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Gerald’s 2024 Year in Books
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Beowulf
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619 editions
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Don Quixote
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13 editions
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The Canterbury Tales
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1400
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70 editions
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The Divine Comedy
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
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663 editions
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A Murder Too Personal
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2000
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Beowulf The New Translation
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Left No Forwarding Address
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2005
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Jungle of Glass
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2002
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3 editions
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Le Morte d’Arthur: The New Retelling by Gerald J. Davis
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GILGAMESH
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Breathtaking! I’ve seldom enjoyed a book this much. I have read several books by Michael Korda, (HERO is the best) but this was the most entertaining. Korda gives a history of the publishing industry from a first-hand viewpoint and he has a front-row ...more |
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Excellent! Beautiful and heartfelt retelling of the life and times of H. L. Mencken. I wish I had known him and William Manchester. |
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Excellent! Well-written and authoritative. A nuanced view of a complicated founder of our country. Congratulations to Nancy Isenberg for bringing Aaron Burr out of the shadows of an (mostly) unfavorable historical view of him. |
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"Great narrative and world, memorable metaphors. Touching, not only it's themes of forgiveness and redemption, but also the friendship between Dante and Virgil whose departure just before Dante enters heaven is my favorite part of the book. Very flawe"
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"After all these years, I finally read Beowulf. By all accounts I was lucky I chose this new translation. Very readable and still poetic."
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"Wonderful journey back in time. Interesting to see how JRR Tolkien used bits of this ancient story as he created the characters and history of Middle Earth. "
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“There are no footnotes or endnotes in this translation. If any explanations or clarifications are required, they are embedded in the body of the text, so as not to interrupt the flow of the words. After all, as Noel Coward once famously remarked, “Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
― The Canterbury Tales: The New Translation
― The Canterbury Tales: The New Translation
“The life of a man is as easily broken as a reed in a thicket of cane.”
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
“Have you ever, O Gilgamesh, compared your lot with that of a fool?”
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
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“could the shepherds lie down in peace. They could slumber undisturbed, for Enkidu was their watchman, he who remained awake in the night.”
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
“the Great Gods suffered hunger and thirst, for mortals no longer offered up food and drink as sacrifice unto the Gods.”
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
― Gilgamesh: The New Translation
“There are no footnotes or endnotes in this translation. If any explanations or clarifications are required, they are embedded in the body of the text, so as not to interrupt the flow of the words. After all, as Noel Coward once famously remarked, “Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
― The Canterbury Tales: The New Translation
― The Canterbury Tales: The New Translation
“Who shall give a lover any law?’ Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.”
― The Canterbury Tales
― The Canterbury Tales
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