Shen Fu Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Shen Fu's reflections in his life as a magistrate's secretary, a loving husband,a painter and an unsuccessful tradesman were written in 1809 and have been a Chinese favorite ever since. Many themes explored in the memoirs give ... more.
The only surviving trilogy in Greek drama surviving from antiquity, Aeschylus follows the tale of the royal family of Argos. Built upon the foundation of Homeric legends, the Oresteia is a story of re ... more.
Gerald of Wales Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The Journey, an accurate and comprehensive history of twelfth-century Wales, is filled with lively anecdotes and folklore; The Description offers a fascinating picture of the life of ordinary Welsh ... more.
Farid ud-Din Attar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
This is a marvelous allegorical rendering of sufism - the secretive and paradoxical form of Islamic mysticism. Like The Canterbury Tales, The Conference of the Birds consists of a group of stories bound to ... more.
Wolfram Von Eschenbach Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The Parzival of Wofram von Eschenbach, one of the world's greatest narrative poems, is the re-creation and completion of the story of the Holy Grail that was left unfinished by its initiator, Chretien de Troyes. Set ... more.
William Shakespeare Random House, Inc Retail Price: $24.00 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $6.01
This volume contains the following works by Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... more.
W.H. Auden Random House, Inc Retail Price: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $3.01
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) is the wittiest, the most urbane, the most civil, companionable, and worldly of English poetry's great twentieth-century masters. He is also, with his exhilerating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all ... more.
Translated with an Introduction by Simon Keynes & M. Lapidge Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The reign of King Alfred the Great (871-99) is among the most stirring periods of English history. As king of Wessex, he strove to emulate those kings of the past who, in his own words, ... more.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Possibly the most noted conqueror in history, Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was victorious over Egypt, Syria, Persian and India. Discover the details of Macedonia's war against Persia, learn about the battles, speeche ... more.
A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety, this book is probably the supreme achievement of Latin poetry. ... more.
Virgil Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Virgil's haunting and enigmatic Eclogues provided the inspiration for the whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. Yet despite their rustic setting and the unparalleled beauty of their phrasing, the Eclogues are anything bu ... more.
Gerald of Wales Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Arguably the most authoritative primary source for what is known about medieval Ireland, this lively history by a twelfth-century Norman describes the land's topography, natural resources, and inhabitants in vi ... more.
Oedipus' doomed life-trying to avoid the curse he's been cursed to bear-towers over Greek tragedy. Translated with lucidity and power, the riddles of Oedipus are potent as they ever were ... more.
Victor Hugo Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put u ... more.
Julius Caesar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars, although based on fact, also served to impress his contemporaries and justify himself to his enemies. The earliest eyewitness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous mem ... more.
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. In the Purgatorio, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mo ... more.
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved B ... more.
The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of hte world, and the cornerstone of Western culture.
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This is one of the finest of epic poems and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain. The hero, El Cid, is a warlord of Herculean stature: superiori to his fellow men in action, of outstanding generalship and courtesy, he is at the ... more.
Cassius Dio Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Following Rome's long road to peace after decades of civil war, Cassius Dio provides the fullest account of the reign of the first emperor in Book 50 through 60 of his Roman history. ... more.
Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
By the time he was fifty Tolstoy had already written War and Peace and Anna Karenin, novels that would assure him of immortality. He had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man ... more.
John Blanchard Evangelical Press Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.5
No single year in history has attracted more attention than A.D. 2000. For more than a decade, countries, communities and individuals set about marking this once-in-a-lifetime moment in a very special way. The resul ... more.
Bruce Catton Random House, Inc Retail Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.96
When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army Of The Potomac ... more.
Troyes Chretien de, Chretien de Troyes, Chretien Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $5.51
This volume contains new prose translations of his five romances: Erec and Enide, which explores the dilemma of the knight who must strive to reconcile the demands of both his honour and his l ... more.
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Eyrbyggja Saga is prominent in the great group of medieval Icelandic sagas that Magnus Magnusson has called 'historical novels - the first novels to be written in Europe.'
Mixing realism with wild Gothic imagination, history with eerie ... more.
Based on the massacre in 778 of Charlemagne's rearguard at Roncesvalles in northern Spain, The Song of Roland transforms a legendary defeat into an epic clash between Christianity and paganism.
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