The Beowulf Manuscript
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"Beowulf" is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as...
The Psalms and Medieval English Literature: From the Conversion to the Reformation
Tamara Atkin and Francis Leneghan
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The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late...
The Story of Manu
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Manucaritramu, or The Story of Manu, by the early sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the...
Anna Karenina
Rosamund Bartlett and Leo Tolstoy
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At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent...
Poems
Francois Villon and David Georgi
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One of the most original and influential European poets of the Middle Ages, Francois Villon took his...
Sur's Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition
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Surdas has been regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of...
The Iliad
Homer Alexander and Caroline Alexander
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High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy...
The Influence Peddlers
Teresa Lavender Fagan and Hedi Kaddour
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The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour's award-winning novel of clashing cultures during...
The Pricke of Conscience: A Transcription of the Southern Rescension
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[This powerful 7316-line sermon in rhyming couplets dramatically rehearses God's power and man's...
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
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The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language...