Their Eyes Were Watching God by HarperCollins $10.00

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics) by Penguin Classics $13.00
The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs.

Montaigne: Essays (Penguin Classics S.) by Penguin (Non-Classics) $14.00
Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience."

Sonnets & a Lover's Complaint (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Everyman Paperbacks $5.50
With their devastating depiction of lust and jealousy, love tangled with hate, hetrosexual and homosexual desire, Shakespeare's sonnets are among the most breathtaking-and mysterious-love poems yet written. The complete sequence is published here.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by J.A. Burrow $13.00
A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The...

The Book in the Renaissance by Yale University Press $25.00
The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals in this work of great historical merit, the story of the post-Gutenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to...

The Romance of the Rose by Princeton University Press $35.00
Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus. Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their...

Richard II (Shakespeare, Signet Classic) by Signet Classics $1.50
King Richard exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, the son of the powerful but ailing nobleman, John of Gaunt. When Gaunt dies and the king seizes his lands, the son returns to his homeland. But Bolingbroke's ambitions extend beyond his family's property. He seeks nothing less than Richard's crown and all of England. In this production Richard is played by Rupert Graves, and Bolingbroke, by Julian...

Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by University of Chicago Press $17.00
"A book which no one concerned with Western culture in or since the Renaissance should miss."--Richard Strier, Boundary 2

Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment (Junior Library Guild Selection (Charlesbridge Paper)) by Paolo Rui $7.95
When the great scientist and professor Galileo meets a bright farm boy, Massimo, the teacher becomes the student. On an ordinary day, Galileo encounters Massimo dropping food from a bridge to his uncle passing below in his boat. This simple action makes G