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The Divine Comedy (Everyman's Library Classics)  List price: $31.00 25 new, used & collectible available from $17.72. This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s.... |
 List price: $23.99 1 new available from $23.99. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by George Routledge and Sons, London. Emerson's Complete Works. Riverside Edition: In Twelve Volumes. Volume 2... |
 List price: $15.95 61 new, used & collectible available from $6.20. Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Times and The Sunday Times [London]: “An indelible portrait of a peculiar society.”—Vogue The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. I... |
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Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began List price: $21.41 7 new & used available from $45.00. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"* and a "brutally moving work of art,"** the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking ... |
 List price: $4.99 25 new & used available from $2.52. Gitanjali is an important collection of prose by Rabindranath Tagore, being a key Indian poet, author and of course Nobel Peace Prize winner. Individuals who are intestered in eastern poetry should embrace this book as it was written with eastern philosophy in mind. Tagore has long been known as an important author of works related to eastern philosophical beliefs, and has written an excellent col... |
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