Burton Raffel

• Feb-1985
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• May-1986
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• May-1986
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• Nov-2004
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The best of American short fiction

Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Edgar Allan Poe * Herman Melville * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Bret Harte * Bayard Tay...

• Jul-2008
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Kept alive for more than 13 centuries, Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language, reflecting a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. This edition of Raffel's acclaimed transla...

• Jun-2010
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America's war against itself developed slowly, pressing on people in all walks and ways of life. The Bingham family-of New England, then rural New York, then the great city of New York-was, like everyone else, caught up in deep, churning passions. Th...