Literary Tradition

Explore the rich tapestry of literary tradition with our curated list of timeless books. Discover classic and influential works that shaped cultures, genres, and history.

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Ten Plays by Euripides

by Euripides

The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his …
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The Aeneid

by Virgil

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long …
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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 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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Gulliver's travels

 

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Goethe's Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the …
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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation …
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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Originally published in 1990 by North Point Press.
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Nineteen Eighty-four

by George Orwell

Eternal warfare is the price of bleak prosperity in this satire of totalitarian barbarism.
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The Lord of the Rings

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit …
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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

Donation trade.
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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated …