 | The Kalevala (Oxford World's Classics) by Elias Lönnrot
Buy used from: £4.85 Well worth a look
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 | Beowulf: A New Translation
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.99 A truely great translation of a must-read classic
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 | The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £6.65 Labyrinthine for sure, but what a labyrinth
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 | The Koran (Oxford World's Classics)
Buy used from: £0.85 Offers much, if you are prepared to listen
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 | The Bible: Authorized King James Version (Oxford World's Classics)
Buy used from: £7.96 Any serious student of literature should read this
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 | The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions (Oxford World's Classics) by Sir James George Frazer
Buy used from: £10.76 Full of poetic truth
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 | The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £13.29 / Used from: £0.01 A true classic of literature, following the thought that there is an underlying myth behind all others
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 | Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy used from: £1.30 Beautiful
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 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £11.43 Lawrence was maybe a better poet than an author - discuss
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 | The Complete Fairy Tales (Routledge Classics) by Jacob Grimm
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £4.95 Full of symbolism
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 | John Keats: Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by John Keats
Buy used from: £8.08 Over familiar, but well worth a look
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 | Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) by Aesop
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £3.14 Like Grimm, essential, as are all these books
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