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The Sagas of the Icelanders by Robert Kellogg & Various & Jane Smiley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Kellogg & Various & Jane Smiley [Kellogg, Robert & Various & Smiley, Jane]

44 Kjartan and Kalf set sail and had favourable winds and a speedy passage. They cast anchor at the mouth of the river Hvita in Borgarfjord. The news of Kjartan’s ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2019 )
The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Susan Higginbotham [Higginbotham, Susan]

"How's your wife?" Richard asked me as we settled ourselves in for a companionable evening at Baynard's Castle, one of the Duchess of York's homes. Richard was staying there while ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 3,2019 )
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
epub |eng | | Author:Ovid

BOOK IX THE NEPTUNIAN HERO ASKED the god why he groaned and what was the cause of his mutilated forehead. And thus the Calydonian river, binding up his rough locks ...
( Category: Poetry December 29,2018 )
Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
epub |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:Sophocles

ISMENE I shall not recount what I suffered in seeking you out, Father, as I do not want to endure it twice, once in the suffering and again in the ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays December 27,2018 )
Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
epub |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:Honore de Balzac

16. RE DAURIAT LUCIEN left Coralie and Camusot to go to the Galeries de Bois. What a change his initiation into the mysteries of journalism had produced in his mind! ...
( Category: Classics December 27,2018 )
The Difficulty of Being Good by Das Gurcharan
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Das, Gurcharan [Das, Gurcharan]

The war convention The detailed code of warfare elaborated in the epic places the men of the Mahabharata closer to the chivalric knights of the Western middle ages. They were ...
( Category: Hinduism December 22,2018 )
Phaedrus by Plato
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-07-07 | Author:Plato

PHAEDRUS: True. SOCRATES: And if the law is finally approved, then the author leaves the theatre in high delight; but if the law is rejected and he is done out ...
( Category: Philosophy December 10,2018 )
Natural Questions (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
azw3 |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Lucius Annaeus Seneca [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus]

(2) You can see whole regions torn up from their foundations and what had been next door lying across the sea; you can see cities and nations rent apart when ...
( Category: Environment December 9,2018 )
Oresteia (Hackett Classics) by Aeschylus
azw3 |eng | 1998-09-14 | Author:Aeschylus

—I’ll tell you this, we should raise the alarm, get the people to storm the palace! [1350] —No! We must go in now, catch them red-handed, while the blade is ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays December 6,2018 )
Complete Aeschylus, The (Volume I: The Oresteia) by Aeschylus
epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Aeschylus [Aeschylus]

410 withering life away. Yes, at our birth, we were given this holy task. Strophe 2 So the high gods steer clear of us, and we of them. None of ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 12,2018 )
Iliad, The (B&N) by Homer
epub |eng | 0101-02-01 | Author:Homer [Homer]

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...
( Category: Poetry November 12,2018 )
Beowulf: a verse translation by Anonymous (Alexander Michael - transl.)
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Anonymous (Alexander, Michael - transl.) [Anonymous (Alexander, Michael - transl.)]

1590 And above, the wise men who watched with Hrothgar the depths of the pool descried soon enough blood rising in the broken water and marbling the surface. Seasoned warriors, ...
( Category: Poetry November 12,2018 )
Bulfinch's Mythology (B&N) by Bulfinch Thomas
epub |eng | 1855-01-18 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:—“Him steadfastly he marked, and ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales November 11,2018 )
The Sorrow Stone by J A McLachlan
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:J A McLachlan [McLachlan, J A]

*** Jean awoke to see a dull, overcast sky through the windows. He had slept deeply, as he sometimes did after coming to a decision, and had no time to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 6,2018 )
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight by J.R.R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J.R.R.]

He gete the bonk at his bak, bigyne3 to scrape, The frothe femed at his mouth vnfayre bi the wyke3, Whette3 his whyte tuschez; with hym then irked Alle the ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature November 5,2018 )

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