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Written By: Edgar Allan Poe
Classic Book for the Kindle: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
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Publisher: Public Domain Books
Written By: N/A
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Homer
If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. more..
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Anonymous
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Homer
This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of this epic poem will be gripped by the finely tuned translation and enlightening introduction.
Translated by Robert Fagles
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in the exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels in this story to the historical more..
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Written By: Homer
The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback.
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. The Noonday Press is delighted more..
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Virgil
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic
With his translations of Homer's classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A more..
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Publisher: Tantor Media
Written By: Ilona Andrews
Kate Daniels faces her most powerful foe yet in this fourth entry in Ilona Andrews's New York Times bestselling series. more..
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Written By: Sophocles
"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic
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"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and more..
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