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  A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

  by Arthur Rimbaud

  The classic influential poems by Rimbaud, in a bilingual en face edition featuring acclaimed translations by Louise Varése. Although he stopped writing at the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) possessed the most revolutionary talent of the past hundred years, and his poetry and prose have increasingly influenced the major writers of our century. To his masterpiece A Season in Hell is here added... (more)
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  Perceval: The Story of the Grail (Chretien De Troyes Romances S.)

  by Burton Raffel, Chre?tien

  The story of the Grail. Perceval progresses from a naive boyhood in rural seclusion to a position of high respect as a knight at King Arthur's court.
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  Cliges

  by Burton Raffel, Chre?tien

  In this extraordinarily fine translation of Cliges, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes, Burton Raffel captures the liveliness, innovative spirit, and subtle intentions of the original work. In this poem, Chretien creates his most artful plot and paints the most starkly medieval portraits of any of his romances. The world he describes has few of the... (more)
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  The Song of Roland

  by Anonymous

  Presents the classical epic, glorifying the heroism of Charlemagne in the 778 battle between the Franks and the Moors. Bibliogs.
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  Lancelot: Or, the Knight of the Cart

  by Burton Raffel, Chre?tien

  The romantic poems of 12th-century French poet Chretien de Troyes were of immense influence across Europe - widely imitated, translated, and adapted. Giving rise to a tradition of story-telling that continues to this day, the poems established the shape of the nascent Arthurian legend. In this translation of "Lancelot", Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chretien's five surviving... (more)