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Imaginary Lives
$16.95 Read more“The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the chaos.”–Marcel Schwob
Imaginary Lives remains
- Author: Schwob, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1939663342
- Language: English
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The Essential Tagore
$30.00 Read moreThe Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.
Marking the- Author: Tagore, Rabindranath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0674417046
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes
$13.95 Add to cartAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0192824090
- Language: English
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The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry
$18.00 Add to cartNational Book Award-winner Arthur Sze presents a one-of-a-kind anthology that vividly traces Chinese poetry from its centuries-old lyrical traditions up to the present day.In The Silk Dragon II, Nati… [more below]
- Author: Sze, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 155659707X
- Language: English
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Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others: The Complete Plays
$17.00 Read moreThe award-winning translators bring us the complete plays of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era.
Known as the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin was celebrated for his- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593467566
- Language: English
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
$7.95 Add to cartLeo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man’s intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0451532171
- Language: English
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
$13.95 Add to cartDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld’s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: La Rochefoucauld, François de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540004
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Collection of Nordic Animal Tales
$22.95 Add to cartTravel to the snowy forests of Lapland in this warm and witty storybook with beautiful illustrations – perfect for sharing and reading aloud.
Classic characters of Nordic folklore – cunning Fox, gulli
- Author: Surojegin, Pirkko-Liisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1782507442
- Language: English
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Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People
$20.00 Add to cartThe great epic poem of Northern Europe, born deep in the heart of ancient Karelian forests
Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finland–the land of heroes–Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of- Author: Lonnrot, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0241403065
- Language: English
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
$14.95 Add to cartSor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her “the Tenth Muse” and “the Phoe
- Author: de la Cruz, Juana In?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351882
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic
$16.00 Add to cartA poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace
“Sophus Helle’s new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, e- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268092
- Language: English
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Rumi’s Little Book of the Heart
$14.95 Add to cartIn this slender volume, Rumi explores the joy of friendship and the agony of loss. These poetic meditations on the most profound of human relationships are like crystals: they sparkle with the many hu
- Author: Mafi, Maryam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1571747427
- Language: English
