I've placed some Amazon links
below. Otherwise, the easiest way to make sure you get exactly the
same book is to copy and paste the 13-digit ISBN number (as in 978-0140447941).
If you choose to use a site that won't run an ISBN search, search not
only the author's surname and title but also the translator's name and
the publisher. You need exactly the right book because
translations are very different, you couldn't follow discussions or make
proper citations if you had different page numbers, and so on.
This does mean that even if you already have a different Iliad
or Werther, you need to get a new one.
The Caltech bookstore has been known to deliver books very late or
deliver the wrong books. Our books are available from them, but
using a different vendor would be a very good idea.
(1) Homer, The Iliad:
edition to be announced
(2) Goethe, J. W. von, The Sorrows of Young Werther,
translated by Michael Hulse (Penguin Classics), 978-0140445039
or 978-9992769027
https://www.amazon.com/Sorrows-Young-Werther-Penguin-Classics/dp/014044503X/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=werther+hulse&qid=1557784152&s=books&sr=1-2-catcorr
(3) James Macpherson, Fingal, an ancient epic poem, in six
books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian the son
of Fingal (Gale ECCO Print Editions, 2010),
978-1170043462 (important: not the same as 978-1170758175,
which has identical author and title but is a reprint of a different
edition)
https://www.amazon.com/Fingal-ancient-epic-poem-books/dp/1170043461/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=macpherson+ecco+gale&qid=1557784359&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Optional, would be for your reference only: Virgil, The
Aeneid, tr. David West, reissue (Penguin Classics, 2003),
978-0140449327
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