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Handbook of Nature Study

by Anna Botsford Comstock

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Poems and Fragments by Sappho & translated by Stanley Lombardo

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by Jared Diamond

Poems and Fragments
by Sappho & translated by Stanley Lombardo

The Children's Homer
by Padraic Colum

Rogues’ Gallery
by Philip Hook

Catullus
by Catullus

The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis