Kirtas Books

This translation focused on readability, not on maintaining the language of the 16th Century. rnrnThis is the final version and represents the work as the 'group of scholars' intended it. The earlier versions are 'beta' copies which were released to get feedback on the 'readability' of the work. rn

I didn't see the book anyway. But it is credible reference book for the studies on antique period.rnI have been studing on Tium and around for some years. There are many books on my hand, but this paper is the most important one. Unfortunately I have not any copy. And after all, as a neighbour to Tium, I want to learn its history from Alexander Boutkowski.rnThank you so much.

With Adler's book one learns Latin by composing it and speaking it, making one's knowledge of the language more like the knowledge of modern spoken languages. It is also the basis of Evan Millner's Latinum Podcast. He has recorded the whole book as podcasts suitable for download to an mp3 player. Latin can be learned while driving or exercising. rnrnI've been using the book myself, and find my knowledge of Latin to be deepened considerably, especially in my understanding of the cases. Before, they were understood analytically from studying the grammar. Now, I understand them without having to think about it, just from the practice of listening to spoken Latin. rnrnAdler is also reputedly the model for Melville's Bartleby. rnrn

Enormous, hugely influential Latin Renaissance commentary on the Pentateuch (literal, allegorical, tropological). Amazingly clear reproduction: every word can still be read -- a tribute to the quality of the original book (it was printed in easy-on-the-eye type, not the oppressively overblack blackletter of so many 17th century folios) & also to the quality of the modern digitalization (not one page is missing, blurred, or skewed). A few undistracting marginal marks in the early chapters of Genesis, otherwise quite clean internally. Pages are about 8.5 in. by 10.75 in., and there are about 1,100 of them, so this is a book to buy in hard cover, not soft cover!

English translation of a classic collection of essays written by George Sand in the 1860s & 1870s, at the height of her powers. Vignettes of her daily life; discussions of punctuation, universal suffrage, religion; book reviews; etc. Includes her famous response to her friend Flaubert's despair over the Franco-Prussian War ("What! You want me to stop loving?..."). Accurately & readably translated (unlike most 19th century English renderings of Sand!). No marginalia; no missing, blurred, or skewed pages. Page size approx 4 in. by 6.5 in., making a lovely pocket sized volume (like an old Oxford World's Classics edition), and the print is still reasonably large & legible throughout, even though faint in places (not the fault of the digitalization but of the poorly manufactured 1877 book).

19th cent Hebrew-English lexicon (1840, not 1844 despite the Penn catalog info). Virtually unknown today, but independent & occasionally contains useful material that you won't find in any later lexicon (eg the suggestion that prs in Lv 11:3 means simply 'hoofed with a hoof': this isn't even mentioned by Gesenius-Tregelles, BDB, HALOT, or TDOT, but it has been accepted by Milgrom & most recent commentators & is reflected in the HCSB translation). Well digitalized from a clean copy. No marginalia; no missing, skewed, or blurred pages. Page size about 5.5 in. by 8.5 in., which makes the Hebrew a bit small, but all consonants & nearly all vowel points can still be read clearly.