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The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) 11 reviews
Virgil
Penguin Classics, 1956
"Fated to be an Exile..."
+ The Tragedy of Dido
+ What beautiful words these are!
+ The classic Roman epic, better than I expected
+ I sing of a great story
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Lady into Fox (Collins Library) 4 reviews
David Garnett
McSweeney's, 2004
Lovely and enchanting...
+ Truly unique and enthusiastically recommended
Lady Into Fox, by David Garnett, harkens back to the early Twentieth Century when book covers (one of the best things about this book) were deliciously simple and the real treat was contained in the pagese between them. Also enchanting are the wood engravings that illustrate the book. Originally ...
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe73 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe
Doubleday, 1966
PURE READING PLEASURE NOT TO BE MISSED OR NOT TO BE REVISITED
+ Great book
+ Poe
+ Awesome
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Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) 26 reviews
Jonathan Swift
Penguin Classics, 2003
WOW (sorry, but I don't know what to say)
+ The seminal satire
+ Vivid imagery, stunning wit, and multi-layered meaning make this profound piece of literature I've ever read
+ Profound, if you allow it...
+ Gulliver's Travel is the greatest satire in the English language
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The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)24 reviews
Anonymous
Penguin Classics, 2003
An amazing book, an eye-opener.
+ The Classic of Religious Deception
+ A must have spiritual guide!
+ Self-Realization
+ "I am become Death, Shatterer of worlds"
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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)6 reviews
William Blake
Penguin Classics, 1978
Sui Generis
+ the heights and depths of human experience
+ Masterful
+ Unparalleled visionary power
+ What immortal hand or eye ?
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Book of Good Love (Everyman's Library (Paper))3 reviews
Juan Ruiz
Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., 1999
The Spanish Chauser
+ Good service
+ Book of Good Love, Kent Kane translation
This is the translation of a Spanish book by an archpriest. It was then consisdered by many to be vulgar, but Elisha Kane, the translator of this volume found it to be most interesting and, with his brillant translation, shows the reader how so. It is full of wit and makes a wide use of play on ...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)64 reviews
Anonymous
Penguin Classics, 2003
Great find!
+ Enjoyable
+ And every man alone must rage against his fate
I need this book for my freshman orientation class and instead of paying fifteen dollars for a new (and taxed) copy, I bought it in near-perfect condition for seven bucks. This was a great find!
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Die Gnosis.
Hans Leisegang
Kröner, 1985
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Confabulario Definitivo / Definitive Confabulario (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)1 review
Juan Jose Arreola
Ediciones Catedra S.A., 2004
A Magician
If you are looking for a book with stories that are, at best described as intriguing, then you must own Confabulario Definitivo by Juan José Arreola. Arreola knows how to play with narrative techniques in a manner that will leave the reader in doubt. In a short story titled, "El guardagujas", ...
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Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics)23 reviews
Anonymous
Penguin Classics, 1977
Ian Myles Slater on: Excellent Translation (of the Prose)
+ Brilliant pageturner saga of a psycho killer-- and great poet
+ Great Story
The story of Egil son of Grim the Bald (Skalla-Grim) is one of the prose works from medieval Iceland known as sagas, and of the major sagas it probably most closely approximates the image popularly associated with the word. The story is multi-generational. It features Viking adventures, and its ...
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Travesias Intelectuales de Paul Groussac (Spanish Edition)
Paula Bruno, Paul Groussac
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2005
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Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)7 reviews
Francois Voltaire
Signet Classics, 2001
More Bang for your Buck with the Signet Classics volume
+ Voltaire at his most sarcastic
+ Great deal - Good book.
+ The Best Edition of Candide
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The Varieties of Religious Experience56 reviews
William James
Modern Library, 1999
Missed The Point?
+ Varieties of Religious Experience
+ The Varieties of Religious Experience (ebook)
James was a pioneer in the fledgling field of psychology. He was also a philosopher and held an M.D. degree. In 1902, he was the first American to be invited to give one of the prestigous "Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology" at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The lectures were given over ...
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The Woman in the Dunes57 reviews
Kobo Abe
Vintage, 1991
an existential novel
+ Sisyphus trapped in a castle made of sand
+ As great as Kafka's The Castle
+ Scary, but somehow comforting.
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An Experiment With Time (Studies in Consciousness)13 reviews
J. W. Dunne
Hampton Roads Pub Co, 2001
Only ingrained habit of thought limits us
+ Borges on Dunne
+ Time and Dreams
+ Infinite regress
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A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro
R. B. Cunninghame Graham
Kessinger Publishing, 2003
1920. Found in this volume is the story of Antonio Conselheiro, the last of the Gnostics, who defied all the Brazilian forces for a year or so and was eventually slain with all his followers. The followers of Conselheiro were, almost to a man, what are known as Jaguncos, a term invented for the most prominent of the cattle men who live in the Sertao, and signifying something between a bully and a ...
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Bomarzo (Spanish Edition)8 reviews
Manuel Mujica Lainez
Sudamericana, 2002
Excelente!
+ too many words
+ Outstanding
+ To everyone...do you think it's possible?Help me!
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The Wandering Unicorn1 review
Manuel Mujica Lainez
Chatto and Windus, 1983
Out of print, but still excellent and evocative
Out of print now, I found this book only through browsing through a library book sale. Translated into English, it is probably a poor shadow of what it must be in its original language, but the epic feeling is still brought through in this novel. The book follows the story of one fairy, doomed to ...
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Holy Saturday and Other Stories (Discoveries)
Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
Latin American Literary Review Press, 1988
stories, Argentina, tr Leland H Chambers
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