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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
   ISBN: 0393320979   /   Paperback Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company   /   2001-02 List Price: $13.95
In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literatur ... Read more
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The Odyssey
Author: Homer   ISBN: 0140268863   /   Paperback Publisher: Penguin Classics   /   1999-11-29 List Price: $16.00
Robert Fagles's translation is a jaw-droppingly beautiful rendering of Homer's Odyssey, the most accessible and enthralling epic of classical Greece. Fagles captures the rapid and direct language of the original Greek, while telling the story ... Read more
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The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran   ISBN: 0394404289   /   Hardcover Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf   /   1973-09 List Price: $15.00
In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gif ... Read more
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou   ISBN: 0553279378   /   Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Bantam   /   1983-05-01 List Price: $6.99
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a gr ... Read more
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The Niagara River: Poems (Grove Press Poetry)
Author: Kay Ryan   ISBN: 0802142222   /   Paperback Publisher: Grove Press   /   2005-08-17 List Price: $13.00
Bafflingly effective, this new collection of poetry from the winner of the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize seems too brief and blithe to pack so much wallop. Intense and relaxed, buoyant and rueful, the singular music of Kay Ryan's poetry appeals t ... Read more
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The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Author: Homer   ISBN: 0140275363   /   Paperback Publisher: Penguin Classics   /   1998-11-01 List Price: $17.00
This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibilit ... Read more
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