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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Riverside Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer · 1,327 pages
This edition provides the general information on Chaucer's life, language, and works that one needs for a first reading of Chaucer, and difficult words and constructions are glossed on the pages. The Appendix contains the materials, including the extensive notes and glossary, for a more thorough understanding of Chaucer's works.
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
Dante Alighieri · 258 pages
The Riverside Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans · 1,914 pages
The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, B
The Lays of Beleriand
J.R.R. Tolkien · 393 pages
This is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published. Volumes 1 and 2 were the Book of Lost Tales, Part One and The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two. Together, these volumes encompass an extraordinarily extensive body of material ornamenting and buttressing
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile
Allen Ginsberg, Barry Miles · 208 pages
Howl
Allen Ginsberg · 194 pages
This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter · 518 pages
One of Newsweek’s Best Books of the Year and winner of the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement. A cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. This timeless poetry is beautifully wrought by a scholar whose translation of the Five Books of Moses was hailed as a “godsend” by Seamus Heaney and a “masterpi
Dickinson: Poems
Emily Dickinson · 395 pages
In selecting these poems for commentary the author chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, from her first person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath. Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often ant
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation
Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper · 537 pages
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft · 852 pages
At the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now, well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction. Editor Leslie S. Klinger charts the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and re
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D: The Romantic Period
Deidre Shauna Lynch · 1,172 pages
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E: The Victorian Age
Catherine Robson · 2,656 pages
"The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with new complete major works, new contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. New video modules help introduce students to literature in multiple exciting ways. These innovations make the Norton an even better teaching tool for instructor
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
The Aeneid
Virgil
Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, searches for a new homeland after the fall of Troy. His journey becomes years of wandering. His tales of wars fought, cities built and burned, new kings, and struggling alliances spread the histories of heroes and their willingness to believe in their own resources and the miraculous help of the gods.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images
The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People
Elias Lonnrot · 408 pages
A translation of the national folk epic of Finland which reflects ancient Finnish life.
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser · 406 pages
The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. Each book of the poem recounts the quest of a knight to achieve a virtue: the Red Crosse Knight of Holinesse, who must slay a dragon and free himself from the witch
Piers the Ploughman
William Langland · 320 pages
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot · 92 pages
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham · 332 pages
This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made *The Intelligent Investor* the s