Archaic Books
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 118,889 ratings — published -2000
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 70,743 ratings — published -450
Candide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 301,266 ratings — published 1759
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 143,299 ratings — published -19
The Iliad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 509,018 ratings — published -800
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,191,044 ratings — published -800
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 4,795,158 ratings — published 1813
Carmilla (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 196,704 ratings — published 1872
Sri Guru Granth Sahib (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 294 ratings — published 1708
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 782 ratings — published 2022
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 35,666 ratings — published 1887
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 258,725 ratings — published 1949
The Complete Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 69 ratings — published 1220
The Frogs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9,328 ratings — published -405
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 410 ratings — published 1970
Images in the Margins (Medieval Imagination)
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avg rating 4.03 — 65 ratings — published 2009
Machiavellian Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 44 ratings — published 2011
Revelations of Divine Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 8,036 ratings — published 1393
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 40,564 ratings — published -411
Lucian, Volume VII: Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the Courtesans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 193 ratings — published 1961
A History of My Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,381 ratings — published -362
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 78,236 ratings — published 8
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 13,538 ratings — published -50
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 2,155 ratings — published -416
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 5,341 ratings — published 150
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 22,781 ratings — published 121
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Aemilius Paulus, Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Grachus, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Marc Anthony)
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avg rating 4.09 — 845 ratings — published 100
The Man of Feeling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1,885 ratings — published 1771
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 20,361 ratings — published 1508
Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 58 ratings — published
Theological-Political Treatise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 5,165 ratings — published 1670
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 206,016 ratings — published 1321
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 7,541 ratings — published 2022
A People's History of Civilization (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 85 ratings — published
The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 34 ratings — published 1672
Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 1959
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,060 ratings — published 1580
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 566 ratings — published 1987
Historia General de las Cosas de la Nueva España. (Sepan Cuantos, #300)
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avg rating 3.83 — 60 ratings — published 1577
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 5,261 ratings — published 1633
Romantic Rationalist: A William Godwin Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published
تروكرل 'المثنوي المقدس' (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,180 ratings — published 1812
The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 457 ratings — published -2400
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 18,918 ratings — published 1755
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 227,190 ratings — published 1611
تذکرة الاولیاء (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 995 ratings — published 1220
Hippolytos (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 7,020 ratings — published -428
“A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!”
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“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen, thine, cometh, aweary—the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers—I could now see—faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch,”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin



