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Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation
$25.00 Read moreOriginating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh?tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, spawned by the gods to rein in the king’
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496689
- Language: English
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The World After Rain: Anne’s Poem
$16.95 Add to cartA Carol Shields Prize winner for her collection of fictions Code Noir, Canisia Lubrin now brings readers a long-form poetic tribute to her mother, praised by Dionne Brand as “incandescent”
In this stu- Author: Lubrin, Canisia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1593768192
- Language: English
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Galahad and the Grail (Merlin’s Isle: An Arthuriad, 1
$34.99 Read more“An astonishing achievement. . .” — Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi
“Vigorous and fresh. . . whets the appetite for much more.” — Rowan Williams, former Archbish… [more below]
- Series: Merlin’s Isle #1
- Author: Guite, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1951872703
- Language: English
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Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People: The Collected Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWelcome to Judevine.
In the 1970s, as a recent arrival to Wolcott, Vermont, writer David Budbill was inspired by his own working-class background to shine a light on the lives of his new neighbors who
- Author: Budbill, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1578691990
- Language: English
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Dante’s the Divine Comedy – Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso: Illustrated by Gustave Dor?
$29.99 Read moreThis luxurious hardback edition presents Dante’s celebrated work, The Divine Comedy, with opulent gold cover embossing, striking illustrated page edges and 135 classic illustrations by Gustave Dor?.
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- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1398848948
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$38.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its represe- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 525505997
- Language: English
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The Purgatorio
$8.95 Add to cartIn The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dante’s canticl… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531426
- Language: English
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
$31.00 Add to cartThe 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
A Penguin Classic
Dick Davis–“our pre-emi… [more below]- Author: Ferdowsi, Abolqasem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108328
- Language: English
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
$18.99 Add to cartMany years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n. In the Lay of the V?lsungs is told the ancestry of… [more below]
- Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0547394578
- Language: English
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Epic Annette: A Heroine’s Tale
$18.99 Read moreCould you put your beliefs before your family?
Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nin- Author: Weber, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1911648454
- Language: English
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Purgatory
$17.00 Read moreA new translation by Anthony Esolen
Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic po
Illustrations by Gustave Dor- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971256
- Language: English
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The Island
$16.00 Add to cartWritten over the course of two summerWritten over the course of two summers following the poet’s 33rd birthday, The Island is a Miltonesque hyperpop haiku of: s following the poet’s 33rd birthday, The
- Author: D’Artois, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1737924269
- Language: English
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Find Your Own Way Home
$19.95 Add to cartFind Your Own Way Home won the Changing Light Novel-in-Verse Prize. It revolves around about Alison, a missing teenage girl-and about what is missing in the stories we tell, the lacunae in every narra
- Author: George, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1604893710
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$62.99 Add to cartOvid’s epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present day, when wr… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 597
- Publish Date: October 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393058107
- Language: English
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The Metamorphoses
$7.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid’s day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his own … [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531450
- Language: English
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Iliad – Imperium Press
$25.95 Add to cartSet in the final days of the Trojan War, Homer’s poem recounts a formative moment in not only Greek culture, but in that of the West as a whole. W.C. Bryant’s verse translation has been acclaimed for
- Series: Western Canon
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: September 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0648690504
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh Retold
$20.99 Add to cartJenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1784106143
- Language: English
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Poetic Edda – Imperium Press (Western Canon)
$50.00 Add to cartThe Poetic Edda is our main source for the myths of the Norse gods and heroes. Written down in medieval Iceland, this “original storehouse of Germanic mythology” collects 35 narrative poems recounting
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 942
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1922602639
- Language: English
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Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
$19.95 Add to cartThe first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history.
This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Kh- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Bougdaeva, Saglar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0520344723
- Language: English
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The Sea of Separation: A Translation from the Ramayana of Tulsidas
$19.95 Read more“This perceptive and accessible edition brings Tulsidas’s version [of the Ramayana], the most widely read across Northern India, to English-speaking audiences, giving readers a fresh glimpse into the
- Series: Murty Classical Library of India
- Author: Tulsidas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295668
- Language: English
