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The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback) By Homer, Robert Fagles (Translated by), Bernard Knox (Introduction by), Bernard Knox (Notes by) $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Beowulf (Paperback) By Seamus Heaney (Editor) $15.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback) By Sappho, Anne Carson (Translated by) $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit (Paperback) By Rumi, Maryam Mafi (Translated by), Azima Melita Kolin (Translated by) $14.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Inferno (The Divine Comedy) (Mass Market) By Dante, Anthony Esolen (Translated by), Gustave Dore (Illustrator) $8.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Edda (Paperback) By Snorri Sturluson $12.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Iliad (Mass Market) By Homer, W. H. D. Rouse (Translated by), Seth L. Schein (Introduction by), Adam Nicholson (Afterword by) $7.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback) By Marie de France, Glyn S. Burgess (Translated by), Glyn S. Burgess (Introduction by), Keith Busby (Translated by), Keith Busby (Introduction by) $18.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Paradise (The Divine Comedy) (Paperback) By Dante, Anthony Esolen (Translated by), Gustave Dore (Illustrator) $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
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