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  • Medieval Tales and Stories

    108 Prose Narratives of the Middle Ages

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Ranging from half-page morality tales to hilarious bawdy stories several pages long, these centuries-old narratives offer revealing glimpses into many elements of medieval culture. Witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, and trial by torture are here, along with church councils, mercantile life, such famous figures as Abelard, Dante, and Giotto, and much ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • English Romantic Poetry

    An Anthology

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
    Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experience, as well as a preoccupation with such theme as nature, death, and the supernatural.This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • Mexican Short Stories / Cuentos mexicanos

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Greatly influenced by Europe's nineteenth-century literary trends, Mexico's writers crafted some of the most phenomenal prose fiction in Spanish America. This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's “Reloj sin dueño” and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's "La mañana ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • First Italian Reader

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Italian
    Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, it features the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and fifty-two others in both the original Italian and expert English translations on the facing pages. Selections include excerpts from poetry, fiction, history, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Poem of My Cid (Selections) / Poema de Mio Cid (Selección)

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Early in the eighth century, Berbers from Morocco invaded Spain and quickly gained control of almost the entire peninsula. During the centuries-long struggle to reconquer their country, Christian warlords carved out small territories from the Moors, including the kingdom of Castile. Rodrigo Diaz, a Castilian knight who reclaimed much of Islamic Spain, ultimately achieved legendary status, and his ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era /Cuentos españoles del Romanticismo

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    These twelve classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the 1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic era, they remain popular with readers of every generation. Featured authors include "Fernán Caballero," Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Mariano José de Larra, Enrique Gil y Carrasco, and Gustavo ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The New Life/La Vita Nuova

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    An exquisite medley of lyrical verse and poetic prose, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ranks among the supreme revelations in the literature of love. Its allegorical view of the soul's crisis and growth combines a narrative with meditations, dreams, songs, and prayers.In this masterpiece of his youth, Dante assembles a selection of his love poems within a prose framework that situates them ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Antonio Machado ...
    Translated by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Master poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary voices of the Generation of 1898 — a brilliant group of writers dedicated to Spain's moral and cultural rebirth after the Spanish-American War. Machado's lyrical Campos poems, tinged with nostalgic ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

    A Photographic Record

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the grounds (now Jackson Park) to marvel at the exhibits and displays housed in some 200 buildings, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum, James Camner ...
    Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers — the names of composers of great American musicals are household words. But many of the stars who introduced these songwriters' classic triumphs and whose names were on everybody's lips a few decades ago have been all but forgotten. Now, with this book, you can take a fascinating journey into the days when Lillian Russell and Frank Daniels, or ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • First French Reader

    A Beginner's Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    This excellent anthology offers the beginning French-language student a first taste of some of the world's most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts from such masterpieces as Les Misérables, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, Carmen, and The Three Musketeers will open new worlds for linguists. Readers will savor the words of fifty great writers of ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Introduction to French Poetry

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    An unusually useful survey of the development of French poetry, this book anthologizes works by France's finest and most influential poets — 30 in all — from the mid-fifteenth century to our own time. Included are such luminaries as Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Chénier, Hugo, Musset, Gautier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD