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  • The Liberation of Jerusalem

    by Torquato Tasso, Mark Davie ...
    Translated by Max Wickert ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • The Divine Comedy 1: Hell

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Charles Eliot Norton ...
    Series series World Classics
    'Abandon all hope, you who enter here'Frightened and helpless, Dante is desperate to escape the darkened wood and join his Beloved Beatrice at the gates of Heaven. But fate and fear have other plans. His Vigil can do little to stop the wrath of God. Nor can Dante hope to escape the clutches of the leopard, lion and she-wolf, all guarding his path. There's only one way in – with no way out.As he ... Read more

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  • The Aeneid

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    by Virgil ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epicFleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bulfinch's Mythology

    by Thomas Bulfinch ...
    Series series Leather-bound Classics
    This unabridged edition of the classic guide to western mythology covers everything from Prometheus and Pandora to the Legends of Charlemagne.Beginning in the 1850s, American author Thomas Bulfinch collected ancient and medieval legends and retold them in accessible prose that allowed the average reader to appreciate their beauty and significance. His pioneering work remains one of the most ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aeneid

    by Vergil, Virgil ...
    Translated by Shadi Bartsch ...
    A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland, New StatesmanFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas’s dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Benedict Flynn ...
    Series Book 1 - Divine Comedy
    Dantes Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism. Passing under a lintel emblazoned with these frightening words, the poet is led down into the depths by Virgil and shown those doomed to suffer eternal torment for vices exhibited and sins committed on earth. The Inferno is the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Aeneid of Virgil

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by Allen Mandelbaum ...
    Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    The Inferno is by far the most popular and well-known of the books in the Divine Comedy trilogy because of its depiction and understanding of the moral and spiritual pitfalls which still plague us today. This edition is illustrated with astonishing artworks, from Hieronymus Bosch's depictions of a surreal, hellish landscapes and other Renaissance visions of the Last Judgement, to Gustave Doré's ... Read more

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  • Bulfinch's Mythology: Age of Fable, Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne

    by Thomas Bulfinch ...
    The introduction begins: "The literature of our time, as of all the centuries of Christendom, is full of allusions to the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and Romans. Occasionally, and, in modern days, more often, it contains allusions to the worship and the superstitions of the northern nations of Europe. The object of this book is to teach readers who are not yet familiar with the writers of ... Read more

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  • Orlando Furioso

    Part One

    Translated by Barbara Reynolds ...
    by Ludovico Ariosto ...
    Series Book 1 - Orlando Furioso
    One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty soon inspires his cousin Rinaldo to challenge him to a duel - but during their battle, Angelica ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Orlando Furioso

    by Ludovico Ariosto ...
    Translated by Guido Waldman ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Divine Comedy

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    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

    $13.69 USD

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