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The Poems of Hafez by Hafez, Shahriar Zangeneh
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Art of the Return of the King by Gary Russell
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The Collected Poems Of Alvaro De Campos: 1928 1935: V. 2 by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos
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Art of the Two Towers by Gary Russell
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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime... -
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Three Poems: Host and Guest / Aluda Ketelauri / The Snake-Eater by Vazha-Pshavela
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVazha Pshavela (1861-1915) is considered one of the great poets in the fifteen-centuried Georgian literature. The three poems represented in the book are the most distinguished works of the poet... -
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Sadi: Gulistan or Flower-Garden by Saadi, James Ross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work... -
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Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore
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Le Jardin de Gethsémani : roman by Ivan Bahrianyi
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WolfeAx: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMagnus de Wolfe, who takes after his Viking forefathers, has his story told in a unique and powerful way. The story of a love nearly lost… but for an angel. Paternal grandson of England's greatest knight, son of the man known as Nighthawk, and grandson on his mother's side of a Norse king, Magnus de Wolfe has the blood of elite and royal warriors flowing through his veins... -
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পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা by Manik Bandopadhyay, Zakir Talukder
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আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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The Children of Hurin/The Silmarillion/The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA unique set of never-before-collected deluxe editions in original publishers slipcase.Limited to 500 pieces only.Since the 50th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings in 2004, HarperCollins has published a series of new deluxe editions of the principal Tolkien works... -
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Um Mundo Sem Fim, Volume I by Ken Follett
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsÀ semelhança de Os Pilares da Terra Ken Follett volta ao registo do romance histórico, numa obra dividida em duas partes graças às quase mil páginas que a compõem. A Presença publica agora o primeiro volume de Um Mundo Sem Fim, que se prevê repetir o sucesso de Os Pilares da Terra... -
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Os Pilares da Terra - Volume I by Ken Follett, Alice Rocha
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKen Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance... -
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Impostures by Al-Hariri, Abdelfattah Kilito
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifty rogue's tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature...Categorized as:
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Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe... -
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A'mak-i Hayal by Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"A'mâk-ı Hayâl, yeni harflerle ve sadeleştirilmiş olarak birçok kez basıldığı halde, ciddi bir değerlendirmeye neden konu olamamıştır? Bu sorunun yanıtı, yine yayınların kendisindedir. Bu yayınlar, ne yazık ki, eseri ciddi bir değerlendirme konusu kılabilecek bir titizlik ve özenden yoksundur... -
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The Case of Cem by Вера Мутафчиева, Vera Mutafchieva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem , presented as a series of depositions by historical figures before a court, tells a straightforward tale: Upon the death of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1481, his eldest son Bayezid takes the throne...Categorized as:
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Anglo-Saxon Poetry by S.A.J. Bradley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProse translations of most of the poetry surviving in the four major codices and other manuscripts in a style accessible to a modern audience and yet close to Old English... -
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Rhiannon by Roberta Gellis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMedieval battles test the love of the court's most elusive nobleman and a Welsh princess--Rhiannon--who is untamed and beholden to none, as they encounter betrayals and wars. Reprint... -
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Winter Song by Roberta Gellis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlys of Marlowe thought that Raymond d’Aix was a penniless knight who had come to her father’s keep seeking a livelihood. He was brave and courteous, intelligent and hardworking, and he thought she was a miracle among womankind. What was irresistible was that he did not value her for her beauty, for which many other men admired her, but for her common sense and practicality... -
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Layla and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "religion of the heart," and the story is an allegory of the soul's longing for God... -
![The Strife of Love in a Dream, being the Elizabethan version of the first book of the Hypnerotomachia by Francesco Colonna]()
The Strife of Love in a Dream, being the Elizabethan version of the first book of the Hypnerotomachia by Francesco Colonna
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsINTRODUCTION.EIGHT or nine years ago I chanced to go into the shop of Mr. Toovey, in Piccadilly, and began turning over the cheaper and less considered of his books. Among them I found " Hypnerotomachia. The strife of Loue in a Dreame. At London, Printed for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, in S. Paules Churchyard, at Cheape-gate, 1592... -
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Sybelle by Roberta Gellis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was a headstrong beauty caught in the flood tides of passion and war. Tempestuous, amber-eyed hairess to the magnificent Roselynde dynasty, Sybelle knew that her time had come to choose a husband. But she was ruler of her own lands and would bow to no man's will - until she met a rugged, handsome rebel leading a daring revolt against the king... -
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The Concubine by Norah Lofts
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of court. The King first noticed her when she was 16 - and with imperial greed he smashed her youthful love-affair with Harry Percy and began the process of royal seduction. But this was no ordinary woman, no maid-in-waiting to be possessed... -
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The Poetry of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after." --Harold BloomIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetnessthat came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties... -
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The Canterbury Tales by Geraldine McCaughrean, Geoffrey Chaucer
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city--all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury. To pass the long journey they told each other stories of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with pants on fire, of love and death and the devil... -
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Castile for Isabella by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCastile for Isabella covers the early life of the most significant of all Spanish monarchs: Isabella of Castile. Isabella is seen as a young girl,within a few steps of the throne; first in the care of an ambitious but unbalanced mother; later in the licentious court of her half-brother HenryIV; and at length ascending the throne, Ferdinand beside her... -
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![Canzoniere: Selected Poems by Francesco Petrarca, Anthony Mortimer]()
Canzoniere: Selected Poems by Francesco Petrarca, Anthony Mortimer
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348... -
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At Agincourt by G.A. Henty
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient books... -
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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe...Categorized as:
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The Italian Woman by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Catherine de' Medici was forced to marry Henry of Orleans, her's was not the only heart broken. Jeanne of Navarre once dreamed of marrying this same prince, but like Catherine, she must bend to the will of King Francis's political needs... -
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Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat, أليفة رفعت
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the vil on what it means to be a women living within a traditional Muslim society." So states the translator's foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author's best short stories. Rifaat (1930-1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad... -
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The Awakening of the Soul by Ibn Tufail, Paul Bronnle
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe object of the editors of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be the ambassadors of good-will and understanding between East and West, the old world of Thought, and the new of Action... -
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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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Poems from the Spanish of Fra Luis Ponce de Leon by Luis de León, Silvio Baldessari
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience... -
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The Dream of the Rood: An Old English Poem Attributed to Cynewulf by Albert Stanburrough Cook
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 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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The Princess by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Princess is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature... -
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The Romance of Alexander the Great by Pseudocallisthenes by Albert M. Wolohojian
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSince his death in the third century BC, each age has woven its own legends around the figure of Alexander the Great.If the Hebrew tradition saw him as a preacher and prophet, to the Persians he was alternately a true king and an arch-Satan, while in modern Greece he is revered more as a wise man than as a conqueror. All these very disparate traditions share roots in The Greek Alexander Romance...Categorized as:
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Sir Orfeo by Unknown, Alan J. Bliss
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
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The Wedding of Zein and Other Sudanese Stories by Tayeb Salih, الطيب صالح
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis book contains three Sudanese stories by Denys Johnson-Davies... -
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Amadis De Gaula (Odres Nuevos) by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Angel Rosenblat
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
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Aucassin et nicolette by Alexandre Micha, Anonymous
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAucassin et Nicolette is a medieval French chantefable, or combination of prose and verse (literally, a "sung story"), similar to a prosimetrum. It is the only known chantefable from what was once a very popular literary tradition, and it is from this work the term chantefable was coined in its concluding "No cantefable prent fin" ("Our chantefable is drawing to a close")... -
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