 | Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian classics) by Aristophanes
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.61 "There is a god, and his name is Aristophanes!" (Heinrich Heine)
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 | The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic by Ramesh Menon
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $8.99 |
 | The Golden Ass: Or, a Book of Changes by Apuleius
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $8.74 Apuleius' holy satire wanders through the splendors and miseries of this world while receiving glimmerings of other worlds.
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 | The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $1.85 A fresh wonder on every page
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 | The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Buy used from: $2.12 Rumi's Masnavi mixes holiness and humor in his traversal of folk legend
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 | The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $12.35 / Used from: $4.24 Dante's journey through the universe illuminates the passion, pain, and joy which animates everything we experience.
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 | Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.99 A miracle of comic irony and sharp characterization
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 | Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $3.57 Gigantic humor with Breughel-esque inventiveness
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 | The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $128.25 / Used from: $73.72 Comedy that reverberates endlessly: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, etc...
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 | Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $5.77 Tragic comedy of imagination and the nature of reality
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 | Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng-en
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.98 Wondrous romp across a visionary China
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 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) by Laurence Sterne
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.74 Wild tangent of a tale
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 | Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.27 Insanely original, and crammed with a desperate vitality
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 | The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake by William Blake
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $9.99 Apocalyptic comedy. Blake was a master of satire rather like Isaiah.
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 | Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron
Buy used from: $0.35 Grand feast of entertainment
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 | Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition by Lewis Carroll
Buy used from: $37.36 The Hunting of the Snark is the funnest poem ever written, and Through the Looking-Glass is my favorite book!
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 | Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $2.19 Jolly adventures with some dark undertones
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 | Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $5.50 The Grand Master of Puns: Joyce's rollicking history of the world
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 | The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $22.25 Merill's bizarre Dantesque journey through the afterlife, etc.
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