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The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
azw3, pdf |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Homer

“Respected wife of Odysseus, son of Laërtēs, do not any longer delay this contest in your house, for resourceful Odysseus will arrive here before that— 585 before these fellows can ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:Homer

So he spoke, and Idomeneus lashed the fine-maned horses back to the hollow ships, for fear had seized his heart.625 Nor did great-hearted Aias and Menelaös fail to see that ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Orpheus: The Song of Life by Wroe Ann
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Wroe, Ann [Wroe, Ann]

Medieval theologians followed Orpheus into a lower world already licked by fire. As an enlightened soul – as Intellect itself – he had no business to be there, among small ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) by Aesop
epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
The Morals, vol. 2 by Plutarch
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Plutarch

Old age the Cyprian queen must ever shun, And Venus from old men in scorn doth run. Therefore they marry not in May, but tarry till June, which is presently ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

* * * Antenami was very pleased with himself, hopeful that two desires could be assuaged now that he had found her. He had little interest in the family business. ...
( Category: Renaissance May 16,2019 )
Lost Gold of the Dark Ages by Caroline Alexander
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Caroline Alexander [Alexander, Caroline]

CONVERSIONS As pagan Anglo-Saxons moved into Britain after the Romans, Celtic Christians retreated westward or were absorbed into the invaders’ Germanic culture. It was only with the advent of Christian ...
( Category: Renaissance May 15,2019 )
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean by Cunliffe Barry;
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Cunliffe, Barry;

7.18 A marble stele commemorating Diodotus Tryphon found in the Greek city of Tanis at the mouth of the Don in the kingdom of Bosporus. He is dressed in scale ...
( Category: Historical Events May 15,2019 )
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-12 | Author:Michael Slater [Slater, Michael]

are not to be done without trouble; and the main trouble necessary to them, is the devising of some pleasant means of telling what is to be told. The indispensable ...
( Category: Victorian May 12,2019 )
The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Philip Kazan [Philip Kazan]

The nuns had washed and repaired my clothes. I found them waiting for me one morning when I came back to my cell after hobbling around the lovely little garden ...
( Category: Renaissance May 6,2019 )
Solid Seasons by Jeffrey S. Cramer
epub |eng | 2018-01-24 | Author:Jeffrey S. Cramer

I find the beef fat and well done, but him rare. —Journal, May 19, 1856117 How I love the simple, reserved countrymen, my neighbors, who mind their own business and ...
( Category: Modern May 6,2019 )
Walt Whitman Speaks by Walt Whitman
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Walt Whitman

The objections to me are the objections made to all men who choose to go their own road—make their own choice of methods. When once I am convinced I never ...
( Category: Modern May 3,2019 )
A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela Regis

13 CIVIL CONTRACTS Georgette Heyer Beginning in 1921, Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) wrote one and sometimes two historical romance novels per year until her death in 1974. A 19§4 survey taken ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 3,2019 )
Hamlet Sparknotes by Shakespearre SparkNotes
mobi |eng | 2007-05-15 | Author:Shakespearre SparkNotes [SparkNotes, Shakespearre]

Brought to you in Copyright 2007, 2002 by SparkNotes association with: Act IV, scenes i–ii Summary: Act IV, scene i Frantic after her confrontation with Hamlet, Gertrude hurries to Claudius, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 1,2019 )
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence by Edward L. Goldberg
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Edward L. Goldberg [Goldberg, Edward L.]

Fire at the Fair ‘We arrived in Ferrara early this morning, which is Tuesday, but we didn’t find the ambassador. So, we can expect him to appear this evening, on ...
( Category: Renaissance April 30,2019 )

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