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The Norton Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRediscover Shakespeare -- the working man of the theater, not the universal bard -- and rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions, this contemporary Shakespeare enables readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh... -
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The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsAlternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside...Categorized as:
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Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, two of C. S. Lewis's most important and enduring works, are now available in this stunning, collectible hardcover edition. The most popular of C. S. Lewis's works of non-fiction, Mere Christianity, has sold several million copies worldwide... -
![The Ciphers of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler]()
The Ciphers of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFrom the moment she was banished by her father, the king, Princess Maia journeyed to seek sanctuary at Muirwood Abbey, the epicenter of magic and good in the land. Now safe for the first time since her cruel abandonment, Maia must foster uneasy friendships with other girls training to be Ciphers: women who learn to read and engrave tomes of ancient power, despite the laws forbidding them to do so... -
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![Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by John Donne, John Hayward]()
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by John Donne, John Hayward
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed...Categorized as:
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![A Draw of Kings by Patrick W. Carr]()
A Draw of Kings by Patrick W. Carr
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTheir journey to Merakh should have made Errol and his companions heroes of the realm. Instead, much is changed on their return. In the wake of the king’s death, Duke Weir is ruling the country–and his intentions are to marry Adora to bring an heir... -
![Making a Memory by Amelia C. Adams]()
Making a Memory by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaleb Baker, traveling photographer, is tired of being on the road and longs for a place to settle down and call home. He decides on Creede, Colorado, after hearing that the town is growing and could offer him a living, and he believes he'll be happy there. Ivy Ross, waitress at the Iron Skillet restaurant, has never seen herself as being anything special, and certainly no one worth noticing... -
![The Journey to the West, Volume 1 by Wu Cheng'en]()
The Journey to the West, Volume 1 by Wu Cheng'en
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFirst published in 1592, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature...Categorized as:
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Henry V by Kenneth Branagh
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsHenry V established Kenneth Branagh as one of the most gifted and versatile film artists of our time. Branagh wrote the screenplay, starred in, and directed the film to astounding critical and popular acclaim... -
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Judge by R.J. Larson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA Fantasy Saga Fueled by Adventure and FaithThe last thing Kien Lantec expects on his first day of military leave is to receive marching orders from his Creator, the Infinite. Orders that don't involve destroyer-racing or courting the love of his life, Ela. Adding to Kien's frustration, his Infinite-ordained duties have little to do with his skills as a military judge-in-training...Categorized as:
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![The Martyr of the Catacombs by James De Mille]()
The Martyr of the Catacombs by James De Mille
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Martyr of the Catacombs chronicles the treatment of early Christians by the Romans. A well written novel with a message... -
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David Ascendant (Chronicles of the Nephilim) by Brian Godawa
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix Giant Assassins.One Target: David of Judah.Goliath Was Only the First.Everyone knows the story of David. Or so you think. No one has heard it told this way before.In the days of Samuel the Seer, the Philistines are at the climax of a long war with Israel over the land of Canaan. There are still giants in Philistia left from Joshua's search and destroy mission of holy war generations earlier... -
![Eden: Biblical Fiction of the World's First Family by Brennan S. McPherson]()
Eden: Biblical Fiction of the World's First Family by Brennan S. McPherson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“You want me to tell of how I broke the world.”It’s the year 641 since humanity was formed in Eden, and after Eve passes away, Adam is the only man left on earth who remembers everything from the beginning of the world... -
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![The Peculiar Talent of Miss Elizabeth Bennet by Elizabeth Adams]()
The Peculiar Talent of Miss Elizabeth Bennet by Elizabeth Adams
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElizabeth Bennet is…special. She has been different since her sixteenth birthday, when she awoke after a dream of the future so vivid it could be nothing but a premonition.Now that she knows about her own future, is forewarned forearmed? Or will she make the same mistakes she always has? And more importantly, will Mr...Categorized as:
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![The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald]()
The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Romance of Photogen and Nycteris I. Watho THERE was once a witch who desired to know everything. But the wiser a witch is, the harder she knocks her head against the wall when she comes to it. Her name was Watho, and she had a wolf in her mind. She cared for nothing in itself — only for knowing it. She was not naturally cruel, but the wolf had made her cruel...Categorized as:
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![Iscariot by Tosca Lee]()
Iscariot by Tosca Lee
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Jesus, Judas believes he has found the One—a miracle-worker. The promised Messiah and future king of the Jews, destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized, Judas joins the Nazarene’s followers, ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life... -
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Byron's Poetry by Lord Byron
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt includes eighteen of his lyrics; Cantos One, Three, and excerpts from Canto Four of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; two verse romances, The Prisoner of Chillon and The Giaour, the latter newly receiving critical attention for its prophetically disjunctive structure; Manfred; The Vision of Judgment; and Don Juan, presented in long self-contained extracts--the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Sixteenth...Categorized as:
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![The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk]()
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas -- and a new unrest -- begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland...Categorized as:
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![Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett]()
Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Marley was dead to begin with . . ."These chillingly familiar words begin the classic Christmas tale of remorse and redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Now R. William Bennett rewinds the story and focuses the spotlight on Scrooge's miserly business partner, Jacob T. Marley, who was allowed to return as a ghost to warn Scrooge away from his ill-fated path... -
![The Complete English Poems by John Donne, A.J. Smith]()
The Complete English Poems by John Donne, A.J. Smith
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsYet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all...Categorized as:
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Leviathan by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal...Categorized as:
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![The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer]()
The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsGripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life...Categorized as:
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![A Yuletide Dream by Julie Cooper]()
A Yuletide Dream by Julie Cooper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe had endeavoured to disregard her, to forget her vivacity, her wit, her fine character; he sought to forget the fine, perfectly respectable birth of her father, in favour of remembering who would inherit her family properties upon that father’s death.AFTER THE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED DEATH of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Fitzwilliam Darcy resolves himself to marry his cousin, Miss Anne de Bourgh...Categorized as:
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![The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales by Patrick K. Ford]()
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales by Patrick K. Ford
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe title Mabinogi refers to the first four stories in this collection of tales from Welsh tradition. They are best known as the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi," and comprise the tales of Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math. The remaining stories also spring from the same tree, and together they form a collection that comprises the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle...Categorized as:
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![The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock]()
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 25 ratings'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology...Categorized as:
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![The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri]()
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsEdition bilingue... -
![The Metamorphoses: Ovid's Epic Poem, Translated by Great English Authors and Poets of the 18th Century by Ovid, Alexander Pope]()
The Metamorphoses: Ovid's Epic Poem, Translated by Great English Authors and Poets of the 18th Century by Ovid, Alexander Pope
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsOvid's legendary poem, comprising a total of two hundred and fifty ancient myths, is present in its entirety in this edition of The Metamorphoses. The Metamorphoses is commonly referred to simply as an 'epic poem', when in actuality the text encompasses a variety of genres in telling stories of magnificent breadth and scale... -
![The Shock of Night by Patrick W. Carr]()
The Shock of Night by Patrick W. Carr
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded on the streets of Bunard, Willet Dura is called to investigate. Yet the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers. As Willet begins to question the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue. Then he dies without another word... -
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Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil... -
![Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides]()
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use...Categorized as:
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The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsThis volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes...Categorized as:
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![Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton]()
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMilton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny...Categorized as:
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![Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Anthony Esolen]()
Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Anthony Esolen
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsOf the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well... -
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![Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti]()
Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAn important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion that seemed to emanate from the soul... -
![A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgård]()
A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgård
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch . . . This event is decisive in Bellori’s life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine...Categorized as:
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![The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner]()
The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'...Categorized as:
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![Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White]()
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPatrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men... -
![The Buddha and the Terrorist by Satish Kumar, Thomas Moore]()
The Buddha and the Terrorist by Satish Kumar, Thomas Moore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“A challenging story, beautifully written, most pertinent and relevant to our time.” —Deepak Chopra Not every book will change your life, but any book can. Not every discussion will make a difference, but a conversation can change the world... -
![Dialogues with the Devil by Taylor Caldwell]()
Dialogues with the Devil by Taylor Caldwell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnly a writer as eloquent as Taylor Caldwell can bring into such dramatic focus the mystery and terror of life. The revelations unfolded here illuminate the darkest corners of the human soul and strip us naked in the mirror of our own evil... -
![Flight To Eden by Douglas Hirt]()
Flight To Eden by Douglas Hirt
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsCivilization is advancing rapidly, the world population burgeoning. Satan has caused the fall of man and now wants complete control of earth. His chief problem is the annoying line of humans descended from Seth. They insist on honoring the Creator. His other problem is the prophecy spoken in the Garden of Eden... -
![Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn]()
Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsImagine Being Pulled Into the Hereafter. While You’re Still Alive. A disillusioned business executive whose life has hit a dead-end, Nick Seagrave has lost loved ones to tragedy and his family to neglect. Now, at a point of great crisis, he unbelievably and inexplicably finds himself transported to what appears to be another world... -
![Cuchulain of Muirthemne: the Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster by Lady Augusta Gregory]()
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: the Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster by Lady Augusta Gregory
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy Dear Friends, When I began to gather these stories together, it is of you I was thinking, that you would like to have them and to be reading them... -
![The Fiery Angel by Valery Bryusov]()
The Fiery Angel by Valery Bryusov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"In a vividly atmospheric recreation of the occult underworld of sixteenth century Germany, during an age of Inquisition, three souls meet: an innocent young man choosing between Love and Duty, a woman prone to visions and a Knight, who is either angel or demon." Religious experience and sexual hysteria meet in an apocalyptic vision of the spiritual crisis of modern life... -
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![Tainted by Morgan L. Busse]()
Tainted by Morgan L. Busse
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat Happens When Your Soul Dies?Kat Bloodmayne is one of the first women chosen to attend the Tower Academy of Sciences. But she carries a secret: she can twist the natural laws of science. She has no idea where this ability came from, only that every time she loses control and unleashes this power, it kills a part of her soul... -
![Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTales of Suspense - Edgar Allen Poe - Illustrations by: Steve Salerno - THE WORLD'S BEST READING - The Reader's Digest Association...Categorized as:
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Jesus by Walter Wangerin Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWalter Wangerin Jr. is know for his powerful storytelling in such books as The Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of God, and Paul: A Novel. Now he offers the most important story of the Christian faith---the life of Jesus presented in the author's inimitable style...Categorized as:
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![The Peony Pavilion by Xianzu Tang]()
The Peony Pavilion by Xianzu Tang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion is one of literature's most memorable love stories and a masterpiece of Ming drama. It's heroine, Bridal Du, is a cloistered girl who dreams of love, then dies pining for her dream suitor...Categorized as:
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![Green Darkness by Anya Seton]()
Green Darkness by Anya Seton
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil that stretches from 16th-century England to the present day. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well...Categorized as:
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![Theogony, Works and Days, Shield by Hesiod]()
Theogony, Works and Days, Shield by Hesiod
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization between the oral tradition and the introduction of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, address the divine and the mundane, respectively. The Theogony traces the origins of the Greek gods and recounts the events surrounding the crowning of Zeus as their king...
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