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Book cover for Coleman Barks: I Want Burning

I Want Burning

Coleman Barks
Unabridged on 1 CD, $26.95

Why is a 700-year-old mystic named Jelaluddin Rumi the #1-selling poet in America? The answer to that question is simple: Coleman Barks.

From his immensely popular translations of Rumi to his featured appearances on public television, this award-wi ...

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Paradise : From the Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri
Unabridged on 1 CD, $45.95

Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise. In this third and final part of The Divine Comedy, he encounters the just rulers and holy saints of the Church. The horrors of Inferno and th ...

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri
Unabridged on 11 CDs, $30.95

One of the greatest works in literature, Dantes story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice. A single listening will reveal Dantes visual imagination ...

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri
Unabridged on 1 CD, $120.95

Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early 14th century. This unabridged box set contains the trilogy of The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, plus a biography of Dante-A Life of Da ...

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Beowulf

Benedict Flynn
Unabridged on 2 CDs, $27.95

The oldest long poem in Old English, written about 1000 AD, tells the story of a great warrior in Southern Scandinavia in both youth and maturity. The monster Grendel terrorizes the Scyldings of Hrothgar's Danish Kingdom until Beowulf defeats him. As ...

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : New Verse Translation

Benedict Flynn
Unabridged on 2 CDs, $27.95



Book cover for R. K. Gordon: Beowulf

Beowulf

R. K. Gordon
Unabridged on 3 CDs, $36.95



Book cover for Homer: Iliad

Iliad

Homer
Unabridged on 6 CDs, $62.95

The selections have been made with an eye toward keeping the major characters, events, and themes in clear focus.

Book cover for Homer: Iliad

Iliad

Homer
Unabridged on 13 CDs, $131.95

Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent, while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; ...

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Odyssey

Homer
Unabridged on 10 CDs, $62.95

The classics are rapidly receding from public consciousness, and modern revisions of them, such as the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou, are in genuine danger of never being linked to their original inspiration. Noted classicist Stanley Lombardo breat ...

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