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Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1 Cover
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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 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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The Iliad

by Homer

The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OA A Penguin Classic Dating …
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The Odyssey

by Homer

Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through …
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The Voyage of Argo

by Apollonius (Rhodius.)

The full account of Jason's voyage in the quest of the Golden Fleece.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh

 

N. K. Sandars's landmark translation of one of the first and greatest works of Western literature A Penguin Classic Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his …
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Figures of Earth

by James Branch Cabell

A tale of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and gallantry live on.
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The Silmarillion

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Published posthumously in 1977 to international acclaim, Tolkien's oldest tale of Middle-earth is now available in this revised and expanded volume. This new illustrated edition …
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Elric of Melnibone

by Michael Moorcock

Melniboné: No longer the mighty empire that once dominated the world but a waning kingdom, dependent on trade from the human nations which have begun …
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Melting Worlds

by Dorian Pratt

In the distant future, a drug smuggler disappears after meeting with a vicious dealer, and his lover, Jess Ichikawa, a young, emotionally unstable swordswoman, sets …
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Dune

by Frank Herbert

• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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