Tennyson: Poems
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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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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)
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The Chimes
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"She walks in Beauty, like the night
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Or cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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