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Knickerbocker Classics eBook Series

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  • Beowulf

    Series series Knickerbocker Classics
    In this elegant, portable Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes.Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium CE, Beowulf is an Old English epic tale recounting the adventures of Beowulf, a Geatish hero from present-day Sweden. He is called on by Hrothgar, King of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Divine Comedy (Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with an Introduction by Henry Francis Cary)

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in the middle of the 13th century and what is principally known of him comes from his own writings. One of the world’s great literary masterpieces, the “Divine Comedy” is at its heart an allegorical tale regarding man’s search for divinity. The work is divided into three sections, “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso,” each containing thirty-three ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series First Avenue Classics ™
    Along with writing comedic and dramatic plays, William Shakespeare was also a master poet. Using the sonnet structure (three quatrains and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter), he composed 154 poems covering timeless themes of love, beauty, and mortality. The poems' subjects—the Fair Youth, the Dark Lady, and the Rival Poet—have become nearly as famous as the sonnets themselves. While ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Faust

    Goethe's Legendary Masterpiece of Temptation, Redemption, and the Human Soul

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    What would you trade for knowledge? For power? For your soul? Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the defining work of German literature—a philosophical drama that explores the deepest corners of human ambition, morality, and redemption. In a fateful pact with Mephistopheles, Faust exchanges his soul for ultimate knowledge and pleasure, only to face the spiritual consequences of his boundless ... Read more

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  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Collection (Hamlet + The Merchant of Venice + A Midsummer Night's Dream + Romeo and ... Lear + Macbeth + Othello and many more!)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! Besides, it contains links to FREE AUDIOBOOKS that can be downloaded to your device! The Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love's Labour 's Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The ... Read more

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  • Beowulf

    by Anonymous ...
    Beowulf is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English, often cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope, its scenes of blood and battle both stirring and distinctive.The poem, set in Scandinavia, was written in England somewhere between the 8th and the 11th centuries and tells the story of the mighty warrior Beowulf and of his ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.This ... Read more

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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

    $12.59 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

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Earliest English Poems

    Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language.Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English and into a verse form that retains the qualities of Anglo-Saxon metre and alliteration. Included in this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Romance of Tristan

    The Tale of Tristan's Madness

    by Beroul ...
    Translated by Alan Fedrick ...
    One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, and the king's Irish wife Yseut, who fall passionately in love after mistakenly drinking a potion. Their illicit romance remains secret for many years, but the ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Translated by Burton Raffel ...
    Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.This ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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