Anthologies
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

I How bored I am with the tetrameter, Used by everyone, every schoolboy rhymer. I’ve long been drawn to the pentameter, And thinking I would try ottava rima. I’m confident, ...
( Category: Russian April 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Victoria Zackheim [Zackheim, Victoria]

I DON’T KNOW THIS WORD – Rachel Howzell Hall – I WAS THREE YEARS INTO MY THIRTIES, AND I KNEW LOTS of words. Elysian. Lollygag. Bloviate. Catawampus. But then I ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-26 | Author:Marcia Muller

* * * Laura slipped into the shadow of an evergreen and gazed at the people on the terrace. She’d read the stories about Evelyn Marlow’s fall, seen the photos ...
( Category: Anthologies April 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 1954-04-18 | Author:William Harvey

THE TALE OF KAFUR THE BLACK EUNUCH KNOW, my friends, that when no more than eight years of age I had already cultivated a remarkable habit of telling one big ...
( Category: Short Stories April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-10 | Author:Anonymous & Malcolm C. Lyons & Ursula Lyons & Robert Irwin

What is not to happen will never happen by a trick, While that which is to happen will take place, And what is fated comes at its own time, Although ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-11 | Author:Anonymous & Ursula Lyons & Robert Irwin

Nights 535 to 554 Morning now dawned and Shahrazad broke off from what she had been allowed to say. Then, when it was the five hundred and thirty-fifth night, SHE ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Ibn Fadlan [Ibn Fadlān]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Michael Grant

THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Horace

EPISTLE 16 After describing his Sabine estate, Horace reflects on the nature of goodness. My dear Quinctius, to save you asking about my farm – whether it feeds its master ...
( Category: Satire April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox & Bernard Knox

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 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Medieval Writings on Secular Women (Penguin Classics) [Retail]

62. A Wife Defends the Property Rights of herself and her Husband, Barcelona, 17 October 987 This document is written against the background of the aftermath of Al-Mansur’s sacking of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Thomas Aquinas

17. Definitions of Soul. On Aristotle’s De anima, 2, 1–3(1268) It was while he was still teaching at Santa Sabina in Rome that Thomas Aquinas wrote his commentary on Aristotle’s ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Fadlan, Ibn [Fadlan, Ibn]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Grant, Michael [Grant, Michael]

THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )