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Jason and the Argonauts (Penguin Classics) by Apollonius of Rhodes
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Apollonius of Rhodes

BOOK 4 Now Zeus’ daughter, deathless Muse, describe for me the Colchian maiden’s wiles and worries. The mind within me spins in speechlessness, wondering whether I should call the impulse ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Civil War (Penguin Classics) by Lucan
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
azw3 |eng | 2006-01-25 | Author:Euripides

Her entreaties and appeals to her father, and her maiden’s years – in their love for battle the officers set this at naught; her father after praying gave an order ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Fragments (Penguin Classics) by Heraclitus
azw3 |eng | 2003-10-27 | Author:Heraclitus

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
azw3, pdf |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles

OEDIPUS: . But why? If I’m their son—Merope, Polybus? MESSENGER: Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood. OEDIPUS: What are you saying—Po!ybus was not my father? MESSENGER: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Nibelungenlied (Classics) by Unknown
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO How Dancwart slew Bloedelin BLOEDELIN’s stalwarts were all in readiness and they set out with a thousand hauberks and came to where Dancwart sat at table with the ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology April 19,2020 )
The Romance of Tristan (Classics) by Beroul
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-30 | Author:Beroul

11 THE LOVE POTION MY lords, you have heard of the wine they drank which caused them to suffer greatly for so long. But you do not know, I think, ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
The Song of Roland (Classics) by Glyn Burgess
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Glyn Burgess

171 Roland feels that he has lost his sight; He rises to his feet, exerting all his strength. All the colour has drained from his face. [2300] Before him lies ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
Orlando Furioso: pt. 2 by Ariosto Ludovico
azw3 |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

48 ‘A cavalier arrived, as it befell, From the Byzantine court, and in his train There rode a lady who, as I heard tell, Drew the admiring glances of all ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
Quando eravamo giovani by Charles Bukowski
epub, mobi, azw3 |ita | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Bukowski [Charles Bukowski]

madman while being checked into the L.A. City jail (I was still a bit drunk) there was a crowd of prisoners waiting and nobody noticed me smoking a cigarette until ...
( Category: Poetry April 16,2020 )
Geoffrey Chaucer by David Wallace
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:David Wallace [Wallace, David]

Genre: no genre Sixteenth-century editors of Chaucer needed to represent him as at once strange and familiar, foreign and one of us. He is one of us as an Englishman, ...
( Category: Medieval April 16,2020 )
The Rámáyan of Válmíki by Valmiki
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Valmiki [Valmiki]

Canto LVII. Sítá Comforted. Soon as the fiend had set her down Within his home in Lanká's town Triumph and joy filled Indra's breast, Whom thus the Eternal Sire addressed: ...
( Category: History April 16,2020 )
The Evening Sun by David Lehman
epub |eng | 2002-04-15 | Author:David Lehman

JULY 7 The greatest genius in the history of American marketing is the guy who added the word “repeat” to the directions on the back of the shampoo bottle you ...
( Category: Poetry April 14,2020 )
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Rivers Isabel;
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Rivers, Isabel;

GOOD WORKS 14 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the ...
( Category: Renaissance April 14,2020 )
Antologia di Spoon River by Edgar Lee Masters
epub, azw3 |ita | 2017-04-17 | Author:Edgar Lee Masters [Sconosciuto]

Jim Brown While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are For singing Turkey in the straw or There is ...
( Category: United States April 13,2020 )

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