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  • The Flowers of Evil

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Translated by Anthony Mortimer ...
    Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination ... Read more

    $5.79 USD

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  • Italian Renaissance Tales

    Edited by Anthony Mortimer ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems

    by Du Bellay, Ronsard, Anthony Mortimer ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Live now and listen, do not wait in vain Until tomorrow; pluck life's rose today.' Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the extraordinary group known as 'La Pléiade'. Determined to create a national vernacular literature, the Pléiade poets profited from an intense study of Greek and Roman models and from a creative use of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Canzoniere

    by Petrarch ...
    Translated by Anthony Mortimer ...
    The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348. The collection is an examination of the poet's growing spiritual crisis, and also explores important contemporary issues such as the role of the papacy and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Three Plays

    Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants

    by Luigi Pirandello ...
    Translated by Anthony Mortimer ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In his best known play, six characters, imagined but then abandoned by their author, intrude on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The True Prophecies: Prognostications And Oracles of Michael Nostradamus

    by Michael Nostradamus ...
    It is not unusual for Calumny to follow the best Wits, and those whom God hath endowed with so extraordinary Talent, upon weak and slight grounds. It is not also unusual for Men to side easier with calumny against innocent persons, then with those truths that justifie them; therefore no body ought to wonder, if Michael Nostradamus hath been so much cried down and defamed by several Authors, being ... Read more

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  • Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Allen Mandelbaum ...
    A superb translation of Dante’s classic tale that chronicles the poet’s journey through the nine circles of Hell, a dual-language edition vividly rendered and with an introduction and commentary by National Book Award–winning translator Allen Mandelbaum“Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths.”—Robert Fagles, Princeton ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Dante's Divine Comedy in the Original Italian and in English

    by Dante, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...
    This file includes the original (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Inferno) in Italian, plus an English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. According to Wikipedia: "Durante degli Alighieri ( c.1265 - 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later called "Divina" (divine) by Boccaccio ... Read more

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  • The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal (English and French Edition)

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" or "The Flowers of Evil" was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book's publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire's work but ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Delphi Classics)

    by Dante Alighieri, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 6 - Delphi Poets Series
    The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the works of world poet Dante Alighieri, with beautiful illustrations, the original Italian texts and bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dante's life and works* Concise introductions to the poetry* Excellent formatting of the poems* ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, andhas entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Inferno: The Divine Comedy I

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD