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The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

by Homer

Published: 1998-11-05

Paperback: 515 pages

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The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard tr...

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Of Africa

by Wole Soyinka

Published: 2012-11-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressib...

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Of Bees & Mist

by ERICK SETIAWAN

Published: 2009-01-01

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Of Bees and Mist: A Novel

by Erick Setiawan

Published: 2009-08-04

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Raised in a sepulchral house where ghosts dwell in mirrors, Meridia grows up lonely and miserable. But at age sixteen, she has a chance at happiness when she falls in love with Daniel-a caring and naive young man. Soon they marry, and Meridia can finally escape to live with her husband's f...

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Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard

by Mawi Asgedom

Published: 2002-09-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Now in a paperback edition, this acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from heaven, " and realized...

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Of Courage Undaunted

by James Daugherty

Published: 1999-12-01

Paperback: 168 pages

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Originally published in 1951, Newbery and Caldecott Medal winner James Daugherty has applied his literary and artistic skill to bringing to life the remarkable expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 3555-mile trek from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. Taken largely from original accounts...

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Of Furnaces

by GEBER THE ARABIAN ALCHEMIST

Published: 2001-11

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The Ways of their Alchemical Operation, illustrated with numerous examples, and a glossary appended.

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Of Ghosts and Gunpowder

by Paul Westwood

Published: 2011-03-28

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Captain Stephen Parker is a man who thinks he has seen everything. Having survived the Civil War as a cavalry officer, he now works as a soldier of fortune. After ten years of adventure, he decides to start anew, and interviews with the remarkable Doctor Townsend, who has spent his entire ...

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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

Published: 2011-05-11

Paperback: 794 pages

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From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.

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Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)

by W. Somerset Maugham

Published: 1999-03-02

Paperback: 656 pages

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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there."        Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexu...