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Book Cover for: The Iliad: 4, Homer Homer

The Iliad: 4

Homer Homer
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John Stuart Mill read Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad thirty times.

Paperback, 2018

$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco, asked about the impulse behind writing The Name of the Rose. I felt like poisoning a monk.

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Picasso

Gertrude Stein
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Picasso, when told that Gertrude Stein did not look like her portrait: Never mind. She will.

Paperback, 2022

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley was nineteen when she finished Frankenstein.

Paperback, 2003

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Book Cover for: Frost: Poems: Edited by John Hollander, Robert Frost

Frost: Poems: Edited by John Hollander

Robert Frost
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Robert Frost had exactly five poems accepted in the first seventeen years in which he was submitting.

Hardcover, 1997

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Book Cover for: Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children, Bertolt Brecht

Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem about one of the Dempsey-Tunney fights.

Paperback, 2010

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley was nineteen when she finished Frankenstein.

Hardcover, 2023

$46.00$23.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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