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1	Homer & Langley more books like this by E L Doctorow add to wishlist From "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate" to "The Book of Daniel," Doctorow's novels comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. With "Homer & Langley," the master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $13.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Rocket Boys: A Memoir more books like this by Homer H Hickam, Jr. add to wishlist Following the launching of the Soviet Sputnik, a young boy and his friends in rural West Virginia build a rocket and win the 1960 National Science Fair. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	October Sky more books like this by Homer H Hickam, Jr. add to wishlist Following the launching of the Soviet Sputnik, a young boy and his friends in rural West Virginia build a rocket and win the 1960 National Science Fair. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey more books like this by Homer add to wishlist Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.12!
5	The Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid more books like this by Gwen Bowers add to wishlist Friendship, suffering, betrayal, adventure--themes that motivate middle schoolers to read--take center stage in three plays that capture the most widely read epics by Homer and Virgil. This resource has everything teachers need to introduce each classic story: a short play written for middle-school readers, background information, vocabulary, ... see all copies from $35.72! new only from $35.72!
6	Winslow Homer Watercolors more books like this by Ms. Helen A Cooper add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $18.62! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Plessy V. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents more books like this by Brook Thomas add to wishlist In 1896 The United States Supreme Court made a decision in the case of Plessy v Ferguson which made possible a legal system of racial segregation in the US which was not overturned until the ruling of Brown v Board of Education in 1954.;In this introduction students are given the Court's reasoning, the factors that made such a decision possible, ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $9.29! \| SVS
8	The Odyssey more books like this by Stanley P Baldwin, M.A. add to wishlist Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
9	Ghosty Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders: An Urban Historical more books like this by Franz Lidz add to wishlist The story of Homer and Langley Collyer--sons of a doctor, graduates of Columbia--is bizarre indeed. Found at their once-elegant Harlem home after Homer's death was a lifetime of hoarding, 140 tons' worth of rusty metal, old machines, auto parts, broken appliances, pieces of musical instruments, newspapers, and plain junk--everything, in fact, that ... see all copies from $72.01!
10	Winslow Homer more books like this by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. add to wishlist This work examines Homer's artistic accomplishments. It focuses not only on his use of various media, but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.60! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light more books like this by Martha Tedeschi add to wishlist American painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) created some of the most breathtaking and influential watercolours in the history of the medium. This handsome volume provides a comprehensive look at Homer's technical and artistic practice as a watercolourist, and at the experiences that shaped his remarkable development. Focusing on 25 rarely seen ... see all copies from $29.69! new only from $29.69! \| SVS
12 view cover	Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners more books like this by Clyde Pharr add to wishlist This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from $9.55! new only from $26.04! \| SVS
13 view cover	World of Odysseus more books like this by M I Finley add to wishlist Who was Homer? When were the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" composed? What were Odysseus', Achilles, and Hector's beliefs about government, religion, and class? In this introduction to the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", the author uses both the texts and the latest research material to reconstruct the Homeric age. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca more books like this by Robert Bittlestone, James Diggle, John Underhill add to wishlist Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia, particularly because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki. This highly illustrated book tells the extraordinary story of the exciting recent discovery of the true location of Homer's ... see all copies from $4.74! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Fiesta more books like this by Mark Moran, Glen Victorey add to wishlist The dinnerware that "turns your table into a celebration" is giving its collectors more than a few reasons to enjoy the party. "Fiesta" is a vibrant and authoritative guide collectors can turn to for quick pricing and identification assistance wherever they are. This guide to the bright and abundantly fun: shows collectors more than 500 detailed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
16 view cover	The Homeric Hymns more books like this by Homer add to wishlist A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry. Attributed by the ancients to Homer, these prooimia, or preludes, were actually composed over centuries and used by poets to prepare for the singing or recitation of longer portions of the Homeric epics. In his acclaimed translations of the hymns, ... see all copies from $8.88! new only from $11.93! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Singer of Tales: Second Edition more books like this by Albert B Lord, Professor Gregory Nagy (Editor), Stephen Mitchell (Editor) add to wishlist This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began ... see all copies from $14.66! new only from $20.87!
18 view cover	Sky of Stone: A Memoir more books like this by Homer H Hickam, Jr. add to wishlist Hickam returns to his coal-mining home town for an insightful summer in this sequel to his bestselling memoirs ROCKET BOYS and THE COALWOOD WAY. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A Companion to the Iliad more books like this by Malcolm M Willcock add to wishlist Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.96! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith more books like this by David Edwin Harrell, Jr. add to wishlist Combining institutional history and biography, this text shows how the story of the Churches of Christ, a nondenominational movement of autonomous congregations, is reflected by Homer Hailey, a preacher, whose life puts into perspective the personal journeys travelled by members in the 20th-century see all copies from $4.98! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
21 view cover	Homeric Hymns more books like this by Susan C Shelmerdine add to wishlist English translation of all the Homeric Hymns, with notes and introductions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	October sky : a true story more books like this by Homer H. Hickam add to wishlist Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. A nostalgic and lyrical memoir of growing up in rural West Virginia in the 1950s and one boy's dream to rival the Russians in the race for space. In 1957 in Coalwood, West ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.78! \| SVS
23 view cover	A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges more books like this by Georg Autenrieth, Isaac Flagg (Editor), Robert P Keep (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.64! new only from $21.73! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Divine Inspiration more books like this by Mrs. Jane Langton add to wishlist A mystery of other-worldly charm--set amid ecclesiastical mayhem and musical mischief--by the queen of the New England mystery. Accented with Bach's glorious musical puzzles, church politics, pipe organs, and Langton's inimitable line drawings detailing the nooks and crannies of Boston. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Singer of Tales more books like this by Albert B Lord add to wishlist This case study of the bardic tradition is part linguistics, part anthropology. Based on their assumptions that classical Greek poetic composition was a matter of arranging set combinations of phrases, scholars Parry and Lord set out for the Balkans in the 1930s to discover if contemporary oral traditions likewise used ready-made fragments as they ... see all copies from $4.89! new only from $12.48! \| first editions

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