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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Complete Seriesby Richard ProudfootISBN 0174436157 (0-17-443615-7)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Complete Series'Book summary:The Complete Arden Shakespeare, published for the first time in 1998, is now available in an updated hardback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. The updated edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.A general introduction by the three General Editors of the ongoing Arden Shakespeare series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's 'uvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.A The sound, reliable, critical edition of Shakespeare's workA Updated and revised to include all of the editions currently available in the Arden Third SeriesA Includes The Two Noble Kinsmen, the Poems and the SonnetsA General introduction by the Arden General EditorsA Brief contextual introductions to each playA Glossary with about 400 entries [via]
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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Beowulf: A Verse Translationby Daniel Donoghue, Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393975800 (0-393-97580-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: A Verse Translation'Book summary:Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaneys translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).
The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaneys clear and insightful introduction to Beowulf provides students with an understanding of both the poems history in the canon and Heaneys own translation process. [via]More editions of Beowulf: A Verse Translation:
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Come, Fill the Cup: The Rubaiyat or Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, A. W. KuISBN 0965574318 (0-9655743-1-8)
Softcover, Tortellini Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Come, Fill the Cup: The Rubaiyat or Omar Khayyam'Book summary:Edward FitzGerald's great free translation of the quatrains by the Persian poet, Omar Khayyám, contains many of the most quoted and beloved lines of English poetry. 2009 will mark the 150th anniversary of this passionate and ironic poem, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Come, Fill the Cup ~ The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám contains the 1st and 4th editions of the poem, commentary and notes by Fitzgerald, and remarks by notable critics of his era. Included also are variations of lines from the 2nd and 3rd editions. [via]
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140441050 (0-14-044105-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:Dante (12651321) is the greatest of Italian poets, and his Divine Comedy is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady he combined them into a great allegory of the souls search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. In Paradise, which T. S. Eliot among others has found either incomprehensible or intensely exciting, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God. Translated by and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers [via]
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Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatoryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440461 (0-14-044046-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatory'Book summary:Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a stronger and better man. For it is only when he has learned from each of these levels that he can ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden. The second part of one of the greatest epic poems, Purgatory is an enthralling Christian allegory of sin, redemption and ultimate enlightenment. [via]
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The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0155126105 (0-15-512610-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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The Complete Pelican Shakespeareby Alfred HarbageISBN 0140714499 (0-14-071449-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME SHAKESPEARE,
INCLUDING ALL THE PLAYS AND POEMS,
NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this fully revised new hardcover edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare.
Since the series debuted more than forty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized our understanding of William Shakespeare, his time, and his works. With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date research and debate, this revised edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare will be the premier choice for students, professors, and general readers for decades to come.
The general editors of the series-world-renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA - devoted seven years to preparing introductions and notes with a team of eminent scholars to the forty volumes of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Now, the new series is complete and available in one lavish and complete edition.
* Authoritative and meticulously researched texts
* Illuminating new introductions and notes by distinguished authors
* Essays on Shakespeare's life, the theatrical world of his time, and the selection of texts
* A handsome new design inside and out * Deluxe packaging, including a full-linen case, ribbon marker, Smyth-sewn binding, printed endpapers, acid-free paper, and illustrations throughout
* Photos and drawings reflecting Shakespeare's theatrical legacy
* Line numbers marking every tenth line and footnote references
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The Complete Pelican Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0141000589 (0-14-100058-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Pelican Shakespeare'Book summary:This edition of Shakespeare's complete works aims to combine accessibility with scholarship. Each play or poetry collection has an introduction which includes textual and literary-historical issues and there are same-page notes for ease of reference. [via]
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, John H. Fisher, John C. HodgesISBN 0030286123 (0-03-028612-3)
Hardcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer'Book summary:The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer is intended to make Chaucer;s texts accessible with a minimum of scholary interference. The critical, biographical, and linguistic essays are grouped at the end so as not to impede the approach to the text. By doing so, the student is able to enjoy the richness and humor of The Canterbury Tales as well as the beauty of Troylus and Criseyde. This collection will create a deeper appreciation for Chaucer and his genius. [via]
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The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Peter AlexanderISBN 0004356373 (0-00-435637-3)
Hardcover, Collins Liturgical Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works'Book summary:THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME SHAKESPEARE,
INCLUDING ALL THE PLAYS AND POEMS,
NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this fully revised new hardcover edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare.
Since the series debuted more than forty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized our understanding of William Shakespeare, his time, and his works. With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date research and debate, this revised edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare will be the premier choice for students, professors, and general readers for decades to come.
The general editors of the series-world-renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA - devoted seven years to preparing introductions and notes with a team of eminent scholars to the forty volumes of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Now, the new series is complete and available in one lavish and complete edition.
* Authoritative and meticulously researched texts
* Illuminating new introductions and notes by distinguished authors
* Essays on Shakespeare's life, the theatrical world of his time, and the selection of texts
* A handsome new design inside and out * Deluxe packaging, including a full-linen case, ribbon marker, Smyth-sewn binding, printed endpapers, acid-free paper, and illustrations throughout
* Photos and drawings reflecting Shakespeare's theatrical legacy
* Line numbers marking every tenth line and footnote references
* Both glossorial and explanatory notes appearing conveniently at the foot of the page [via] -
Complete Worksby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0192541196 (0-19-254119-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works'Book summary:This book is a replica of the original from the collections of The New York Public Library; it was produced from digital images created by The New York Public Library and its partners as part of their preservation efforts. To enhance your reading pleasure, the aging and scanning artifacts have been removed using patented page cleaning technology. We hope you enjoy the result. [via]
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Complete Works of Shakespeareby CraigISBN 0192541021 (0-19-254102-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Peter AckroydISBN 0007208316 (0-00-720831-6)
Softcover, Collins Harvill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'Book summary:The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bards plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for its clarity and scholarship.
Described in the Guardian on its first publication in 1951 as a symbol in the history of our national culture, the Collins edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, has long been established as one of the most authoritative editions of Shakespeares works, and was chosen by the BBC as the basis for its televised cycle of the plays.
The book starts with two specially written articles a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and a wide-ranging introduction to Shakespeare theatre by the late Anthony Burgess. Each play is also introduced by academics from Glasgow University, where Professor Alexander undertook his editing.
New to this edition is an internet resources section, providing details of the most useful Shakespeare websites. In addition, the invaluable glossary of over 2,500 entries explaining the meaning of obsolete words and phrases (complete with line references) has been expanded and redesigned to make it much easier to use.
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare : The Alexander Textby William Shakespeare, Alexander TextISBN 0004704746 (0-00-470474-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare : The Alexander Text'Book summary:This single-volume edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare includes commissioned introductions to each of the plays and poems by a team of academics, including John Jowett and Philip Hobsbaum, with a textual introduction by the Shakespearean scholar Alec Yearling explaining the significance of the Alexander edition. This volume also includes a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and an introduction to Shakespeare's theatre by Anthony Burgess. [via]
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The Complete Works/Red Leather Editionby William ShakespeareISBN 0191900451 (0-19-190045-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedyby Mark Musa, Dante AlighieriISBN 0253341418 (0-253-34141-8)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press
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Dante's Divine Comedy: 15th-Century Manuscriptby Dante Alighieri, Sergio Samek Ludovici, Nino RavennaISBN 0517282879 (0-517-28287-9)
Hardcover
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Divina Comedia / Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 8437607299 (84-376-0729-9)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divina Comedia / Divine Comedy'Book summary:La figura de Dante sobresale indiscutiblemente por encima de sus contemporaneos. A caballo entre dos siglos, la edad vieja, duecuento, y la nueva, trecento, se funden en su obra. De la primera recoge la sutil tematica -stilnovista-, irradiando su propia erudicion en todos los campos del saber; el trecento manifiesta una concepcion mas moderna del gusto, un interes mas discreto para los clasicos y una vision mas amplia de la vida moral. La comoposicion de la Divina Comedia ocupo los ultimos quince anos de la vida de Dante, convirtiendose en un empeño de caracter cientifico, filosofico, teologico e historico, a la vez que en una experiencia ascetica que acomete el alma del poeta. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, David H. Higgins, C. H. SissonISBN 0192835025 (0-19-283502-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:Dante Alighieri The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. [via]
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- The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0394701267 (0-394-70126-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0486411273 (0-486-41127-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0882950282 (0-88295-028-2)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0679433139 (0-679-43313-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0785821201 (0-7858-2120-1)
Hardcover, Chartwell Books - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0030086906 (0-03-008690-6)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0140444416 (0-14-044441-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0460875221 (0-460-87522-1)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M. - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0895268817 (0-89526-881-7)
Softcover, Gateway Books - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0192810960 (0-19-281096-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 085635273X (0-85635-273-X)
Hardcover, Carcanet New Press - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0890095957 (0-89009-595-7)
Hardcover, Book Sales - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0192835025 (0-19-283502-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0394701267 (0-394-70126-7)
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The Divine Comedyby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451208633 (0-451-20863-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.
Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via] -
The Divine Comedyby Peter Dale, Alighieri DanteISBN 0856462802 (0-85646-280-2)
Softcover, Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:Dante's masterpiece is undoubtedly one of the supreme works of world literature. Peter Dale's achievement has been to produce a complete version in modern English that echoes Dante's "sweet new style" while keeping to the poet's demanding terza rima verse pattern. It is a handsome reader's edition -- accurate, clear and compelling -- and contains a fascinating introduction on the poem's history, and its influence on English poetry through the ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Alighieri Dante, David H. Higgins, SissonISBN 0192830732 (0-19-283073-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Robert M. DurlingISBN 019508747X (0-19-508747-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Infernoby Robert M. Durling, Ronald L. Martinez, Alighieri DanteISBN 0195087402 (0-19-508740-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno'Book summary:This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima . Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorioby Robert M. Durling, Robert Turner, Ronald L. MartinezISBN 0195087410 (0-19-508741-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio'Book summary:The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax.
Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno. Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes.
Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. [via]More editions of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio:
The Divine Comedy: Text With Translation in the Metre of the Original by Geoffrey L. Bickerstethby Geoffrey BickerstethISBN 063112926X (0-631-12926-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 9706660488 (970-666-048-8)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo
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Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary, Claire HonessISBN 1853267872 (1-85326-787-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In The Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters. [via]
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The Little Book of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Omar KhayyamISBN 1852307188 (1-85230-718-8)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 9583004472 (958-30-0447-2)
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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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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The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyatby Omar Khayyam, Herbert Cole, Edward Fitzgerald, Richard Le GallienneISBN 0974566713 (0-9745667-1-3)
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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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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzgeraldISBN 1406811564 (1-4068-1156-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower than once has blown for ever dies. -XXVI Though it's difficult to imagine, these 12th-century stanzas-oft quoted and frequently looked to for inspiration by those seeking to live life to the fullest-did not come to the public's attention until Edward FitzGerald published them in English in 1859... and even then they were ignored until the painter Dante Rossetti discovered a remaindered copy two years later and excitedly spread news of it around his intellectual and artistic circles. Not a direct translation, these liberal interpretations make Khayyám's verse accessible to readers in the English language. Several editions of FitzGerald's work are included in this volume, allowing the reader multiple approaches to their wisdom and beauty. Persian astronomer and poet OMAR KHAYYÁM (1048-1131) also authored works on music and mathematics. British poet and translator EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) also wrote Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances (1852) and translated from the Spanish Six Dramas of Pedro Caulderon (1853). [via]
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Christopher DeckerISBN 0813916895 (0-8139-1689-5)
Hardcover, University Press of Virginia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Edition'Book summary:One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám (10481122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. The 5th edition incorporates FitzGerald's handwritten changes in the 4th edition, and is traditionally printed with the 1st edition. Notes explaining Persian names and unfamiliar terms.[via]More editions of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby John Heath-Stubbs, Peter Avery, Omar KhayyamISBN 0713911344 (0-7139-1134-4)
Hardcover, A. Lane
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Peter Avery, Omar Khayyam, John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, Edward FitzgeraldISBN 0140059547 (0-14-005954-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power and offers a view of life characteristic of his stormy times, with striking relevance to the present day. This translation by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs is beautifully and lavishly illustrated in colour with numerous examples of Persian miniature painting. It also contains a valuable introduction and several appendices, including an essay on Persian painting. [via]
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Richard Le Gallienne, Omar KhayyamISBN 0841457565 (0-8414-5756-5)
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Shoshana BrickmanISBN 9654942151 (965-494-215-1)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899by Edward FitzgeraldISBN 0766176673 (0-7661-7667-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899'Book summary:This volume contains an English rendering in quatrains of the first, second and fifth editions of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, together with notes indicating the minor variants found in the third and fourth editions. [via]
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899by Gilbert James, Edward Fitzgerald, James GilbertISBN 1594621586 (1-59462-158-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899'Book summary:Edward Fitzgerald, whom the world has already learned, in spite of his own efforts to remain wathin the shadow of anonymity, to look upon as one of the rarest poets of the century, was born at Bredfield, in Suffolk, on the 31st of March, 1809. He was the third son of John Purcell, of Kilkenny, in Ireland, who, marrying Miss Mary Frances Fitzgerald, daughter of John Fitzgerald, of Williamstown, County Waterford, added that distinguished name to his own patronymic; and the future Omar was thus doubly of Irish extraction. (Both the families of Purcell and Fitzgerald claim descent from Norman warriors of the eleventh century.) This circumstance is thought to have had some influence in attracting him to the study of Persian poetry Iran and Erin being almost convertible terms in the early days of modern ethnology. [via]
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Other Persian Poemsby Omar Khayyam, ArberryISBN 0460019961 (0-460-01996-1)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Bird Parliamentby Tony BriggsISBN 0460879545 (0-460-87954-5)
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Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaamby Omar Khayyam, Robert Graves, Omar Ali ShahISBN 0140034080 (0-14-003408-0)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0155805304 (0-15-580530-4)
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The Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-Gita as It Isby A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaISBN 9185580465 (91-85580-46-5)
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 019812919X (0-19-812919-X)
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Taylor, Stanley WellsISBN 0198117477 (0-19-811747-7)
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The edition abounds in unique features. It is the first volume to provide edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance somes years later. Other plays, such as Hamlet, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida, are based on what recent research identifies as Shakespeare's revised text. Major textual alternatives--first versions of revised passages, omitted lines--are printed as additional passages. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. Specially designed brackets idenify conjectural stage direction and speech prefixes. In most respects, the text is identical to that of the "old-spelling" edition, but spelling and punctuation have been freshly modernized. There is a General Introduction along with brief, factual introductions to each work.
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Works of Geoffrey Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, F. N. RobinsonISBN 0192811576 (0-19-281157-6)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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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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La Divina Comedia / The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 9583000760 (958-30-0076-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Divina Comedia / The Divine Comedy'Book summary:La figura de Dante sobresale indiscutiblemente por encima de sus contemporaneos. A caballo entre dos siglos, la edad vieja, duecuento, y la nueva, trecento, se funden en su obra. De la primera recoge la sutil tematica -stilnovista-, irradiando su propia erudicion en todos los campos del saber; el trecento manifiesta una concepcion mas moderna del gusto, un interes mas discreto para los clasicos y una vision mas amplia de la vida moral. La comoposicion de la Divina Comedia ocupo los ultimos quince anos de la vida de Dante, convirtiendose en un empeño de caracter cientifico, filosofico, teologico e historico, a la vez que en una experiencia ascetica que acomete el alma del poeta. [via]
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Las Rubaiyyatby Omar KayyamISBN 847640932X (84-7640-932-X)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Rubaiyyat'Book summary:Desde la primera aparición en el Occidente de Las Rubaiyat en 1859, estas cuartetas, escritas entre los siglos XI y XII, han conocido un éxito y una difusión poco habituales para obras de tal naturaleza. Aquí queda para el lector esta joya de la literatura universal tomada de la versión francesa de Franz Toussaint en atención a sus valores de claridad , sencillez y elegancia. [via]
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La Divine Comedieby Dante Alighieri, Didier Marc GarinISBN 2729114599 (2-7291-1459-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Divine Comedie'Book summary:Oeuvre fondatrice de la poésie italienne, La Divine Comédie fut composée par Dante entre 1306 et 1321. Épopée métaphysique, récit d'une véritable vision dont l'auteur aurait fait l'expérience ? Le voici perdu en une "forêt obscure", s'éveillant comme hébété en un monde parallèle où Virgile - son maître spirituel - apparaît bientôt et lui tend une main secourable. Le voyage, ce parcours initiatique menant à la clarté divine, s'ouvre sur la traversée des neuf cercles de l'Enfer, sondant à la fois la symbolique chrétienne et les recoins les plus funestes de l'âme humaine. S'ensuit un vibrant périple au Purgatoire, au terme duquel Dante rencontrera Béatrice (la béatitude...), cette figure rayonnante et céleste qu'il poursuivra avec passion jusqu'aux portes du Paradis. Étonnante de modernité et affranchie des contraintes de la doctrine, La Divine Comédie est également remarquable par sa structure qui constitue un véritable monument de la poésie classique. Une oeuvre dont bien des poètes ont envié la perfection, à commencer par Charles Baudelaire. --Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot [via]
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