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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

<b>The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran??"now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition</b><br> <b>...

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Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation

<p><b>A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century</b></p><p>In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the...

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Saviour of the Nation: An Epic Poem of Winston Churchill's Finest Hour

This engaging poem depicts Winston Churchill as a hero, in traditional epic style and echoes the works of Homer and Virgil. The metre adds an emotional intensity to the events of 20th century history...

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Hellfires Shake the Blues

<p>Ranging from his ode to the much-maligned urban pigeon (Winged Rats) to a haunting Holocaust scenario with a repeated chorus gradually diminishing like a decimated people, Peter...

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No Words...Just News

<p>By mixing hardcore realities with the verities of the heart, Peter Jacob Streitz broadcasts a spiritual news that envisions the social condition - as mothers consisting of every chemical in...

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The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi: With Linked Table of Contents

My first acquaintance with the Gita began in 1888-89 with the verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold known as the Song Celestial. On reading it, I felt a keen desire to read a Gujarati translation. And...

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Bhagavad Gita: Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the...

This famous and marvellous Sanskrit poem occurs as an episode of the Mahabharata, in the sixth-or "Bhishma"-Parva of the great Hindu epic. It enjoys immense popularity and authority in India, where it...

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The Trench

A new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One. As the horror threatens to engulf him, he discovers another world beneath the mud and death....

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Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts

<I>Alms for Oblivion</I> is a 400-line quest poem, seeking the roots of inspiration, in which the protagonist is split in half&#151;the "he" represents the rational, scientific mind;...

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Derelict Air: From Collected Out

More than 400 pages of Edward Dorn's previously uncollected poetry gleaned from ephemera, correspondence, and notebooks housed at numerous archives in the United States and the UK are gathered here in...

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Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts

<I>Alms for Oblivion</I> is a 400-line quest poem, seeking the roots of inspiration, in which the protagonist is split in half&#151;the "he" represents the rational, scientific mind;...

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The Odyssey

Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn. Having been away for twenty years,...

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Beowulf: With Linked Table of Contents

Before King Arthur there was Beowulf, a young lord of great renown. When Beowulf hears that the monster Grendel is terrorizing a neighbor state, he and his men travel there to rid the land of this...

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The Others

Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling.

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She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

<span style="font-family: 'Times';font-size: 14px;">The groundbreaking seminal collection by the author of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times';font-size:...

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The Iliad of Homer

This book contains Alexander Pope's seminal interpretation of the original Homeric poem, published serially from 1715 to 1720. Hailed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could...

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Jerusalem Deleted

This is the second poem to appear from among a small set entitled <I>The Calendar</I>. Each book relates to the others as the points, not in a line, but of a star: none need be considered...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Vol III.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high...

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Thoughts & Tales of a Tow Boater

This is the first poetry book published by R.W. Daniel about Towboating off British Columbia's West Coast. R.W. Daniel has worked in the Towboat Industry for the past thirty years. The poems cover a...

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Beowulf: The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats.

Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem from the Old English canon originating between 521 AD and 1026 AD. Authorship is unknown thus attributed in this edition to “an unknown Anglo Saxon poet.”...

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