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Our most recommended books
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
by Virgil -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri -
Paradise Lost
by John Milton -
The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson -
Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor) -
William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor)
