The Iliad / The Odyssey
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the ener…
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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Metamorphoses
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The Canterbury Tales
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes
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The Odyssey of Homer
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Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh
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Inferno
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?"
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Animal Farm / 1984
This edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels—1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
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Beowulf
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Don Quixote
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The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles
Three epic poems by Hesiod, the 'other' great epic poet of ancient Greece (along with Homer, his near-contemporary).
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The Republic
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Hamlet
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Macbeth
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Alice in Wonderland
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventiona…
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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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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