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Author : Ed Sanders
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Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War written by Ed Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major work from a legend of Beat poetry, Yippee politics, and rock 'n' roll.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Epic Poems Retold written by David Bruce and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Epic Poems Retold" by David Bruce is a captivating retelling of the timeless tales surrounding the legendary conflict of the Trojan War and its far-reaching consequences. Drawing from ancient sources such as Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," as well as other classical works, Bruce weaves together a rich tapestry of myths, heroes, and gods to create a compelling narrative that brings the ancient world to life. Through vivid prose and meticulous attention to detail, Bruce guides readers through the epic events of the Trojan War, from the famed duel between Achilles and Hector to the cunning stratagems of Odysseus and the tragic fall of Troy. Along the way, he introduces readers to a host of unforgettable characters, from the valorous warriors to the cunning goddesses, each with their own motivations and desires. But Bruce's narrative doesn't end with the fall of Troy; instead, he explores the aftermath of the war and its impact on the heroes and heroines who survived. From the trials of Odysseus as he struggles to find his way home to the tragic fate of the Trojan women, Bruce delves deep into the human drama and emotional resonance of these timeless stories, revealing the enduring power of myth to illuminate the human condition.
Author : Homer
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Vandiver
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199542740
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Stand in the Trench, Achilles written by Elizabeth Vandiver and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Author : Jennie Skerl
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942954964
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)
Download or read book In the Rebel Cafe written by Jennie Skerl and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with Ed Sanders with a critical introduction to Sanders’s life and work, a chronology of Sanders’s career, a bibliography of his publications, and a discography of the Fugs and Sanders albums. The interviews constitute a career biography of Sanders as a writer, musician, and activist.
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Total Pages : 796 pages
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Author : William Patton
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Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Cottage Bible and Family Expositor written by William Patton and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28593 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book World's Greatest Classics in One Volume written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 28593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'World's Greatest Classics in One Volume' encompasses an unparalleled assembly of literary geniuses, spanning from ancient to modern times. This anthology curates a mosaic of narratives, philosophies, and poetic expressions that have shaped and reflected societies through centuries. The collection boasts a tapestry of literary styles, from the tragic to the comedic, the epic to the intimate, enveloping the reader in a journey through the human condition as seen by the likes of Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoyevsky, and Whitman, among others. It highlights the diversity and significance of these works, threading together the universal themes of love, conflict, ambition, and identity across different cultures and epochs, offering a kaleidoscope of human experience. The contributors to this volume are not only titans in the literary world but also pivotal figures who have contributed significantly to various intellectual movements, from the Enlightenment to Romanticism, and Modernism to the Harlem Renaissance. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their writing, spanning continents and centuries, reflecting a rich tapestry of global history and thought. The anthology serves as a confluence where the East meets the West, tradition confronts modernity, and narrative innovation interlaces with timeless truths, providing a pluralistic platform that celebrates the breadth of human creativity. 'Readers are invited to delve into the 'World's Greatest Classics in One Volume' not just as a means of literary exploration but as an enriching journey through the annals of human thought and expression. This collection is perfect for those seeking to immerse themselves in the cornerstone texts of global literature, offering a unique opportunity to engage with the minds that have perennially inspired, disturbed, and transformed the world. For students, educators, and lifelong learners, this anthology promises a comprehensive and insightful compendium that fosters appreciation, critical reflection, and an enduring dialogue between the past and present.
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Total Pages : 1510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Comprehensive Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20095 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book 90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.2) written by Charles Dickens and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 20095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Dubliners (James Joyce) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford) Howards End (E. M. Forster) Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Balzac) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Anne of Green Gables Series (L. M. Montgomery) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) Phantastes (George MacDonald) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) Kama Sutra The Divine Comedy (Dante) The Rise of Silas Lapham (William Dean Howells) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) Red and the Black (Stendhal) Rob Roy (Sir Walter Scott) Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope) Germinal (Emile Zola) The Rider on the White Horse (Theodor Storm) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) My Antonia (Willa Cather) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis) Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy) The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) The Woman in White (Willkie Collins) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe) Dracula (Bram Stoker) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lewis Wallace) Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving) The Prince (Machiavelli) The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley) The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence) Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Nikolai Leskov) 2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut) The Power Of Concentration (William Walker Atkinson) Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (Émile Coué)
Author : Terence Diggory
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140665
Total Pages : 1921 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets written by Terence Diggory and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of poets associated with the New York Schools of the early twentieth century.
Author : Paul Hawkes
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 139846287X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Il-i-ad That Lad written by Paul Hawkes and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Long ago in a far distant and different – though maybe not so – world, 1,250BCE, yet-to-be Greeks tried to retake that world’s most beautiful woman, Helen of Troy, ‘the face that launched a 1,000 ships’ (actually 1,034). She’d been seduced/abducted by Paris, the Trojan prince. If she existed she may have been an excuse for colonial conquest, like the non-existent ‘weapons of mass destruction’ of Iraq 2003, as Troy was a key trading centre. Or the war may have been due to widespread famine, thus mass migration in the Med. This innovative take on Homer’s ancient epic Iliad uses a stream-of-consciousness style within a traditional ten-syllable rhyming structure. There are very graphic descriptions of one of our bloodiest wars, but also magic, as the god(desse)s interweave throughout, dispensing miracles for their favourites, nobbling rivals. Zeus, on Mount Olympus, plays chess master, pulling the strings, alongside Fate. And there are wonderful similes from the natural world. Given new resonance by the continuing war in Ukraine, Troy’s timeless lessons are unfortunately likely to become more, not less, relevant with increasing competition for shrinking resources, and now that the crises of global heating and nuclear Armageddon threaten practically all life on the planet. The futility of war and destruction has always been humankind’s Achilles Heel! The ancient Greek earth-mother goddess GAIA has largely become (G)reed, (A)rrogance), (I)gnorance, (A)ggression. The power-brokers of our brave new world are descendants of those peoples past – do we have enough of whatever wisdom they had to survive? If you like Greek mythology or history-fantasy or similar, you’ll love this modern twist on a tale of long ago...
Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003829775
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Simone Weil: Basic Writings written by Simone Weil and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher, factory and farm labourer, a political activist at home and abroad, a loving friend, daughter and sister—all these manifest a life devoted to the good in its many forms. Her writings explore the good open to us and the various routes to it, spanning philosophy, politics, science and spirituality. While she saw her vocation primarily as a philosopher—examining questions concerning human faculties, action and thought, the limits of language and our need of mediation, suffering and beauty for contact with reality—her startlingly original thought is often obscured by her having been too readily categorized as a Christian mystic. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an expertly edited anthology of Weil’s most important writings, presenting her philosophy as it relates to the architecture of human nature, politics, work, necessity, beauty, goodness and God. Working from the definitive French edition of Weil’s complete writings, D. K. Levy and Marina Barabas have translated the essays anew or for the first time, adding important notes and references absent from existing English language editions of Weil’s work. Following an extensive introduction that gives an overview of Weil's life and thought, each part opens with a short preface situating the selected essays within Weil’s oeuvre. Simone Weil: Basic Writings provides an excellent entry point to Weil’s philosophy, as well as a reference for students and scholars of Weil's thought in philosophy and related disciplines.
Author : Connor Christopher Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000800148
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Battle Rhetoric of Crusade and Holy War, c. 1099–c. 1222 written by Connor Christopher Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative of supposed brutality and amorality of warfare in this period--instead focusing on the moral and didactic concerns surrounding warfare and violence with which medieval authors wrestled. The battle oration, a rousing harangue exhorting warriors to deeds of valour, has been regarded as a significant aspect of warfare since the age of Xenophon, and has continued to influence conceptions of campaigning and combat to the present day. While its cultural and chronological pervasiveness attests to the power of this trope, scholarly engagement with the literary phenomenon of the pre-battle speech has been limited. Moreover, previous work on medieval battle rhetoric has only served to reinforce the supposed brutality and amorality of warfare in this period, highlighting appeals to martial prowess, a hatred for ‘the enemy’ and promises of wealth and glory. This book, through an examination of Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and the decades that followed, challenges this understanding and illuminates the moral and didactic concerns surrounding warfare and violence with which medieval authors wrestled. Furthermore, while battle orations form a clear mechanism by which the fledgling crusading movement could be explored ideologically, this comparative study reveals how non-crusading warfare in this period was also being reconceptualised in light of changing ideas about just war, authority and righteousness in Christian society. This volume is perfect for researchers, students and scholars alike interested in medieval history and military studies.
Author : John D. Martin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 166552250X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Homer's Iliad: The Real Story written by John D. Martin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the nearly three millennia since its creation, the Iliad's Real Story has gone undiscovered. Homer, a blind poet as antiquity believed him to be, created a powerful war story which must have enthralled his listening audiences. But this story concealed another one, far grander in design, and immensely more clever in execution, which can be discovered only by careful examination of the written text. Living in an age where literacy was minimal, Homer created this story for the gods, and undoubtedly never expected any mortal to understand it. Homer's imaginative fantasy radically undermines traditional Trojan War mythology, and exposes the speciousness of war's glory, the folly of the warriors who (supposedly) fight for it, and the amorality of the gods who help them do so. Homer's great war poem, great indeed, war poem indeed, is in its depths antiwar. In piecing together the Iliad's web of secret plans, deeply hidden motives, and subtle lies and deceptions, and in the process identifying and discarding post-Homeric corruptions to the text, we will find an Iliad which is not a prelude to Achilles' glorious early death and the Fall of Troy, but the opposite. In a concealed ending, towards which the entire story has been leading, Homer's own words will tell us how Achilles, as supplicated by Priam, chooses a long life without renown, and goes home. The Greek army, unwilling to fight without its greatest warrior, leaves also, sparing peaceful, holy Troy, Zeus’ favorite city and best hope for mankind. Homer tells this story with a brilliance that is almost unimaginable, until one actually encounters it. The Real Iliad is an immense intellectual challenge and an inexhaustible source of surprises. Far from a formalistically "heroic" epic, as has long been thought, it is an imaginative expression of the full creative powers of Western antiquity's greatest author.
Author : Mary Renault
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480432377
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Persian Boy written by Mary Renault and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times–bestselling novel of the ancient king of Macedon and his lover by the author Hilary Mantel calls “a shining light.” The Persian Boy centers on the most tempestuous years of Alexander the Great’s life, as seen through the eyes of his lover and most faithful attendant, Bagoas. When Bagoas is very young, his father is murdered and he is sold as a slave to King Darius of Persia. Then, when Alexander conquers the land, he is given Bagoas as a gift, and the boy is besotted. This passion comes at a time when much is at stake—Alexander has two wives, conflicts are ablaze, and plots on the Macedon king’s life abound. The result is a riveting account of a great conqueror’s years of triumph and, ultimately, heartbreak. The Persian Boy is the second volume of the Novels of Alexander the Great trilogy, which also includes Fire from Heaven and Funeral Games. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author. “Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us.” —Hilary Mantel
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Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Pictorial Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
