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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.
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Manuale del guerriero della luce
Se accade che il clamore del mondo soffochi la nostra voce interiore, vuol dire che è giunto il momento della lotta: dobbiamo risvegliare il guerriero della luce che dorme in ciascuno di noi e intrapr…
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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe…
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the st…
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The Aeneid
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom.
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Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aen… -
Heroides
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tel…
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Metamorphoses
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn
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In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformat… -
Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third birthday. The novel, written in a stream-of-consciousness style rem…
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Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more …
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Audition
Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best fri…
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in … -
The Song of Roland
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring t…
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The Romance of Tristan
This edition contains perhaps the earliest and most elemental version of the tragic legend of Tristan and Yseult in a distinguished prose translation. Alan S. Fredrick summarizes missing episodes and …
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells o…
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Vita Nuova
Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the…
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