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  • Poem of My Cid (Selections) / Poema de Mio Cid (Selección)

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Early in the eighth century, Berbers from Morocco invaded Spain and quickly gained control of almost the entire peninsula. During the centuries-long struggle to reconquer their country, Christian warlords carved out small territories from the Moors, including the kingdom of Castile. Rodrigo Diaz, a Castilian knight who reclaimed much of Islamic Spain, ultimately achieved legendary status, and his ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • English Romantic Poetry

    An Anthology

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
    Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experience, as well as a preoccupation with such theme as nature, death, and the supernatural.This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Book of Poems (Selection)/Libro de poemas (Selección)

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Federico García Lorca ...
    Translated by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    The passionate life and violent death of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898–1936) retain an enduring fascination for readers around the world. Murdered by Nationalists at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, Lorca died at the peak of his creative powers. He remains his country's most widely translated writer, surpassed only by Cervantes in terms of critical commentary.This selection includes 55 of the 68 ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

    A Photographic Record

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the grounds (now Jackson Park) to marvel at the exhibits and displays housed in some 200 buildings, ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Medieval Tales and Stories

    108 Prose Narratives of the Middle Ages

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Ranging from half-page morality tales to hilarious bawdy stories several pages long, these centuries-old narratives offer revealing glimpses into many elements of medieval culture. Witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, and trial by torture are here, along with church councils, mercantile life, such famous figures as Abelard, Dante, and Giotto, and much ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum, James Camner ...
    Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers — the names of composers of great American musicals are household words. But many of the stars who introduced these songwriters' classic triumphs and whose names were on everybody's lips a few decades ago have been all but forgotten. Now, with this book, you can take a fascinating journey into the days when Lillian Russell and Frank Daniels, or ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • First Italian Reader

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Italian
    Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, it features the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and fifty-two others in both the original Italian and expert English translations on the facing pages. Selections include excerpts from poetry, fiction, history, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Second Spanish Reader

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Geared toward advanced beginners, this dual-language volume offers the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the matching Spanish text. It introduces such authors as Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Alarcón, Unamuno, and Darío, and such works as El buscón, Cartas marruecas, El estudiante de Salamanca, and Santa. Contents include plays, lyric and narrative verse, and prose ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Five Great German Short Stories

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language German
    In the nineteenth century, in the hands of such writers as Heinrich von Kleist and E. T. A. Hoffmann, the short story established itself as one of the most expressive and characteristic genres in German literature. Twentieth-century authors such as Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, and Franz Kafka continued to deepen and strengthen the tradition.Now five of the finest German short stories — each a ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • Introduction to French Poetry

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    An unusually useful survey of the development of French poetry, this book anthologizes works by France's finest and most influential poets — 30 in all — from the mid-fifteenth century to our own time. Included are such luminaries as Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Chénier, Hugo, Musset, Gautier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Great German Poems of the Romantic Era

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language German
    Lyric poetry blossomed in 19th-century Germany under the fertilizing influence of Romanticism with its focus on the primacy of the imagination, worship of nature and childhood, dreaminess and nostalgia and preoccupation with thoughts of night and death. Although strictly defined as flourishing from 1798 to 1835, Romanticism is not timebound and German Romantic poetry was written both before and ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • First French Reader

    A Beginner's Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    This excellent anthology offers the beginning French-language student a first taste of some of the world's most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts from such masterpieces as Les Misérables, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, Carmen, and The Three Musketeers will open new worlds for linguists. Readers will savor the words of fifty great writers of ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD