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1) The Iliad
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Everyman's library volume 60
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English
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The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins,...
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English
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Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesop’s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike. --Publisher
3) The Aeneid
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English
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"'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter,...
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Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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""There isn't a flaw or misstep or a lack of humility on a single page. I invite you to turn to just one page, to any page, and to let what's there wash over you with its beauty, its clarity, its precision, and its delicately balanced emotional weight." -Ted Kooser "Robert Hedin is one of the quietest, most spiritually sensate poets of our time." -Olga Broumas "Every poem is a creation myth," writes poet Robert Hedin. This long overdue retrospective,...
16) The hotel years
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Publisher
New Directions Paperbook Original
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just after WWI and end in Paris right before the outbreak of WWII.
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are Nabokov's English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals, as well as three never-before-published poems written in English by Nabokov himself. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation.
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English
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Beyong Good and Evil expands on the ideas Nietzsche first published in Thus Spake Zarathustra. Darker in its philosophy, this text questions Christianity as a basis for moral thinking. In its place, Nietzsche calls for the use of bold critical thinking and individualism.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction"--
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