Ancient & Medieval Literature
epub |ara, deu, eng, fra, ita | 2011-08-08 | Author:Christopher B. Krebs

8. A Germanic farmer in Justus Möser’s History of Osnabrück. Widener Library, Harvard College Library, 47528.1.10. A woodcut adorns the History of Osnabrück. Traditional and Tacitean, it looks back to ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Mary Beard

In the fourteenth century Dante cast the Roman poet Virgil as his guide in his poem Inferno (or Hell—part of his Divine Comedy). In this painting, Dante and Virgil in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-02-01 | Author:Jonathan Swift

CHAPTER II. The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. An account of their learning. Of the king and his court. The author’s reception there. The inhabitants subject to fear ...
( Category: Satire January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Liu Hsieh [Hsieh, Liu]

XIX. Edict and Script (Chao Ts’e) Translator’s note: From the text of this chapter, it seems obvious that no one of the terms used to stand for different types of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-12 | Author:Robin Nadler [Nadler, Robin]

“I bwave!” he said. “You most certainly are,” Bill reached to pick him up and Julie grabbed her camera to get a picture. “I cute!” Josie said and toddled in ...
( Category: Architecture November 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Jana Downs [Downs, Jana]

* * * * Kelr heard the alert on the front door but knew Landen was upstairs changing for their outing. Apparently his servant wanted to pick up a few ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch

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: Folklore & Mythology June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Phaedrus, by Plato * * * Etext of Phaedrus, by Plato A free ebook from http://manybooks.net/ Phaedrus Table of Contents
( Category: Greek & Roman May 30,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Hamilton, Edith [Hamilton, Edith]

A king sat on the rocky brow That looks on sea-born Salamis, And ships by thousands lay below, And men by nations—all were his. He counted them at break of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1881-04-26 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch [Bulfinch, Thomas]

Chapter 14 Sir Tristram's Battle with Sir Launcelot Sir Tristram rode through a forest and saw ten men fighting, and one man did battle against nine. So he rode to ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Irmgard Keun

Gilgi is lying in bed. She’s asleep. Wakes up: one in the morning. Martin has gone out. Why shouldn’t a man go out by himself sometimes? That’s quite in order. ...
( Category: German April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-06-01 | Author:MacKillop, James [MacKillop, James]

10 The Ulster Cycle Part II: Cúchulainn and the Táin ROOTS OF HEROIC IDENTITY Cúchulainn usually can be counted on to get the best of things, as his appearance in ...
( Category: Medieval April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-02-28 | Author:Plato

Impossible, he replied. She is held fast by the corporeal, which the continual association and constant care of the body have wrought into her nature. Very true. And this corporeal ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 3,2015 )
azw |eng | 2008-11-20 | Author:Cather, Willa [Cather, Willa]

VIII The Harling children and I were never happier, never felt more contented and secure, than in the weeks of spring which broke that long winter. We were out all ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense January 17,2015 )
azw, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Aristotle

Euripides has thus embodied this sentiment; "How," says one of his Characters, "How foolish am I, who whereas I might have shared equally, idly numbered among the multitude of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 17,2015 )