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The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu

The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall …
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Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of …
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The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1

by Lo Kuan-Chung

This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture …
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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The …
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The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

This edition provides the general information on Chaucer's life, language, and works that one needs for a first reading of Chaucer, and difficult words and …
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Utopia

by Thomas More

Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.
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Don Quixote

by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he …
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The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

‘Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine’ The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential …
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