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Author : Ernest Edward Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Legend written by Ernest Edward Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. E. Holmes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330358856
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (588 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Legend written by E. E. Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Praise of Legend The following pages were written as articles for a popular monthly magazine - The Sign. They are reprinted here, with a few omissions and additions, in the hope that Sign readers may like to have them in a little volume, and may, perhaps, care to pass them on to others. The writer's thanks are due to many lovers of legend, more especially to one who writes very beautifully in prose and poem under the name of "A child of Mary." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : E. E. Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book In praise of legend written by E. E. Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. R. Hope Moncrieff
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483612334
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Classic Myth and Legend (Classic Reprint) written by A. R. Hope Moncrieff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Classic Myth and Legend Naught so tedious as a twice-told tale remarked one eminent hero of ancient fiction; but these stories, though so often told, in such varied forms, may still bear retelling for readers un acquainted with the original versions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Marie Lu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110154595X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Legend written by Marie Lu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Legend doesn't merely survive the hype, it deserves it." From the New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.
Author : Gordon Hall Gerould
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483966826
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Saints' Legends (Classic Reprint) written by Gordon Hall Gerould and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Saints' Legends Furthermore, it has required a good deal of patience to disentangle what I can only describe as the snarl of legends from the later Middle Ages. Here, again, other scholars have given me little help, though I must grate fully acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Horstmann, who by his indomitable zeal in editing texts has done more than any other one man to make my study possible. His work has never been recognized at its true worth, nor has. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : W. Lewis Jones
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331558456
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)
Download or read book King Arthur in History and Legend (Classic Reprint) written by W. Lewis Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from King Arthur in History and Legend Clear and summary a form as possible, the origin and growth of King Arthur's historical and literary renown, and follows, largely, the lines of a chapter contributed by me to the first volume of The Cambridge History of English Literature. Although I have had, necessarily, to refer to much literary matter which is purely mythological, I have not sought to give any account of the specula tions of those who in our own time have endeavoured to reconstruct and interpret the myths and beliefs of pre-historic Celtic heathendom. Nor have I made more than the briefest allusion to the subsidiary legends which, mainly through the agency of French romantic scribes, came to be associated with Arthur's name, and 'to be included in the matter of Britain as it emerged out of the age of high romance. The book deals, all but exclusively, with King Arthur himself, as he is known to chroniclers, romancers and poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Michael Cyprian O'Byrne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483980389
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book A Legend of St. Patrick, Apostle of Erin (Classic Reprint) written by Michael Cyprian O'Byrne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Legend of St. Patrick, Apostle of Erin And seeing the line dangling, Guessed his Saintship was angling, Aimed a blow at his skull which he happened to miss, And got an immersion Through over exertion, Falling into the lake with a terrible hiss. Ho, ho! Cried Saint Patrick, Had I received that lick, 'twould have hashed all my mutton, - Anathema sis! Be that as it may, 'twas a thundering knock Tempted Patrick to say, at eleven o'clock, Who the devil is there? Though the saint dld not swear, But did, as the French say, the very contraire, For he muttered a blessing While hurriedly dressing, And then, With serenity worthy all praise, He sought to discover his Bryant and May's, Then a recent invention, but lately brought over By a sailor named Murphy who traded to Dover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Mazie V. Caruthers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333277444
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (774 download)
Download or read book The Legend of the Holy Thorn written by Mazie V. Caruthers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Legend of the Holy Thorn: And Other Poems Ame Saint Joseph and his twelve To the shores of Britain; chill On the crest of weary-all Hill, (so the legend's written.) Welcome none the rude folk gave (oh, the Day so dreary.) Blind their eyes, which could not see That an holy man was he, Homeless, faint and weary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Helen de Vere Beauclerk
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267203925
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Tale of Igor written by Helen de Vere Beauclerk and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tale of Igor: Adapted From the Old Russian Legend Mstislav the Brave who put Rededia to the sword before the tents of Kassog; a song again to Roman, the beauteous son of Svyatoslav. But Boyan, brethren, did not in truth send forth falcons to pursue a flock of swans but with magic fingers he would touch the chords which of themselves would chant the princes' praise in sonorous music. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0805241132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah written by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1992-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel. The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people -- the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today. Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash -- for their anthology. Loosely translated as "legends", Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius. The arrangement of this compendium reflects the theological concerns of the Rabbinic sages: the role of Israel and the nations; God, good and evil; human relations; the world of nature; and the art of healing. Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry. "Whatever the imagination can invent is found in the Aggadah," wrote the historian Leopold Zunz, "its purpose always being to teach man the ways of God." The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah, now available in william Braude's superbly annotated translation, enables modern Jews to experience firsthand the richness and excitement of their cultural inheritance.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marie Delcourt
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611863512
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror written by Marie Delcourt and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Delcourt’s brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert’s influential Oidipus (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later. Delcourt studies the legend in its various aspects, six episodes that have equal weight and that stress the same themes: greatness, conquest, domination, the right to rule—all of them bound up with the idea of kingship. Together they form the biography of a Theban hero, the fullest account that has come down to us about the prehistory of sovereign power among the ancient Greeks. Delcourt does not suppose that Oedipus, or indeed any other Greek hero, was a historical figure. The personality familiar to us from the plays of the tragedians of the fifth century—our oldest source, and a very late one—was the result of their extraordinary artistry in linking together themes rooted in very ancient social and religious rites that in the interval had come to describe the feats of Oedipus, then his life, and finally his character. It was in order to explain these rites, whose meaning had ceased to be understood, that myths and legends were invented in the first place. Oedipus, Delcourt argues, is the archetype of all heroes of essentially (if not exclusively) ritual origin, whose acts were prior to their person. This is a very different— and far more complex—Oedipus than the one rather implausibly imagined by Freud. More generally, the origin and transmission of the Oedipus legend tells us a great deal about the strength and persistence of public memories in prehistoric societies.
Author : John Lardner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803230478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The John Lardner Reader written by John Lardner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America’s press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The brilliant W. C. Heinz called Lardner “the best of us.” This book shows why. Lardner applied his singular touch not only to his era’s icons—Joe Louis, Ted Williams, Satchel Paige—but to the scamps, eccentrics, hustlers, and con men in the shadow of sports. Whether in snappy columns or leisurely magazine pieces, Lardner held sport of every description up to the light, forever changing the way people wrote, read, and thought about their heroes, from superstars to scrappers. These forty-nine pieces represent sportswriting at the top of its game. Purchase the audio edition.
Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736406320
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. Inspired by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli's De Triumpho Stultitiae, it is a satirical attack on superstitions and other traditions of European society as well as on the western Church. Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's estate in Bucklersbury. In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and played an important role in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation.
Author : Alexander Fury
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614288100
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Chanel: The Impossible Collection written by Alexander Fury and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a literary museum exhibition, a curated selection of 100 iconic and signature looks of the house of Chanel, from the timeless Little Black Dress to the impeccably simple tweed suit, the apothecary-style perfume bottle, two-tone pumps, abundant strands of faux pearls and stones, and diamond-quilted leather handbag, from Mademoiselle’s revolutionary designs to Karl Lagerfeld’s unexpected and even irreverent variations on her original codes.
Author : Jared E. Alcantara
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498226094
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Learning from a Legend written by Jared E. Alcantara and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2015, America's last pulpit prince died. When Gardner C. Taylor (1918-2015), former senior pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, departed this life at the age of ninety-six, the United States lost one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, not enough preachers today know his name or why his preaching can enrich and bless the church today. Learning from a Legend: What Gardner C. Taylor Can Teach Us about Preaching provides Christian preachers with much-needed lessons, wisdom, and insights from Dr. Taylor, the dean of American preaching. It highlights six lessons that Dr. Taylor can teach preachers in the twenty-first century about pain, redemption, eloquence, apprenticeship, context, and holiness. Not only did Dr. Taylor teach and preach these lessons, he lived them. Those wanting to learn more about Dr. Taylor's preaching while also sharpening their own preaching ought to read this book.
