Category: Special, Classic & Critical Editions

Indian Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Everyman's Library : January 2005

Seller ID: 795931

ISBN-13: 9781400042258

According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion "there is no textbook at all, and no order." Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora. Indian Love Poems features works from the classical languages of Sanskrit and Tamil and such later languages as Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English. Emerging from...
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Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada (Dover Thrift Editions)

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : March 2000

Seller ID: 590528

ISBN-13: 9780486411200

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Few of the sacred texts of the world's great religions present their wisdom with the clear simplicity of the verses of the Buddhist Dhammapada, or Path to Virtue. Its direct style, clarity, and beauty place it at the forefront of Buddhist sacred literature, and its noble intent raises it to the highest level of humanity's spiritual guides. Easily accessible to any reader, the Dhammapada offers a wealth of wisdom for the novice, as well as the most ardent and experienced of spiritual seekers.Gathered by Buddhist masters into related groups -- "On Earnestness," "Flowers," "The Fool," "The Wise M...
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Letters of John and Abigail Adams

By: Adams, John/Adams, Abagail

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 368383

ISBN-13: 9780142437117

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The correspondence of a Founding Father and his brilliant wifeThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams provides an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; the letters also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key moments in American history - the Continental Congress, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and John Adams's diplomatic missions to Europe - the ...
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

By: Aeschylus,

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : February 1984

Seller ID: 707478

ISBN-13: 9780140443332

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father...
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

By: Aeschylus,

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : February 1984

Seller ID: 775827

ISBN-13: 9780140443332

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father...
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On Painting

By: Alberti, Leon Battista

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : July 2013

Seller ID: 810122

ISBN-13: 9780140433319

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance ...
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Inferno (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

By: Alighieri, Dante

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : August 2005

Seller ID: 806446

ISBN-13: 9780486442884

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here at last that much suffering reader will find Dante's greatness manifest, and not his greatness only, but his grace, his simplicity, and his affection. -- William Dean Howells, The NationAs a crown to his literary life, Longfellow combines his exquisite scholarship and his poetic skill and experience in the translation of one of the great poems of the world. -- Harper's MonthlyEnter the unforgettable world of The Inferno and travel with a pair of poets through nightmare landscapes of eternal damnation to the very core of Hell. The first of the three major canticles in La divina commedia (T...
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Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946

By: Ambrose, Stephen (Preface)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : January 2011

Seller ID: 696502

ISBN-13: 9781931082051

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Drawn from wartime newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and books, Reporting World War II captures the unfolding drama through the work of more than 50 writers, the best of a remarkable generation of reporters. Here are William L. Shirer and Howard K. Smith inside Nazi Germany; A J. Liebling on the fall of France and the Tunisian campaign; Edward R. Murrow on the London Blitz and Buchenwald; Ernie Pyle on the war in the foxholes. Margaret Bourke-White flies over the lines in Italy; Robert Sherrod and Tom Lea record the horrors of the Pacific war; Janet Flanner and Martha Gellhorn...
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101 Great American Poems

By: American Poetry & Literacy Pro

Price: $1.00

Publisher: : May 2014

Seller ID: 800526

ISBN-13: 9780486401584

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe's "The Raven," Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Songs for the Open Road

By: American Poetry & Literacy Project

Price: $1.00

Publisher: : December 2012

Seller ID: 548040

ISBN-13: 9780486406466

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure.You'll find more than 90 poems by 50 American and British masters (mainly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), including Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, Paul Laurenc...
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Lucky Jim

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : June 1992

Seller ID: 724378

ISBN-13: 9780140186307

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In his send-up of the academic world, the author poked fun at the British way of life, and gave post-war fiction a new and enduring figure to laugh at.
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The Mystery-Religions

By: Angus, S.

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : November 2011

Seller ID: 808118

ISBN-13: 9780486231242

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What is the strange fascination of the Mystery-Religions for the ancient world and today, some 2,000 years later, for moderns? Why are these colorful ancient cults so little known, all information about them suppressed or distorted by centuries of official religion in Europe? What did these ancient beliefs have that exacted the respect of Socrates, Plato, Virgil, Apuleius, and other great men of the classical age? Was the religion that stamped them out, Christianity, itself originally a Mystery-Religion, with secret teachings that only initiates could comprehend and psychological techniques no...
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The Dhammapada (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous,

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics : November 2010

Seller ID: 678220

ISBN-13: 9780140449419

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the best-known and best-loved works of Buddhist literature, the Dhammapada forms part of the oldest surviving body of Buddhist writings, and is traditionally regarded as the authentic teachings of the Buddha himself, spoken by him in his lifetime, and memorized and handed on by his followers after his death. A collection of simple verses gathered in themes such as 'awareness', 'fools' and 'old age', the Dhammapada is accessible, instructional and mind-clearing, with lessons in each verse to give ethical advice and to remind the listener of the transience of life. For more than seventy y...
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Promised Land

By: Antin, Mary

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 405285

ISBN-13: 9780143106777

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For the centennial of its first publication: a new edition of a seminal work on the American immigrant experienceWeaving introspection with political commentary, biography with history, The Promised Land, first published in 1912, brings to life the transformation of an Eastern European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development that took place in her] own soul and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling of division--between Russia and Am...
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By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: $1.00

Publisher: : September 2009

Seller ID: 615280

ISBN-13: 9780486280370

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that continue to rank him among the most loved and admired of Victorian poets. In addition to the title poem, it includes such masterpieces as "The Scholar Gipsy," "Thyrsis," "The Forsaken Merman," "Memorial Verses," and "Rugby Chapel."Although as a literary critic, Arnold championed the serene poise and impersonal grandeur of the classics, his own poems were often more romantic than classical in nature -- intimate, personal, sentimental, even nostalgi...
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Category: Special, Classic & Critical Editions