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Essays discuss classical and contemporary literature, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, The Odyssey, James Joyce, dictionaries, poetry, and other topics (view table of contents)

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9781567920802 | Reissue edition (David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $19.95
9780679738596 | Reissue edition (Pantheon Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss classical and contemporary literature, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, The Odyssey, James Joyce, dictionaries, poetry, and other topics

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Product Description: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length...read more

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9780912516363 | Grey Fox Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length.

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Product Description: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources.Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length...read more
By Guy Davenport (trans)

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9781610970884 | Wipf & Stock Pub, February 1, 2011, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources.

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Product Description: This first bibliography ever compiled on Kenner, this book records Hugh Kenner's published works in chronological sequence by date of publication. The majority of Kenner's work tends to be collected time and time again by editors seeking the best, most authoritative, and most provocative treatments at hand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Guy Davenport (foreword by) and William Goodwin

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9780878755240 | Whitston Pub Co Inc, November 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This first bibliography ever compiled on Kenner, this book records Hugh Kenner's published works in chronological sequence by date of publication.

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Product Description: Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus is better described as a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from an eclectic stylist whose sentences ring with clarity and originality. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature...read more

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9781887178242, titled "The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art" | Counterpoint, December 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Collects essays commenting on art, architecture, religion, and literature

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9781887178556 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, July 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus is better described as a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from an eclectic stylist whose sentences ring with clarity and originality.

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Short stories deal with history, biography, botany, geology, philosophy language, and political science

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9780865472969 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Short stories deal with history, biography, botany, geology, philosophy language, and political science

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Product Description: Guy Davenport - regarded by the "New York Times" "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. Melding history, biography, botany, political theory, geology, and other interests, Davenport creates fictions that are complex but unified, mature, balanced, and resolved...read more

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9780801846809 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Guy Davenport - regarded by the "New York Times" "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms.

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Gathers the sayings of Jesus from the Gospels and other sources, translated into everyday English (view table of contents)

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9781887178709 | Counterpoint, April 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Gathers the sayings of Jesus from the Gospels and other sources, translated into everyday English

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Gathers the sayings of Jesus from the Gospels and other sources, translated into everyday English (view table of contents)
By Guy Davenport (editor) and Benjamin Urruitia (trans)

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9781887178181 | Counterpoint, April 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Gathers the sayings of Jesus from the Gospels and other sources, translated into everyday English

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9781582430355 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1999, cover price $17.95

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9789681665333 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 28, 2002, cover price $15.99

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Edited by an award-winning translator and poet, a collection of works from ancient Greece is an introduction to the genre for English-language readers and offers insight into how period writers regarded love, war, domestic life, vice, and friendship. Reprint.
By Guy Davenport (introduced by) and Burton Raffel (trans)

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9780679642978 | Modern Library, July 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of works from ancient Greece is an introduction to the genre for English-language readers and offers insight into how period writers regarded love, war, domestic life, vice, and friendship.

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9780812969627 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, October 11, 2005), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Edited by an award-winning translator and poet, a collection of works from ancient Greece is an introduction to the genre for English-language readers and offers insight into how period writers regarded love, war, domestic life, vice, and friendship.

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Presents a collection of short stories, including selections from 'The Four Million,' 'Roads of Destiny,' and 'Strictly Business.'

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9780140186888 | Penguin Classics, June 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories, including selections from 'The Four Million,' 'Roads of Destiny,' and 'Strictly Business.

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9780811212519 | New Directions, December 1, 1993, cover price $24.95

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9780811217712 | Reprint edition (New Directions, November 30, 1993), cover price $16.95

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The American comments on the modern age, mechanization, and the division between animate and inanimate in this selection of his fiction

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9780801828003 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The American comments on the modern age, mechanization, and the division between animate and inanimate in this selection of his fiction

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Product Description: This is a fine hardcover copy of the book with grey boards, and gilt lettering on the spine. Light shelf wear. Tight binding. Clean pages. Jacket is in very good condition, with some chipping near spine head and little sunning. Not an ex-library copy...read more

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9780865472273 | North Point Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is a fine hardcover copy of the book with grey boards, and gilt lettering on the spine.

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