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  • The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics

    International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a sybaritic, cowardly ruler… The Hag of Discord incites a vicious rivalry between monastic orders, which only the good monks’ common devotion to… fortified spirits… is able to allay… The present translation of the mock ... Read more

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  • The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics

    International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a sybaritic, cowardly ruler… The Hag of Discord incites a vicious rivalry between monastic orders, which only the good monks’ common devotion to… fortified spirits… is able to allay… The present translation of the mock ... Read more

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a great German writer of many different genres including plays, poetry, science, and literary critiques. With classics such as Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, and The Sorrows of Young Werther, von Goethe remains one of the most widely read authors today. This edition of Erotica Romana includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony

    The Temptation of St. Antony is based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert. Saint Anthony, while living in the desert, remembers former temptations and is beset by the onslaught of philosophic doubt. ... Read more

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  • Narrative Poems

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  • The Divine Comedy

    Translated by Clive James ...
    “Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen GreenblattThe Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s translation—decades in the making—gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold ... Read more

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  • The Forerunner

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    "Forerunner, The", authored by Kahlil Gibran. This edition delivers a compelling exploration of its central themes and offers readers an immersive and thought-provoking experience. It examines wide-ranging themes that will resonate with thoughtful readers. Readers can expect a clear structure: an engaging opening that establishes stakes, a sequence of scenes or essays that develop central ideas, ... Read more

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  • Faust

    (Part Two)

    Translated by Philip Wayne ...
    The second part of Goethe's masterpiece opens with Faust struggling to recover from the death of his beloved Gretchen. The quick-witted demon Mephistopheles soon persuades him to look beyond his sorrow and enter the world of politics and power, but the great scholar is still eager for new sensations, and asks Mephistopheles to reveal Helen of Troy to him in a vision. Overwhelmed by her beauty, ... Read more

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  • Forefathers' Eve

    Forefathers’ Eve [Dziady] is a four-part dramatic work begun circa 1820 and completed in 1832 – with Part I published only after the poet’s death, in 1860. The drama's title refers to Dziady, an ancient Slavic and Lithuanian feast commemorating the dead. This is the grand work of Polish literature, and it is one that elevates Mickiewicz to a position among the “great Europeans” such as Dante and ... Read more

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  • Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology (1921)

    This early anthology of Russian poetry was compiled and translated by Deutsch and Yermolinksy and was originally published in 1921. It provides a fascinating and absorbing collection of some of the work of Russia’s greatest poets from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Deutsch and Yermolinksy provide a comprehensive and informative look at the subject, making this work a valuable ... Read more

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  • Poems by G. K. Chesterton

    This antiquarian volume contains a collection of poems written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. A delightful collection worthy of a place atop any bookshelf, this compendium is a veritable must-have for fans of Chesterton's work, and is one not to be missed by the discerning collector. The poems contained herein include: 'To Edmund Clerihew Bentley', 'To Hilaire Belloc', 'To M.E.W., Lepanto', 'The ... Read more

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  • Latin Literature

    An Anthology

    by Michael Grant ...
    A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others.This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire such as Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine. The selections cover comedy and epic, history and ... Read more

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