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The Laws of Manu
Translated with an Introduction by Wendy
Doniger O’Flaherty with Brian K. Smith
No understanding of modern India is
possible without this extraordinary model
of jurisprudence, philosophy, and religion,
written from 200 b.c. to a.d. 200.
368 pp. 978-0-14-044540-4 $16.00
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Michael Alpert
These two short novels focus on the
adventures of two unlikely heroes—
delinquent picaros living by their wits
among corrupt priests and prostitutes,
beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves,
tricksters, and murderers. Lazarillo de
Tormes, by an unknown author, and
The Swindler, by Francisco de Quevedo,
are sharply critical of the Church and
the conventions of nobility and contain
grotesquely exaggerated depictions of the
criminal underworld.
240 pp. 978-0-14-044900-6 $15.00
Lives of the Later Caesars
Translated with an Introduction by
Anthony Birley
Covering the emperors from Hadrian
to Heliogabalus (a.d. 117–222), this
edition contains the only true sequel to
Suetonius’s The Twelve Caesars.
336 pp. 978-0-14-044308-0 $15.00
The Mabinogion
Translated with an Introduction by
Jeffrey Gantz
These tales from the Welsh oral
tradition were first written down in the
thirteenth century and remain an alluring
combination of fact and fantasy, myth,
history, and folklore.
376 pp. 978-0-14-044322-6 $13.00
The Mahabharata
Translated and Edited with an
Introduction by J. D. Smith
Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime
between 400 BC and 400 AD, The
Mahabharata is one of the longest poems
in existence and a legendary Hindu text of
immense importance to the culture of the
Indian subcontinent.
900 pp. 978-0-14-044681-4 $20.00
The Nibelungenlied
Translated with an Introduction by
A. T. Hatto
This great German epic poem, written
during the thirteenth century, is the
principal literary source of Richard
Wagner’s The Ring.
416 pp. 978-0-14-044137-6 $16.00
Njal’s Saga
Edited and Translated with an Introduction
by Robert Cook
This newly translated edition of the
most powerful and popular of the
great Icelandic Family Sagas describes
a fifty-year blood feud from its violent
beginnings to its tragic end.
384 pp. 978-0-14-044769-9 $16.00
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