Regional & Cultural
mobi |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:Anonymous

XXIII ’MID the battle-gear saw he a blade triumphant, old-sword of Eotens, with edge of proof, warriors’ heirloom, weapon unmatched, - save only ’twas more than other men to bandy-of-battle ...
( Category: Medieval June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Shippey, Tom [Shippey, Tom]

The old stone, i.e. the ruin = the remains of an earlier, heathen, oral poetry which the Beowulf-poet might have known about The house the man lives in, also partly ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-06-28 | Author:Shippey, Tom [Shippey, Tom]

furu trikila fiari at kuli [They] fared like bold men far for gold ok a:ustarla arni kafu and in the east gave [food] to the eagle, tuu sunar:la at sirk:lan:ti: ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-02 | Author:Sturluson, Snorri [Sturluson, Snorri]

They who broke the peace Oft offered gold to buy themselves From punishment. But the great- minded Ruler took no fines thereof. The heads of these men he bade Be ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Bek-Pedersen, Karen [Bek-Pedersen, Karen]

3.4 Summary: Fate Comes from the Well In this chapter, answers have been sought to two major questions: what can be made of the stereotypical idea that there are three ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Simone Caroti

Excession and Inversions The first four Culture books were space operas of the planet-focused persuasion. The stories featured plenty of ships and plenty of Minds inside them, but the majority ...
( Category: European June 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-03-29 | Author:Atwood, Margaret [Atwood, Margaret]

The Martha Graham Academy was named after some gory old dance goddess of the twentieth century who’d apparently mowed quite a swath in her day. There was a gruesome statue ...
( Category: United States June 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-02 | Author:Koichi Haga;

Overlapping Ancient and Contemporary Japan In 2016, Svetlana Alexievich, a Nobel laureate, a Belarusian journalist and a non-fiction writer, visited Fukushima. She mentioned to the media that after talking with ...
( Category: Asian June 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:James Patterson & Jack Patterson & James Madsen [Patterson, James & Patterson, Jack & Madsen, James]

Why do they call this a catwalk? Careful, don’t waddle too close to the edge! Jackson Haddock Fish Stick What birdbrain came up with this? Of all the icebergs in ...
( Category: Marine Life May 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

4 In the Dark Where had he gone running to? The answer was simple: ‘Where could she be, but at the house of Fyodor Pavlovich? From Samsonov’s house she must ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 29,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kerry Driscoll

WILLIAM F. CODY COMES TO TOWN The letter, which arrived at Quarry Farm on 8 September, reads, Samuel L. Clemens, Esq. Dear Sir, I should be pleased to see you ...
( Category: United States May 29,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-12-22 | Author:Andrews, Walter G. & Kalpakli, Mehmet [Andrews, Walter G.]

She [‘Ayişe] worked at every genre of poetry and tested her talent on each of them. She has gazels and mu‘amma [enigmas], kasides [panegyrics] and mesnevis [rhyming couplets]. She has ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Thornbury, Emily V. [Thornbury, Emily V.]

Home renovations: Christ and Satan ‘Liber II’ in Junius XI seems something of an afterthought. The first 212 pages, containing Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, were written by one scribe in ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nam Le [Le, Nam]

PATRIA There he is, in his fat golden tie, accepting the honour of his lifetime (so far). In his steady, high-pitched voice, David Malouf delivers his Neustadt Lecture at the ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Oscar Wilde

Eloquence is a beautiful thing, but rhetoric ruins many a critic … —“Ben Jonson” … I think that the first duty of an art critic is to hold his tongue ...
( Category: European May 25,2019 )