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Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWe have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out onto the battlements and climbed down to where the cliffs dropped sharply to the sea... -
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool...Categorized as:
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Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCloser to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'...Categorized as:
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![Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Carol Wallace]()
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Carol Wallace
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs one of the bestselling stories of all time, Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has captivated and enthralled millions around the world--both in print and on the big screen. Now Lew's great-great-granddaughter has taken the old-fashioned prose of this classic novel and breathed new life into it for today's audience...Categorized as:
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![Tamas by Bhisham Sahni]()
Tamas by Bhisham Sahni
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClassic novel on partition, based on riots in 1947.The book is about the exodus of a Sikh and Hindu family to India, in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan, at the time of Partition of India in 1947. It shows a gruesome side of politics, and the compassionate side of humanity that survives any carnage...Categorized as:
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![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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Poetry by John Donne
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAbout the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully... -
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The Major Works by John Milton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPreviously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton's poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major prose works. Modernized spelling, extensive notes, and a helpful introduction make the text immediately accessible to the modern reader... -
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Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the world of faith to the world of show business, the theater of war to the theater of presidential politics, a novel traces one Jewish family's dramatic, often hilarious adventures on the way to the American dream. Reprint. NYT... -
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The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe sensational international bestseller: an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told beforeCorinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous...Categorized as:
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![Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte]()
Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet show why Milton takes his place beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Vergil. They ring with the unmistakable clarity of genius, with majesty of language, splendor and wealth of detail, and with the deep conviction of a powerful mind...Categorized as:
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![The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess]()
The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeginning with the crucifixion of Jesus and ending, seventy years later, with the destruction of Pompeii, the eminent novelist and critic limns a recreation of the beginnings of... -
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Jews Without Money by Michael Gold
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the author's only novel--is a passionate record of the times...Categorized as:
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![Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer]()
Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsContexts connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for Criticism six essays that address the poems central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T... -
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![Coplas De Jorge Manrique by Jorge Manrique]()
Coplas De Jorge Manrique by Jorge Manrique
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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![The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy]()
The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheodora: Actress, Empress, Whore, Stella Duffy's chronicle of this amazing woman's early years, delighted readers with its exquisite blend of historical detail and vivid storytelling. Now, The Purple Shroud chronicles Theodora at the height of her power, bringing the ancient world alive in another unforgettable, epic saga... -
![Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato]()
Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGiving voice to the hardworking Italian immigrants who worked, lived, and died in New York City shortly before the Great Depression, this American classic ranks with Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath a s one of the 20th century’s great works of social protest...Categorized as:
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![United States Bill of Rights by James Madison]()
United States Bill of Rights by James Madison
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution...Categorized as:
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![Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by Lettie B. Cowman]()
Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by Lettie B. Cowman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a barren wilderness, L. B. Cowman long ago discovered a fountain that sustained her, and she shared it with the world, Streams in the Desert ® -- her collection of prayerful meditations, Christian writings, and God's written promises--has become one of the most dearly loved, best-selling devotionals of all time since its first publication in 1925...Categorized as:
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![The Works of Epictetus, Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments by Epictetus]()
The Works of Epictetus, Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments by Epictetus
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
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Plato: Complete Works by Plato
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOutstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity...Categorized as:
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![How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson]()
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time... -
![The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation by Adele Berlin]()
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation by Adele Berlin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today...Categorized as:
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![Caesar and Christ by Will Durant]()
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVolume 3 of the monumental Story of Civilization, CAESAR AND CHRIST depicts the rise of Rome from a crossroads town to empire. The world's first republic, Rome spread its civilization over the Mediterranean and western European world. Its long, slow crumbling and final collapse plunged Europe into darkness and chaos.The Pax Romana broke some heads...Categorized as:
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![The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church by The Episcopal Church]()
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church by The Episcopal Church
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the standard Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church together with The Psalter or Psalms of David according to use in the Episcopal Church in the United States as authorized in 1979...Categorized as:
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![The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer]()
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsOne of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty...Categorized as:
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![A Marvelous Work and a Wonder by LeGrand Richards]()
A Marvelous Work and a Wonder by LeGrand Richards
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is a new release of the original 1950 edition... -
![The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha by Anonymous, NRSV Bible Translation Committee]()
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha by Anonymous, NRSV Bible Translation Committee
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Oxford NRSV Bible offers readers an unbeatable combination of quality construction, affordability, and the most accurate translation of the Bible available today. Churches and homes across America overwhelmingly choose the NRSV for its easy-to-understand translation and its sensitivity to inclusive language... -
![The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell]()
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failuresSowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years...
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