 | The Iliad
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $10.99 Translator Rodney Merrill strikes an amazing balance between literalism and meaning.
Better than Lattimore and more classical than Lombardo, Merrill's Homer is truly extraordinary!
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 | The Odyssey
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $7.50 Merrill's translation of the Odyssey!
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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 While not definitive in a scholarly sense, it remarins a great version of the Ramayana that can be enjoyed for years!
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 | The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Editions)
Buy new: $10.63 / Used from: $2.94 The Norton Critical Edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh. A tremendous work by an unknown author written approximately in the 7th century BCE.
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 | The Book of Job by Raymond P. Schiendlin
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.77 A scholarly translation and commentary on the Book of Job. A tremendous read!
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 | The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, Vol 1 by Ramesh Menon
Buy new: $31.45 / Used from: $38.44 Part one of the greatest Indian Epic!
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 | The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, Vol 2 by Ramesh Menon
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $32.25 Part two of the above.
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 | Euripides I: Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 3) by Euripides
Buy new: $7.10 / Used from: $0.20 The Grene and Lattimore edition of Medea by Euripides.
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 | Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Sophocles
Buy new: $7.10 / Used from: $0.32 The second edition of the Grene and Lattimore edition of Oedipus the King by Sophocles.
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 | The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics) by Kalidasa
Buy used from: $4.96 A wonderful Indian drama.
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 | Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.56 A new translation by Frederick Ahl.
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 | Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin by Ovid
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.21 The Charles Martin translation of the Metamorphoses by Ovid.
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 | The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Murasaki Shikibu
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $9.09 An awesome work of Japanese literature.
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 | Njal's Saga (Classics) by Magnus Magnusson
Buy used from: $0.25 The Magnus Magnusson translation. It is older, but it is still the best.
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 | The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard), Books I and II by Sheikh Muslihu-d-Din Sa'adi of Shiraz
One of the great Persian poets.
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 | The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 1) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $8.97 You have heard or perhaps even read some Rumi, the mystical poet of Sufism.
This is the first part of his masterpiece.
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 | The Masnavi: Book Two (Oxford World's Classics) by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $3.17 Part two of Rumi.
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 | The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $10.79 |
 | The Decameron: A New Translation (Norton Critical Editions) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Buy new: $14.62 / Used from: $2.19 The Decameron by Boccaccio. The Norton Critical Edition.
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 | The Canterbury Tales (Norton Critical Editions) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $13.81 / Used from: $4.75 The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. The Norton Critical Edition.
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 | Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $3.57 |
 | The Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel Eyquem Montaigne
Buy new: $31.54 / Used from: $7.74 A wonderful edition of the essays by Montaigne.
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 | Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $10.63 / Used from: $0.94 The Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet.
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 | Othello (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.80 The NCE of Othello.
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 | King Lear (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $10.12 / Used from: $6.42 The NCE of King Lear.
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 | Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.44 The magnificant translation by Edith Grossman of this the greatest of all works of literature.
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