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by Mark Twain

LITERATURE
1985
PAPER
336 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

An enormously influential American book, Twain's masterpiece of boyhood adventure is as much about America's growing pains as it is about Huck's coming of age. (USS41, $7.00)

African Myths of Origin

by Stephe Belcher

LITERATURE
2006
PAPER
544 PAGES

Traditional myths, fables and folklore from across the continent. (AFR163, $17.00)

The Age of Bede

by J.F. Webb | D.H. Farmer

HISTORY
1998
PAPER
288 PAGES

This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century provides insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. (GBR552, $14.00)

The Agricola and the Germania

by Tacitus | Harold Mattingly | S.A. Handford

HISTORY
2010
PAPER
121 PAGES

Two texts of classical antiquity by Tacitus. Agricola is a eulogy for his father-in-law, the governor of Roman Britain. Germania is one of the earliest and most extensive account of the early Germanic World (EUR182, $15.00)

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2001
PAPER
272 PAGES

The text of Shakespeare's dark comedy with scholarly notes. (GBR843, $8.00)

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2001
PAPER
311 PAGES

Dickens was one of many Englishmen who traveled to America, fascinated by the character of the youthful nation. His account of his 1842 voyage is descriptive and often funny. (USM116, $15.00)

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini | George Bull

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1999
PAPER
465 PAGES

The story of a sculptor and goldsmith during the Italina Renaissance. (ITL172, $16.00)

The Beggar's Opera

by John Gay | T.O. Treadwell

LITERATURE
1987
PAPER
128 PAGES

Written in 1728, Gay's ballad opera is satirical look at 18th-century London. (GBR460, $11.00)

The Book of the Courtier

by Baldasar Castiglione

HISTORY
1976
PAPER

Written between 1513-1518, Castiglione's classic book of etiquette was inspired by a series of conversations among a group of aristocrats at the court of Urbino in 1507. Its central theme includes the nature of graceful behaviour, especially the impression of effortlessness, or "sprezzatura." (ITL238, $15.00)

Candide

by Voltaire | John Butt

LITERATURE
1990
PAPER
144 PAGES

The classic satirical French novel and basis for the Bernstein opera. (FRN655, $11.00)

A Celtic Miscellany

by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson

ANTHOLOGY
1975
PAPER
352 PAGES

A compendium of Celtic literature up to the 19th century. (IRE93, $16.00)

Chronicles

by Jean Froissart | Geoffrey Brereton

HISTORY
1978
PAPER

The classic account Europe at the eve of the Dark Ages. (EUR128, $16.00)

The Comedy of Errors

by Frances E. Dolan | William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
1999
PAPER
79 PAGES

Shakespeare's raucus tale of mistaken identities and long-lost twins, set in Ephesus. In a slim, annotated Pelican Shakespeare edition. (GBR773, $7.00)

The Complete Poems

by John Keats | John Barnard

LITERATURE
1977
PAPER
731 PAGES

A portable, paperback edition of all the poems of John Keats. (GBR162, $17.00)

The Conference of Birds

by Farid-Ud-Din Attar

LITERATURE
1984
PAPER
234 PAGES

A classic example of mystic Sufi verse, stunningly translated into English. Attar's masterpiece has had tremendous influence on the West, and was adapted into a fine English poem by Chaucer in the late 14th century. (IRN12, $15.00)

The Confidence-Man, His Masquerade

by Herman Melville

LITERATURE
1991
PAPER
351 PAGES

Melville's final work of prose, a bewildering story of the Devil and his attempt to con a group of travelers aboard a riverboat on the Mississippi. (USS44, $14.00)

A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

LITERATURE
1977
PAPER
410 PAGES

Twain's comic 1889 novel contains some discussion of the merits of monarchy. (GBR326, $10.00)

Coriolanus

by Jonathan Crewe | William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
1999
PAPER
139 PAGES

A tragedy based on the life of Roman leader Gaius Martius Coriolanus, in a slim, annotated Pelican Shakespeare edition. (GBR774, $8.00)

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

LITERATURE
2005
PAPER
1024 PAGES

Perhaps Dickens most famous novel, and certainly his most autobiographical, this classic is noteworthy for its vivid and painful descriptions of orphan life in Victorian London. (GBR381, $9.00)

A Dead Man's Memoir

by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

LITERATURE
2007
PAPER
208 PAGES

Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story about a failed writer that must deal with the theatrics of allowing his play to be taken up for production in a theater. (RUS351, $15.00)

The Debacle

by Emile Zola

LITERATURE
1973
PAPER
509 PAGES

Zola's novel of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune. (FRN251, $16.00)

The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio

LITERATURE
2003
PAPER
909 PAGES

This classic collection of 100 stories takes place in Florence during a plague in 1348. Boccaccio's celebration of passion and disdain for hypocritical clerics serves as a nice foil to Dante's strict moralism. (ITL309, $15.00)

The Devils

by Fyodor Dostoevsky | David Magarshack

LITERATURE
1954
PAPER
704 PAGES

The third of Dostoevsky's major novels is a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. (RUS309, $14.00)

Domestic Manners of the Americans

by Frances Trollope

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1997
PAPER
416 PAGES

An entertaining, classic travelogue of a foreigner's sojourn in Cincinnati. (USM76, $16.00)

Early Christian Lives

by Carolinne White

LITERATURE
1998
PAPER
288 PAGES

These pioneering Lives are central sources for Christian monastic figures from St Antony, who died in 356, to St Benedict (c. 480-547). (REL49, $16.00)

The Economic Consequences of Peace

by John Maynard Keynes

HISTORY
1995
PAPER
336 PAGES

An influential essay, originally published in 1920. (WAR41, $17.00)

Effi Briest

by Theodor Fontane | Peter Demetz

LITERATURE
2001
PAPER
228 PAGES

The sad tale of Effit Briest and her fall from Brandenburg society. (GER87, $15.00)

Exile's Return, A Literary Odyssey in the 1920s

by Malcolm Cowley

LITERATURE
1994
PAPER
347 PAGES

A lively anecdotal account of the Lost Generation experience. (FRN97, $16.00)

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

by Tobias Smollett

LITERATURE
1967
PAPER
416 PAGES

A comic romp through the English and Scottish countryside, first published in 1771. (GBR437, $13.00)

Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism

by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

HISTORY
1998
PAPER
320 PAGES

A classic 19th Century essay on the reigning dictator, his rise to power, and the corresponding currents of barbarism in Argentine history and culture. (ARG18, $17.00)

The Golden Days

by Cao Xueqin | David Hawkes

LITERATURE
1974
PAPER
544 PAGES

The classic enchanting love story set in 18th-century China which follows the Jia family and the magical stone at the center of the tale. (CHN223, $17.00)

The Guide

by R. K. Narayan

LITERATURE
2006
PAPER
240 PAGES

A comic look at the life of a rogue, set in Malgudi, a fictional town in southern India like many of Narayan's novels. Originally published in 1958. (IDA310, $15.00)

Guide to Greece, Central Greece Vol. 1

by Pausanias | Peter Levi

GUIDEBOOK
1984
PAPER
608 PAGES

A sprightly translation of Pausanias's comprehensive guide to the tombs, museums and sites in Central Greece during the height of Roman rule in the 2nd Century. (GRE165, $20.00)

Guide to Greece, Southern Greece Vol II

by Pausanias | Peter Levi

GUIDEBOOK
1984
PAPER
560 PAGES

A foundation of classical archaeology, this ancient guide by the second century AD traveler Pausanias, describes classical buildings, tombs, monuments and statuary as they were during the height of Roman rule. (GRE340, $18.00)

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

LITERATURE
2003
PAPER
280 PAGES

Swift's classic satire about a wayward English seaman's adventures through strangely populated lands. (GRB47, $8.00)

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

by Heinrich Heine | Richie Robertson

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2007
PAPER
360 PAGES

A rich collection of prose by the beloved German Romantic poet, including meditations on travels in the Harz mountains, Lucca and Venice, as well as German history and his Jewish heritage. (GER232, $15.00)

A Hazard of New Fortunes

by William Dean Howells

LITERATURE
2001
PAPER
449 PAGES

A self-made millionaire and a social revolutionary are at odds with each other in Howell's novel set against the backdrop of a 19th-century New York streetcar strike. (NYC201, $17.00)

Hippocratic Writings

by G.E.R Lloyd | W.N. Mann

HISTORY
1984
PAPER

A collection of writings attributed to Hippocrates. (GRE161, $16.00)

The History and Topography of Ireland

by John O'Meara | Gerald of Wales

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
1984
PAPER
144 PAGES

A Norman surveys Ireland circa 1200 in this contemporaneous account of the land, resources and folklore of Medieval Ireland. (IRE92, $14.00)

The History of the Franks

by Gregory of Tours | Lewis Thorpe

HISTORY
1977
PAPER
720 PAGES

A history of life in France under the rule of the Merovingian Kings, written by the sixth-century bishop Gregory of Tours and ably translated by Lewis Thorpe. (FRN529, $20.00)

History of the Kings of Britain

by Geoffrey of Monmouth

LITERATURE
1977
PAPER
384 PAGES

Monmouth vivdly portrays legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur. (GBR829, $17.00)

House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky | David McDuff

LITERATURE
1986
PAPER
362 PAGES

Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel of a man forced to endure ten years in a Siberian prison for the murder of his wife. (RUS261, $12.00)

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Tennyson

LITERATURE
1989
PAPER
371 PAGES

The longest and most ambitious work of his career, Idylls is a reflection of Tennyson's lifelong interest in Arthurian themes. (GBR827, $15.00)

The Iliad

by Homer | Robert Fagles

LITERATURE
2002
PAPER
704 PAGES

In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean. We also carry Fagles's translation of The Odyssey. (Item no. GRE45, $17.00) (GRE173, $17.00)

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer | Robert Fagles

LITERATURE
1990
PAPER
704 PAGES

The acclaimed new translation of Homer's definitive epic poem. (GRE20, $15.00)

The Iliad of Homer, A New Prose Translation

by Homer | Martin Hammond

LITERATURE
1987
PAPER
528 PAGES

(GRE110, $13.00)

The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales

by Lewis Thorpe | Gerald of Wales

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1978
PAPER
274 PAGES

A portrait of Wales as it appeared to a medieval traveler. (GBR312, $16.00)

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

LITERATURE
1998
PAPER
484 PAGES

Hardy's last novel, the story of a young man of the working-class searching for an education and acceptance in the unforgiving world of Victorian England. (GBR450, $10.00)

The Koran

by N. J. Dawood

RELIGION
2004
PAPER
464 PAGES

The clear, fluent, authoritative English rendering of this holiest of Muslim texts preserves the characteristic flavor and rhythm of the original, following the sequence of the Koranic suras (ISL87, $13.00)

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

LITERATURE
2002
PAPER
128 PAGES
FAVORITE

A collection of eleven stories written during the last 10 years of Chekhov's life. A great place to start if you're new to the Russian master's work. (RUS404, $14.00)

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

LITERATURE
2002
PAPER
928 PAGES

The final volume in the Trollope's trilogy. (GBR441, $14.00)

The Last Days of Socrates

by Plato

HISTORY
2003
PAPER
256 PAGES

A Penguin Classics edition of Plato's three dialogues on Socrates, the charges gainst him, his famous defense, and the events leading to his execution. (GRE258, $13.00)

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

by Peter Abelard | Betty Radice

HISTORY
2004
PAPER
309 PAGES

The correspondence of the famous 12th-century lovers, translated from the medieval French. This Penguin Classic edition translated by Betty Radice. Peter Abelard's "Historia Calamitatum" is a classic. (FRN75, $15.00)

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER
864 PAGES

This satirical novel, his sixth, is one of Dicken's few that leaves Mother England for a extended (and caustic) foray onto American shores. Not surprisingly, it followed the author's first voyage to America. (GBR462, $14.00)

The Life and Death of King John

by Claire McEachern | William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER
104 PAGES

The Penguin Classics edition, edited by Claire McEachern. (GBR613, $8.00)

Life of Galileo

by Bertolt Brecht

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2008
PAPER
256 PAGES

Galileo ranks as one of Brecht's most intensely alive, human, and complex characters. In this play, the great Renaissance scientist is locked in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. (ITA70, $13.00)

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself

by J.M. Cohen

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1988
PAPER
316 PAGES

Utterly transformed by her religious experiences and converted at age forty, Saint Teresa feared false mysticism and maintained an analytical and critical view of ecstasy. This book is widely read in Spain. (SPN18, $14.00)

The Long Valley

by John Steinbeck

LITERATURE
1995
PAPER
272 PAGES

A classic collection of 13 of Steinbeck's greatest stories, originally published in 1938 set in California's Salinas River Valley. (USA91, $15.00)

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

LITERATURE
1990
PAPER
528 PAGES

Hawthorne's classic 1860 novel is about American expatriates in Rome whose blissful holiday takes a tragic turn. He vividly describes the sites of Rome and questions the meanings of art and culture. (ITL581, $15.00)

The Marrow of Tradition

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt | Eric J. Sundquist

LITERATURE
1993
PAPER
346 PAGES

Based on the violence that erupted in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898, this novel dramatizes the politically charged race riots that engulfed the city. (USS127, $16.00)

Medea and Other Plays

by Euripides | Philip Vellacott

LITERATURE
1976
PAPER
199 PAGES

Euripides' classic drama of jealously and vengeance is brought to life in a modern translation by Philip Vellacot. (GRE90, $11.00)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by Russ McDonald | William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER
88 PAGES

Shakespeare's delightful comedy of fairies and love-potions featuring the mischeivous Puck. The slim, annotated Pelican Shakespeare edition. (GBR775, $6.00)

News from Nowhere and Other Writings

by William Morris

LITERATURE
1994
PAPER
480 PAGES

English designer and socialist William Morris's utopian novel is short on plot, but long on ideas and evocative descriptions of 19th-century London. (GBR600, $17.00)

The Nibelungenlied

by A. T Hatto

LITERATURE
1965
PAPER
416 PAGES

The definitive Penguin Classics translation of the anonymous 12th-century epic of the life and death of the hero Siegfried and the revenge of his bride Queen Kriemhild. (GER248, $17.00)

Niels Lyhne

by J. P. Jacobsen | Tina Nunnally

LITERATURE
2006
PAPER
187 PAGES

An award-winning translation of the much-loved Danish novel, originally published in 1880. (DMK39, $16.00)

North American Indians

by George Catlin

JOURNAL
2004
PAPER
560 PAGES

A painter and naturally acute observer, Catlin traveled in the Native American lands of the Great Plains from 1831 to 1837. These published journals provide a rare window into a civilization on the verge of annihilation. (USW532, $17.00)

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

LITERATURE
1996
PAPER
219 PAGES

Austen's first novel parodies the Gothic thrillers of her day. Catherine Morland is a country girl spending a season in sophisticated Bath, where she falls for Henry Tilney, who invites her home to his possibly haunted mansion (GBR313, $8.00)

Oblomov

by Ivan Goncharov | David Magarshack

LITERATURE
2005
PAPER
496 PAGES

The masterful portrait of upper-class decline that made Goncharov famous. (RUS310, $16.00)

Once There Was a War

by John Steinbeck

LITERATURE
2007
PAPER
272 PAGES

On assignment for The New York Herald Tribune and writing from Italy, North Africa, and England, Steinbeck crafts an indelible portrait of life in wartime. (GBR722, $15.00)

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Furies.

by Aeschylus | Robert Fagles | W.B. Stanford

LITERATURE
1984
PAPER
335 PAGES

Tales of murder, betrayal and vengeance, this is the great Oresteia trilogy of Aeschylus. (GRE99, $13.00)

Per Gynt, A Dramatic Poem

by Henrik Ibsen

LITERATURE
1966
PAPER
224 PAGES

A Penguin Classics' edition of Ibsen's classic. (NOR59, $11.00)

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER
800 PAGES

First published in installments in 1836 and wildly successful in its day, this is the book that launched Dickens' career. It tells of Samuel Pickwick's highly comedic adventures in the wide world, including a riotous sequence among the aristocrats of Bath. (GBR316, $13.00)

Pictures from Italy

by Charles Dickens

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1998
PAPER
272 PAGES

"Pompeii is something so wonderful" is among the many observations in Dicken's lively reflections of the life, culture and people of Italy, drawn from his time in Genoa in 1844. (ITA119, $15.00)

The Poem of the Cid: A Bilingual Edition with Parallel Text

by Ian Michael | Rita Hamilton | Janet Perry

LITERATURE
1985
PAPER
256 PAGES

The medieval epic in a bilingual edition. (SPN273, $16.00)

The Portable Beat Reader

by Ann Charters

ANTHOLOGY
2003
PAPER
645 PAGES

An anthology of poetry and prose from the Beat generation, including excerpts from Kerouac's "On the Road" and Ginsberg's "Howl" as well as works by Herbert Huncke, Bob Dylan, and others. (GEN130, $20.00)

Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten Dorp

by Desiderius Erasmus

LITERATURE
1994
PAPER
188 PAGES

The classic 1509 satire of false piety and clerical greed. (NTH44, $13.00)

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

by Aeschylus | Philip Vellacott

LITERATURE
1961
PAPER
160 PAGES

The Penguin Classics edition. (GRE248, $13.00)

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

LITERATURE
2003
PAPER
176 PAGES

George Bernard Shaw's renowned adaptation of Ovid's classic myth, later adapted for musical theatre and the screen as My Fair Lady. (GBR534, $10.00)

The Quest of the Holy Grail

by Pauline Matarasso

LITERATURE
1969
PAPER
304 PAGES

The original text of the grail myth, written in 13th-century France. (GBR837, $16.00)

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

LITERATURE
2006
PAPER
268 PAGES

Modern and pre-modern clash in this crisp new edition of Akutagawa's celebrated stories. (JPN317, $17.00)

Reveries of a Solitary Walker

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Peter France

LITERATURE
1980
PAPER
154 PAGES

A classic organized into ten walks Rousseau took through Paris, ruminating on the actions of his past and the components of happiness. (FRN217, $12.00)

The Rise of Silas Lapham

by William Dean Howells

LITERATURE
1983
PAPER
368 PAGES

A classic novel of the Gilded Age, where wealth and the Boston aristocracy collide as entrepreneur Silas Lapham attempts to translate his riches into social status by marrying off his daughters. (BOS21, $16.00)

Robbers and Wallenstein

by Friedrich Schiller

LITERATURE
1980
PAPER
480 PAGES

This Penguin classics edition includes both Schiller's tragedy of liberty and fraternity, Robers, written in 1780, and his masterpeice, the trilogy Wallenstein. (GER255, $17.00)

The Romance of Tristan, And the Tale of Tristan's Madness

by Beroul

LITERATURE
1978
PAPER
176 PAGES

Beroul's French manuscript 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. (GBR832, $13.00)

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER

The Penguin Pelican edition, edited by Peter Holland. (ITL852, $6.00)

Selected Letters

by Madame de Sevigne

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1988
PAPER
319 PAGES

The collected letters of Madame de Sevigne. (FRN226, $16.00)

Selected Poems

by Thomas Hardy

LITERATURE
1998
PAPER
255 PAGES

A collection of the great novelist's poetic works. (GBR826, $14.00)

Selected Poems

by D. H. Lawrence

LITERATURE
2009
PAPER
275 PAGES

A collection of Lawrence's best poetry. (GBR825, $16.00)

Shahnameh, The Persian Book of Kings

by Abolqasem Ferdowsi | Azar Nafisi | Dick Davis

LITERATURE
2007
PAPER
877 PAGES

A sparkling new translation, in verse and prose, of the beloved 10th-century Persian epic. (MDE161, $25.00)

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

by Bartolome de las Casas | Nigel Griffin

HISTORY
1992
PAPER
143 PAGES

A graphic chronicle of human rights abuses and an appeal to the conscience of Spain written in 1542 by a witness. (CRB44, $13.00)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Brian Stone

LITERATURE
1959
PAPER
185 PAGES

Probably the most famous of the romantic tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, this is the 14th-century poem of chivalry and heroism that inspired many others in its wake. (GBR247, $11.00)

The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2001
PAPER

The Pelican Shakespeare edition of the complete sonnets. (GBR760, $8.00)

Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

LITERATURE
1998
PAPER
198 PAGES

This sampling of Pushkin's short stories includes his autobiographical "A Journey to Arzrum," the tale of travels from Moscow across the Caucasus and Georgia to Turkey during the war of 1829. (RUS232, $13.00)

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER

The Penguin Pelican edition, edited by Peter Holland. (ITL851, $7.00)

Tao Te Ching

by D. C. Lao |

RELIGION
1985
PAPER
131 PAGES

Fourth-century B. C. classic by the Taoist poet Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching has been translated more than any other work, and D. C. Lao's stark, lyrical poetry renders both the complexity and simplicity of the original thought. (CHN243, $10.00)

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
1999
PAPER

The Penguin Pelican edition, edited by Peter Holland. (BRM13, $6.00)

Ten Days That Shook the World

by John Reed

HISTORY
2007
PAPER
368 PAGES

An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution by an American journalist, a political classic that captures the spirit of those heady days of excitement and idealism before disillusion and cynicism set in. (RUS13, $13.00)

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

by Sholem Aleichem

LITERATURE
2009
PAPER
352 PAGES

A Penguin Classics edition of Sholem Rabinovich's winning Yiddish tales, including, famously, the source material for Fiddler on the Roof. (RUS387, $16.00)

Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

by Sophocles | Robert Fagles | Bernard Knox

LITERATURE
1984
PAPER
430 PAGES

The Oedipus trilogy, as translated by Robert Fagles. (GRE98, $13.00)

The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice

by William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2001
PAPER

The Pelican Shakespeare edition of this famous tragedy of deception and passion. (ITL936, $6.00)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

by Mary Beth Rose | William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
2000
PAPER
92 PAGES

One of Shakespeare's early comedies. (GBR612, $8.00)

Two Lives of Charlemagne

by Nofker the Stammerer Einhard | Lewis G.M. Thorpe

HISTORY
1969
PAPER
227 PAGES

Two 8th-century histories of Charlemagne and his military conquests. Both present a vivid account of his life and times, already establishing him as a legendary character. (FRN77, $15.00)

Villette

by Charlotte Bronte

LITERATURE
2004
PAPER
672 PAGES

Bronte's last published work, also known as the Brussels novel, is an emotionally complex, somber tale that draws on the author's schoolteacher days. Villette is also a realistic portrait of the cosmopolitan city. (BLG17, $12.00)

The Voyage of Argo

by Apollonius of Rhodes | Emil V. Rieu

LITERATURE
1977
PAPER
224 PAGES

The story of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece along the coast of the Black Sea. (GRE91, $15.00)

The War with Hannibal

by Titus Livy

HISTORY
1965
PAPER
711 PAGES

From a decidedly Roman perspective, the original Roman history of the war with Carthage, translated from Latin. (TUN05, $18.00)

Weep Not, Child

by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

LITERATURE
2012
PAPER
176 PAGES
COMING IN MAY

Ngugi's simple and powerful tale of the effects of the Mau Mau war on individuals and families in Kenya. (EAF388, $15.00)

The Winter's Tale

by Frances E. Dolan | William Shakespeare

LITERATURE
1999
PAPER
116 PAGES

In this tragicomedy, one of the last plays Shakespeare wrote, an infant princess is abandoned, the King of Belgium is forced to disguise himself as a shepard, and the Queen of Sicily resurrected. (GBR614, $8.00)

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