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The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-16 | Author:Luigi Pirandello

XII The Eye of Papiano “The tragedy of Orestes in a puppet theatre!” Anselmo Paleari announced to me one day. “They’re automatic puppets, a new invention. It’s this evening at ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical September 6,2019 )
Of Gods and Men by Daisy Dunn
epub |eng | | Author:Daisy Dunn

IN THE BEGINNING De Rerum Natura, Book V Lucretius Translated by Rev. John Selby Watson, 1880 The Greek philosopher Epicurus was adamant that humans should not fear death. The keenest ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical September 5,2019 )
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories From Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
epub |eng | 2019-08-07 | Author:Daisy Dunn [Dunn, Daisy]

IN THE BEGINNING De Rerum Natura, Book V Lucretius Translated by Rev. John Selby Watson, 1880 The Greek philosopher Epicurus was adamant that humans should not fear death. The keenest ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical August 13,2019 )
Complete Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson
epub |eng | 2015-11-20 | Author:Samuel Johnson [Johnson, Samuel]

( Category: Ancient & Classical August 2,2019 )
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Plutarch

26. So for the time being the assembly was adjourned. When the day came for voting on the law, Pompey went quietly out of the city into the country. There ...
( Category: Rome June 21,2019 )
Beowulf by Francis B. Gummere
epub | | | Author:Francis B. Gummere

XXVI * BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: — "Lo, we seafarers say our will, far-come men, that we fain would seek Hygelac now. We here have found hosts to our ...
( Category: Scandinavian June 7,2019 )
Beowulf: By J. Lesslie Hall - Illustrated by Hall J. Lesslie
azw |eng | 2016-12-19 | Author:Hall, J. Lesslie [Hall, J. Lesslie]

Beowulf grasps a giant-sword, Then he saw mid the war-gems a weapon of victory, An ancient giant-sword, of edges a-doughty, Glory of warriors: of weapons ’twas choicest, Only ’twas larger ...
( Category: Scandinavian June 6,2019 )
Sagas of the Icelanders (Illustrated): * (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Various
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-04-06 | Author:Various

They said this was unnecessary, as the man was dead before. "I will do more," he said, and struck two or three blows at Grettir's neck before he took off ...
( Category: Anthologies June 6,2019 )
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
epub |eng | 2017-05-27 | Author:Thucydides

1. As to the temple and oracle of the Pythian Apollo, we are agreed that whosoever will shall have access to it, without fraud or fear, according to the usages ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Arrian

BOOK FIVE In the country on Alexander’s route between the river Cophen and the Indus lay the city of Nysa, supposed to have been founded by Dionysus, at the time ...
( Category: Anthologies May 27,2019 )
The Early History of Rome: Bks. 1-5 (Penguin Classics) by Livy
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | Author:Livy

BOOK FOUR War and Politics The next consuls were Marcus Genucius and Gaius Curtius. War and political dissension made the year a difficult one. Hardly had it begun, when the ...
( Category: Greek May 27,2019 )
The Annals & The Histories: AND The Histories (Modern Library Classics) by Tacitus
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Tacitus

BOOK XV A.D. 62 — 65 Meanwhile, the Parthian king, Vologeses, when he heard of Corbulo’s achievements and of a foreign prince, Tigranes, having been set over Armenia, though he ...
( Category: History & Theory May 27,2019 )
Bulfinch's Mythology: (Pen & Mane Classics) by Bulfinch Thomas
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-02 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]

CHAPTER XIV 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: Gothic & Romantic May 27,2019 )
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by The Younger Pliny
mobi |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:The Younger Pliny

7. To his wife Calpumia You say that you are feeling my absence very much, and your only comfort when I am not there is to hold my writings in ...
( Category: Rome March 6,2019 )
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
mobi, epub |eng | 1970-01-02 | Author:Euripides

IPHIGENIA AT AULIS PREFACE TO IPHIGENIA AT AULIS The name of Iphigenia is absent from Homer. In one passage he mentions three daughters of Agamemnon as still alive and marriageable ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 6,2019 )

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