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9781469931456 | Createspace, March 29, 2012, cover price $17.95

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This is a beautiful version of the Tao Te Ching, most well understood when read alongside a more literal translation. This one is a bit more modern & poetic than a starker literal translation, but when read together the deeper meanings come through.
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9780785825166 | Collectors edition (Chartwell Books, August 30, 2009), cover price $7.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching | About this edition: This is a beautiful version of the Tao Te Ching, most well understood when read alongside a more literal translation.

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9781448018659 | Textstream, August 1, 2011, cover price $5.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching
9781848372443 | Gardners Books, July 1, 2009, cover price $12.05 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching
9780559118937 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $18.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching | About this edition: The Tao Te Ching was written in China roughly 2,500 years ago at about the same time when Buddha expounded the Dharma in India and Pythagoras taught in Greece.
9780559118982 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $13.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching
9780872202320 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Deftly introduced and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions.

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By Stanley Lombardo (trans)
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9781610971621 | Wipf & Stock Pub, March 1, 2011, cover price $11.00

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Product Description: Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own...read more
By W. R. Johnson (introduced by), Stanley Lombardo (trans) and Ovid
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9781603843072 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own.

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Product Description: This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages...read more
By Homer, Stanley Lombardo (trans) and Sheila Murnaghan (introduced by)
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9780872209008 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 7, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This generous abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey" offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.

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9780872208995 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 7, 2007, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.

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Product Description:  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 breathes new life into some of the most famous and beloved ancient works with this engaging and vibrant audio performance of carefully selected excerpts of Homer's Iliad andOdyssey...read more
By Stanley Lombardo (trans) and Susan Sarandon (narrator)
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9781930972124 | Abridged edition (Parmenides Pub, October 30, 2006), cover price $48.00 | About this edition:  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.

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Product Description: 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 breathes new life into one of the most famous and beloved ancient works with this engaging and vibrant audio performance of carefully selected excerpts of Homer's Iliad...read more
By Stanley Lombardo (trans) and Susan Sarandon (narrator)
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9781930972100 | Abridged edition (Parmenides Pub, September 15, 2006), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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 breathes new life into one of the most famous and beloved ancient works with an engaging and vibrant audio performance of Homer's Iliad...read more
By Stanley Lombardo (trans) and Susan Sarandon (narrator)
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9781930972087 | Unabridged edition (Parmenides Pub, March 15, 2006), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges...read more
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9780872207912 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, May 15, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges.

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9780872207905 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 30, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges.

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9789990192292 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 30, 2005, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Homer and Stanley Lombardo (trans)
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9780872205413 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

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9780872205406 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

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Product Description: While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Stanley Lombardo (trans) and Sheila Murnaghan (introduced by)
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9780872205420 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.

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Product Description: While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgment highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Homer, Stanley Lombardo (trans) and Sheila Murnaghan (introduced by)
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9780872205437 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgment highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.

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Product Description: 'This is by far the best rendering of Hesiod's poems in print. The translation is fully accurate but so readable one doesn't want to stop; it exactly captures Hesiod's rustic wisdom, his humour and his cautious pessimism...Clear brief notes and a glossary make this a must for introductory courses: students will love it' - Richard Janko, University College, London...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780872201798 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: 'This is by far the best rendering of Hesiod's poems in print.

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9780801832819 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $27.00

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Product Description: To the groundbreaking series that began with Iliad (1997), and continued with Odyssey (2000) and Aeneid (2005), Stanley Lombardo now adds his translation of the first part of their most natural successor, Dante s great poetic synthesis of the classical pagan and medieval Christian traditions...read more
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9780872209183 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 1, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: To the groundbreaking series that began with Iliad (1997), and continued with Odyssey (2000) and Aeneid (2005), Stanley Lombardo now adds his translation of the first part of their most natural successor, Dante s great poetic synthesis of the classical pagan and medieval Christian traditions.

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9780554539409, titled "The Inferno" | Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2008, cover price $13.99 | also contains INFERNO, Inferno, Inferno, The Inferno | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780554539362, titled "The Inferno" | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2008), cover price $18.99 | also contains INFERNO, Inferno, Inferno, The Inferno | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9789990018622 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, October 1, 1985), cover price $0.02 | also contains INFERNO, Inferno, Inferno, The Inferno

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Product Description: To the groundbreaking series that began with Iliad (1997), and continued with Odyssey (2000) and Aeneid (2005), Stanley Lombardo now adds his translation of the first part of their most natural successor, Dante's great poetic synthesis of the classical pagan and medieval Christian traditions...read more
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9780872209176 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 1, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: To the groundbreaking series that began with Iliad (1997), and continued with Odyssey (2000) and Aeneid (2005), Stanley Lombardo now adds his translation of the first part of their most natural successor, Dante's great poetic synthesis of the classical pagan and medieval Christian traditions.
9780554539409, titled "The Inferno" | Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2008, cover price $13.99 | also contains INFERNO, Inferno, Inferno, The Inferno | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780554539362, titled "The Inferno" | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2008), cover price $18.99 | also contains INFERNO, Inferno, Inferno, The Inferno | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9789990018622 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, October 1, 1985), cover price $0.02 | also contains INFERNO, Inferno, Inferno, The Inferno

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