Anthologies
azw3 |eng | 2007-04-25 | Author:Plautus

A Three-Dollar Day (TRINUMMUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO A THREE-DOLLAR DAY THE Prologue informs us that this play is derived from the Greek of Philemon, and there are reasons for believing ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-09-24 | 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 )
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 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Cicero

Thus nature favours nothing solitary, but always inclines towards some kind of assistance, which the dearest friend provides in the most agreeable way. Yet even though this same nature communicates ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
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 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-06-24 | Author:Aquinas, Thomas [Aquinas, Thomas]

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 | 2013-12-04 | Author:Kenko & Chomei

which the accompanying preface states was written of the withered festival aoi leaves left in the reed blinds surrounding the inner chamber. Another preface from an old poem goes, ‘Sent ...
( Category: Eastern April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Margaret Weis [Weis, Margaret]

Epilogue. A Road Out of Xak Faoleen Sharmaen: If peace has triumphed by my plans, The fault is woman’s and is man’s, Since once the wars of hearts begin, True ...
( Category: Anthologies April 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Margaret Weis [Weis, Margaret]

Sturm, Lady Ilys, and Carin were taken to an airy suite of rooms on the east side of the palace. There, amid billowing sheets of gauze, the smell of incense, ...
( Category: Anthologies April 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-10 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

( Category: Short Stories April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-09 | Author:Kate Morton

( Category: Historical Thrillers April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-02 | Author:Donald Maass [Maass, Donald]

Sidekicks and Narrators It is hard, now, to imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby told from the point of view of Gatsby. The narrator, Nick Carraway, is indelibly a ...
( Category: Anthologies April 10,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-12-26 | Author:Richard Matheson

( Category: Westerns April 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Richard Matheson

( Category: Vampires April 7,2020 )