A History of Ancient Egypt
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The Iliad
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Professor Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno is the best one I have seen, for two reasons. His decision to use unrhymed blank verse allows him to come nearly as close to the meaning of the origin…
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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The Translator of Desires: Poems (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation
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The Translator of Desires , a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165–124… -
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Books of the Dead is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all of history. Embodying a ritual to be performed for the dead, with detailed instructions for the behavior of th…
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The Prince
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term?
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The Odyssey
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
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driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country".
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I Am a Cat
Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic per…
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 031624662X / 9780316246620.)
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On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination.
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The Histories
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.
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