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The Riddle and the Knight

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146680713X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue/part historical mystery about the most famous traveler--and chronicler-- in medieval Europe. Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe. Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his exploits and adventures provided inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats. By the nineteenth century however, his claims were largely discredited by academics. Giles Milton set off in the footsteps of Mandeville, in order to test his amazing claims, and to restore Mandeville to his rightful place in the literature of exploration. "Erudite, witty and adventurous" (The Mail on Sunday), The Riddle and the Knight is a brilliant piece of detective work.

Riddle and the Knight

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756774400
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1322, Sir John Mandeville left England to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later he returned, claiming not only to have visited the Holy Land but also to have traveled to India, China, Tibet and Java. His book -- "The Travels" -- lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his adventures provided inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Swift. Yet by the 19th cent., he was all but ignored by scholars, and his descriptions of monsters and strange peoples were discredited. Intrigued by Mandeville, Milton set off in his footsteps in order to test his amazing claims and to attempt to solve the riddle of the knight. This brilliant piece of detective work restores Mandeville to his rightful place in the history of lit. and exploration. Illus.

The Riddle and the Knight

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riddle Me This, Batman!

Author : Kevin K. Durand
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487313
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Riddle Me This, Batman! written by Kevin K. Durand and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic novels, view motion pictures, and analyze the motifs of the Hero, the Anti-Hero and the Villain. He has also captured the scholarly imagination, telling us much about our society and ourselves. These essays examine how Batman is both the canvas on which our cultural identity is painted, and the Eternal Other that informs our own journeys of understanding. Questions relating to a wide range of disciplines--philosophy, literature, psychology, pop culture, and more--are thoroughly and entertainingly explored, in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans of the Caped Crusader alike.

The Knight's Riddle: What Women Want Most

Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher : Five Star
ISBN 13 : 9781432832032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Knight's Riddle: What Women Want Most written by Jay Ruud and published by Five Star. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After discovering that Lady Rosemounde has become engaged to a Knight of the Round Table who has been accused of rape, squire Gildas of Cornwall enlists the help of Merlin and Queen Guenevere to help prove the man's innocence and find the real culprit.

Modern Arthurian Literature

Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134816979
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Modern Arthurian Literature written by Alan Lupack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. This is a collection of works around the legend of King Arthur from both English and American sources. They range from the sixteenth century to the 1980s and includes authors such as Spenser, Swift, Fielding, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris, Carr, Hawthorne, Pyle, Richard Wilbur and Wendy M. Mnookin.

The Riddle of Scheherazade

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307819833
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of Scheherazade written by Raymond Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade’s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called “coercive” logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans—from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist.

The Riddle Horse

Author : Mark Summers
Publisher : Creative Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781568462912
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Riddle Horse written by Mark Summers and published by Creative Editions. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gentle riddle of a tale, a well-loved horse recounts its adventures and various riders throughout the long years of its curiously restricted yet imaginatively rich life.

Knights of the Round Table

Author : Gwen Rowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Knights of the Round Table written by Gwen Rowley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Author : Sir John Mandeville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx

Author : Joe Todd-Stanton
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1912497492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx by : Joe Todd-Stanton

Download or read book Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx written by Joe Todd-Stanton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will love this exciting excavation of ancient Egyptian myths as they follow along with the clever Marcy on a quest to save her dad from the belly of the sphinx! Many years have passed since the tale of Arthur and the Golden Rope, and Arthur is now a world-famous adventurer. If only his daughter Marcy shared his enthusiasm for exploration... Determined to bring out Marcy's adventurous side, Arthur sets off to Egypt to bring back the legendary Book of Thoth. When Arthur doesn't return, Marcy must follow in his footsteps. Can she overcome her fears and rescue her father from the clutches of the great Sphinx?

Enigmas and Riddles in Literature

Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521855101
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Enigmas and Riddles in Literature written by Eleanor Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and original study on how enigmas and riddles work in literature.

The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria

Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Knight's Riddle

Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645995463
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Knight's Riddle written by Jay Ruud and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his beloved Lady Rosemounde's new fiancé is accused of a vicious crime, Gildas of Cornwall must enlist the aid of his old mentor, Merlin, to prove the innocence of the man he feels has stolen his only love.

The Curious History of the Riddle

Author : Marcel Danesi Ph.D.
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
ISBN 13 : 1577151984
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Curious History of the Riddle written by Marcel Danesi Ph.D. and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious History of the Riddle investigates the fascinating origin and history of the riddle, from the very first riddle (the Riddle of the Sphinx) to the twenty-first century, with riddles found in pop culture, including movies (Us), television shows (Game of Thrones) video games, and escape rooms. Riddles are ageless, timeless, and so common that we hardly ever reflect upon what they are and how they originated. Most importantly, their invention helped in the development of lateral thinking, the form of thinking that is the foundation of all kinds of discoveries, from mathematics to science and beyond. In The Curious History of the Riddle, puzzle expert Marcel Danesi delves deep into the riddle's origin and history and covers these fascinating topics: 1. The Riddle of the Sphinx: Origins, Legends, Patterns What creature walks on all fours at dawn, two at midday, and three at twilight? (answer: man) 2. The Greek Anthology and the Exeter Book: Medieval Views and Uses of Riddles This chapter looks at the spread of the riddle in recreational and educational contexts. 3. The Merry Book of Riddles: Riddles in the Renaissance By the late Renaissance, riddles were being tailored more and more to produce humorous or whimsical effects. 4. Enigmas, Charades, and Conundrums: Riddles from the 1600s to the Twentieth Century After the Renaissance, riddles had become virtually every literate European person’s favorite form of recreation, and were included as regular features of many newspapers and periodicals 5. The Twentieth Century: Riddles as Children’s Literature In the twentieth century, riddles became specialized for children, spreading throughout children’s literature and educational manuals. 6. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Riddles Go to the Movies and Online In this chapter, the focus is on riddles in various entertainment media, from best-selling novels such as Harry Potter, to movies, such as the Batman series. 7. Connections: Riddles and Rebuses This chapter explores the structure of rebuses as visual riddles, connecting them historically. Part history book, part puzzle book, The Curious History of the Riddle is fully illustrated with over 200 riddles interspersed throughout the text for solving.

What is the Name of this Book?

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Dover Math Games & Puzzles
ISBN 13 : 9780486481982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book What is the Name of this Book? written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Dover Math Games & Puzzles. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated mathematician presents more than 200 increasingly complex problems that delve into Gödel's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions.

Forever Undecided

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307962466
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Forever Undecided written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems. With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports us once again to that magical island where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie. Here we meet a new and amazing array of characters, visitors to the island, seeking to determine the natives’ identities. Among them: the census-taker McGregor; a philosophical-logician in search of his flighty bird-wife, Oona; and a regiment of Reasoners (timid ones, normal ones, conceited, modest, and peculiar ones) armed with the rules of propositional logic (if X is true, then so is Y). By following the Reasoners through brain-tingling exercises and adventures—including journeys into the “other possible worlds” of Kripke semantics—even the most illogical of us come to understand Gödel’s two great theorems on incompleteness and undecidability, some of their philosophical and mathematical implications, and why we, like Gödel himself, must remain Forever Undecided!