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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)

By: Anonymous

Price: $2.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: April 1967

Seller ID: 375695

ISBN: 0393097544

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Beowulf: A Student Edition

By: Anonymous

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Clarendon Press: December 1994

Seller ID: 376437

ISBN: 0198710445

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

This fully annotated edition makes the poem Beowulf more accessible in its original langauge, while at the same time providing the materials necessary for its detailed study by those new to Old English. An introduction considers the origins and transmission of the poem, and provides a survey of its narrative constituents and style. The text of the Finnsburh Fragment is also included because of its special relevance to Beowulf .
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

By: Anonymous

Price: $8.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2001

Seller ID: 376640

ISBN: 0393320979

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, 'Beowulf' is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 2003

Seller ID: 373541

ISBN: 0140449191

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the Epic of Gilgamesh is, above...
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Klaeber's Beowulf, Fourth Edition

By: Anonymous

Price: $14.95

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division: April 2008

Seller ID: 376422

ISBN: 0802095674

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained largely unaltered since 1936. The fourth edition has been prepared with the aim of updating the scholarship while preserving the aspects of Klaeber's work that have made it useful to students of literature, linguists, historians, folklorists, manuscript specialists,...
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The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 2010

Seller ID: 376457

ISBN: 0199238545

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs, a priceless treasure guarded by dwarves and giants, an Amazonian queen, fortune-telling water-sprites, and a cloak of invisibility. Driven by the conflict between Kriemhilt, the innocent maiden turned she-devil, and her antagonist, the stoic, indomitable Hagen, the story is one of love, jealousy, murder, and revenge, ending in slaughter on a horrific scale. Since its rediscovery in ...
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The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 1990

Seller ID: 376547

ISBN: 0140445323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and paganism, whi...
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The Poem of the Cid: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) (Spanish Edition)

By: Anonymous

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1985

Seller ID: 376548

ISBN: 0140444467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo D az de Vivar - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction and historical fact, the tale seethes with the restless, adventurous spirit of Castille, telling of the Cid's unjust banishment from the court of King Alfonso, his victorious campaigns in Valencia, and the crowning of his daughters as queens of Aragon and Navarre - the high point of his career as a warmonger. An epic that sings of universal human values,...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

By: Anonymous

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: February 2000

Seller ID: 380185

ISBN: 0374111197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.

Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and u...
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The Arabian Nights (Barnes & Noble Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics: February 2007

Seller ID: 380266

ISBN: 1593082819

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Arabian Nights is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics

New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
Biographies of the authors
Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
Footnotes and endnotes
Selective discussions of ...
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The Death of King Arthur (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous,

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1971

Seller ID: 318134

ISBN: 0140442553

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity with his beloved comrade-at-arms Sir Lancelot profoundly distress the trusting King, leaving him no match for the machinations of the treacherous Sir Mordred. The human tragedy of The Death of King Arthur so impressed...
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The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous,

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: June 2015

Seller ID: 376552

ISBN: 0140424148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A comprehensive and accessible volume of some of the best-loved medieval literature in its original Middle English

This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. Also gathered here are the famous medieval texts Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience, complete with new scholarly apparatus to aid firsttime readers and experts alike.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the E...
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THE GREAT IDEAS PROGRAM: A General Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education [10 Volume set]

By: Anthology

Price: $42.95

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica: January 1959

Seller ID: 279701

ISBN: B000XY2OSY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

American Men of Letters Sherwood Anderson- Theodore Dreiser- Henry James-Herman

By: Anthology

Price: $24.95

Publisher: William Sloane Associates: January 1951

Seller ID: 316914

ISBN: B002J83350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

American Short Stories of the 19th Century (Everyman Paperbacks)

By: Anthology

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult: February 1972

Seller ID: 317283

ISBN: 046001840X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Four Great American Classics

By: Anthology

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam Classics: December 1992

Seller ID: 333171

ISBN: 0553213628

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.

The Scarlet Letter vividly records America's moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society's preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck's unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America's for...
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Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Penguin Classics)

By: Anthology

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: November 1998

Seller ID: 376545

ISBN: 0140436715

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892) and range in literary style from fact-based narrations to largely fictional, spellbinding adventure stories. The women are variously victimized, triumphant, or, in the case of Mary Jemison, permantently transculturated. This collection includes well known pieces such as Mary Rowlandson's "A True History" (1682), Cotton Mather's version of Hannah...
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Four Romances of England : King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston (TEAMS Middle English Texts Kalamazoo)

By: Anthology

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications: April 1999

Seller ID: 377021

ISBN: 1580440177

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances all deal with the Matter of Britain-that is, they celebrate action and adventure tales taking place in England. Featuring all the hallmarks of a good romance, these works include disinherited nobles, thrilling battles, love stories, dragons, and all sorts of marvels and adventures. Spanning the mid thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, the...
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)

By: Arendt, Hannah

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: September 2006

Seller ID: 373446

ISBN: 0143039881

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influ...
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Orlando Furioso, Part Two (Penguin Classics)

By: Ariosto, Ludovico

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: December 1977

Seller ID: 333651

ISBN: 014044310X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to...
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Category: Classics