0-394-70293-X)
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Canterbury Talesby LumianskyISBN 0671491288 (0-671-49128-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary: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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The Canterbury Tales : A Selectionby Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald R. Howard, James M. DeanISBN 0451524004 (0-451-52400-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales : A Selection'Book summary:Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury. [via]
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Canterbury Tales and Related Readingsby Geoffery ChaucerISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales and Related Readings'Book summary:NEW...NEW...NEW...Did I say New? Very New [via]
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas TyrwhittISBN 0404015506 (0-404-01550-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucerby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0385098693 (0-385-09869-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Caxton's Malloryby William Matthews, Jamesw SpisakISBN 0520038258 (0-520-03825-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caxton's Mallory'Book summary:Caxton's Malory is the first scholarly edition since the nineteenth century of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Mort D'Arthur as it was printed by William Caxton in 1485. The first volume contains Caxton's text, illustrated with twenty-one beautiful woodcuts from William Copland's edition of 1557. The second volume contains the extensive critical apparatus.[via]More editions of Caxton's Mallory:
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Chaucer: The Canterbury Talesby Steve EllisISBN 0582248817 (0-582-24881-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few.
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The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all.
This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt, S.G.C. Middlemore, Peter GayISBN 0375759263 (0-375-75926-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:Published in 1860, Burckhardts great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire; and of the birth of both the modern state and the modern individual. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West. [via]
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Complete Guide to Heraldryby A. C. Fox-DaviesISBN 0517266431 (0-517-26643-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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A Complete Guide to Heraldryby J. P. Brooke-Little, Arthur Charles Fox-DaviesISBN 051746893X (0-517-46893-X)
Hardcover, Bonanza Books
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The Confessionsby Saint Augustine, Henry ChadwickISBN 0192833723 (0-19-283372-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:Augustine's Confessions is arguably the first, and unequivocally the most influential, religious autobiography in the Christian tradition. Augustine (who was a hard-core hedonist before his sudden conversion) writes about faith with the reckless abandon of a lover; his descriptions of friendship are so beautiful they'll bring tears to your eyes; and his tributes to his mother, Monica, cast eternally fresh light on the unofficial authority of women in the early Church. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Confessions of Augustine in Modern Englishby Sherwood Eliot Wirt, AugustineISBN 031034641X (0-310-34641-X)
Hardcover, Zondervan Pub. House
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby E. M. BlaiklockISBN 034032466X (0-340-32466-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history. [via]
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby Martin E. Marty, Rex Warner, AugustineISBN 0451527801 (0-451-52780-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:Harvard Classics, Vol. 7, Part 1
The origin of the autobiographical tradition, the Confessions of one of the great Fathers of the Church traces a dialogue with his God and a journey toward rising above one's self.
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Confessions of St. Augustineby Rex WarnerISBN 0451624742 (0-451-62474-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of St. Augustine'Book summary:Acknowledged in every age and every nation of the Western World for nearly 1,500 years as one of mankind's great literary treasures, this is the classic autobiography of a man who journeyed from sin to sainthood, from heresy to the heights of theological insight, and from the darkness of worldly ambition to the changeless light of grace. (Literature/Classics) [via]
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby Augustine, Albert Cook OutlerISBN 0486424669 (0-486-42466-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version'Book summary:One of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition recalls crucial events in the author's life: his mid-4th-century origins in rural Algeria; the rise to a lavish lifestyle at the imperial court in Milan; his struggle with sexual desires; eventual renunciation of secular ambitions and marriage; and recovery of his Catholic faith.[via]More editions of The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version:
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby John K. Ryan, AugustineISBN 0385029551 (0-385-02955-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version'Book summary:Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion -- the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded -- Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal.
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Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions, and following his ascent to influence as a teacher of rhetoric in Hippo, Rome, and Milan, Augustine is brutally honest about his proud and amibitious youth. In time, his early loves grow cold and the luster of wordly success fades, leaving him filled with a sense of inner absence, until a movement toward Christian faith takes hold, eventually leading to conversion and the flourishing of a new life. Philosophically and theologically brilliant, sincere in its feeling, and both grounded in history and strikingly contemporary in its resonance, The Confessions of Saint Augustine is a timeless class that will persist as long as humanity continues to long for meaning in life and peace of soul.More editions of The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version:
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Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tablewoven Bandsby Nancy SpiesISBN 0615116817 (0-615-11681-7)
Softcover, Arelate Studio
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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486419177 (0-486-41917-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."[via]More editions of Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments:
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The General Prologue to the Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. SpearingISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales'Book summary: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 Talesby Winthrop WetherbeeISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales'Book summary: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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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas MaloryISBN 0375753222 (0-375-75322-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.
No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnessesCaxtons 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two earlier texts. The Norton Critical Edition is the first edition of Malory to recover important elements of this manuscript: paragraphing marginal annotations hierarchies of narrative division as signaled by size and decorative intricacy of initial capitals and font changes The Norton Critical Edition also represents, in black-letter font, the striking rubrication of proper names in the Winchester Manuscript, reconstructing for readers something of an authentic medieval reading experience, one which gives visual support to Malorys extraordinary representation, in character and setting, of a chivalric ideal. No other student edition of Malory contains such extensive contextual and critical support. [via] -
Le Morte D'Arthurby Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas MaloryISBN 051747977X (0-517-47977-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:An illustrated presentation of the legendary deeds of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table follows Arthur's magical birth and accession to the throne as well as the stories of knights Sir Lancelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Galahad. [via]
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Le Morte D'Arthurby John Matthews, Thomas Malory, Anna-Marie FergusonISBN 0304353671 (0-304-35367-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:A blessed king who strives for peace and justice; the round table where only the most gallant knights may sit; the dramatic quest for the Holy Grail; a fateful romance that destroys a dream: the epic story of King Arthur never fails to stir the imaginations of readers everywhere. This outstanding illustrated version adds to Sir Thomas Malory's skillful recounting with original artwork that creates a unique vision of Camelot. Some of these breathtaking, elaborate watercolors and pens-and-inks have hung in museums, including the depiction of the Tintagel Castle, the Sword in the Stone, Merlin and Nimue, and Guenevere rescued from the stake. With remarkable accuracy, Anna-Marie Ferguson captures every nuance of the historical period-the knights' shining armor, the intricate architecture, and the English forests with their abundant flora and fauna. Yet she also revels in the fantasy, with mysterious and magical landscapes, misty and moonlit. These legends have always been a treat for the mind-and now they are a feast for the eyes, too.[via]
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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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Mabinogionby Alan Lee, Charlotte SchreiberISBN 0261103911 (0-261-10391-1)
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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)
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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] -
Malory's Le Morte D' Arthurby Thomas Malory, Keith BainesISBN 0451528166 (0-451-52816-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Malory's Le Morte D'Arthurby Malory ThomasISBN 0451625676 (0-451-62567-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Paintingby D. V. ThompsonISBN 0486203271 (0-486-20327-1)
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Medieval Costume and How to Recreate Itby Dorothy Hartley, Francis Michael KellyISBN 0486429857 (0-486-42985-7)
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The Medieval Health Handbook Tacuinum Sanitatisby Luisa Cogliati AranoISBN 0214202070 (0-214-20207-0)
Hardcover, Barrie & Jenkins
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The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italyby Odile Redon, Francoise Sabban, Edward Schneider, Silvano ServentiISBN 0226706850 (0-226-70685-0)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Medieval Peopleby Eileen PowerISBN 0486414353 (0-486-41435-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval People'Book summary:Classic study recreates the lives of 6 ordinary people who lived between the 9th and 16th centuries: a peasant on a country estate in Charlemagne's time, a Venetian traveler of the 13th century; a prioress and a Parisian housewife of the 14th century, and a merchant and a cloth maker from the days of Henry VII.[via]More editions of Medieval People:
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My Name Is Redby Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. GoknarISBN 0375706852 (0-375-70685-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Name Is Red'Book summary:From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novelpart murder mystery, part love storyset amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed, and no one in the elite circle can know the full scope or nature of the project.
Panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, and the Sultan demands answers within three days. The only clue to the mysteryor crime?lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Has an avenging angel discovered the blasphemous work? Or is a jealous contender for the hand of Enishtes ravishing daughter, the incomparable Shekure, somehow to blame?
Orhan Pamuks My Name Is Red is at once a fantasy and a philosophical puzzle, a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex, and power. [via] -
The Poetic Eddaby Carolyne LarringtonISBN 0192839462 (0-19-283946-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetic Edda'Book summary:The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems explore the wisdom of the gods and giants, narrating the adventures of the god Thor against the hostile giants and the gods' rivalries amongst themselves. The heroic poems trace the exploits of the hero Helgi and his valkyrie bride, the tragic tale of Sigurd and Brynhild's doomed love, and the terrible drama of Sigurd's widow Gudrun and her children.
Many of the poems predate the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity, allowing us to glimpse the pagan beliefs of the North. Since the rediscovery of the Poetic Edda in the seventeenth century, its poetry has fascinated artists as diverse as Thomas Gray, Richard Wagner, and Jorge Luis Borges.
This is the first complete translation to be published in Britain for fifty years, and it includes a scholarly introduction, notes, a genealogy of the gods and giants, and an index of names. [via]More editions of The Poetic Edda:
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The Poetic Eddaby Lee Milton Hollander, Lee M. HollanderISBN 0292764995 (0-292-76499-5)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."
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The Poetic Eddaby Ursula DronkeISBN 0198114974 (0-19-811497-4)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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The Riverside Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. BensonISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Russian Illuminated Manuscriptsby Olga PopovaISBN 0500273103 (0-500-27310-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas Malory, Keith BainesISBN 0517020602 (0-517-02060-2)
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Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Nightby David Shumaker, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 0517261847 (0-517-26184-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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The Tales of Canterbury: Completeby Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. PrattISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Works of Sir Thomas Maloryby Eugene Vinaver, Thomas MaloryISBN 0198118384 (0-19-811838-4)
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