Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using o...
Author: N/A Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. A rich fabric of fact and fancy, Beowulf is the ...
Author: Anonymus Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem composed around 1100 AD. At 3,183 lines, the poem is notable for its length. The poem is untitled in the manuscript, but has been known as Beowulf since the ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Rom...
Author: Dante Alighieri Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This epic poem was written between 1308 and 1321. It is divided into three sections; the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradise. The Roman poet Virgil leads Dante through the first two sections. Beatric...
Author: Homer, Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How Agamemnon and Achilles fell out at the siege of Troy; and Achilles withdrew himself from battle, and won from Zeus a pledge that his wrong should be avenged on Agamemnon and the Achaians. ...
Author: Miller, Paul Allen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brimming with notes, essays and more, this is a fully loaded resource giving an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology. A hugely student -friendly book and a valuable fund of knowle...
Author: Lindheim, Sara Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the Heroides, the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks fifteen abandoned heroines from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind....
Description: The brilliant historical epic "Metamorphoses" is Ovid's magnum opus. He has brilliantly presented a vast canvas which offers a multitude of legendary and mythical figures; these are linked together by...
Description: THE GROUP of poems offered in this volume comprises practically all the more considerable (non-Skaldic) verse material not in the Edda. Indeed, it has been subtitled "the most important non-skaldic ve...
Author: Rimell, Victoria Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exem...
Author: Various Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This title contains, The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Maggie's Visit to Oxford and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll, Poems by Oscar Wilde, American Poetry, 1922 by Amy Lowell, A Selection from the Poet...
Author: Miller, Paul Allen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly...
Author: Homer Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Samuel Butler's prose translation of the ancient Greek epic poem The Iliad into English was published in 1898. It takes place at the end of a 10-year war and tells how Achilles's wrath brought about t...
Author: Homer Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: One of the greatest ancient Greek epic poems, "Iliad" is dated to have been written some time before the eighth century B.C. Revolving around the events of the tenth and last year of siege of the city...
Author: Homer, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After fighting in the lengthy Trojan war, Ulysses begins his trip back home. The Journey lasted ten years, After these ten years Ulysses and his men experience incredible ventures trying to get home s...
Author: Gale, Monica R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a...
Author: Juyi, Bo Publisher: Axios Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Tang Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese poetry, and Bo Juyi is generally acclaimed as one of China's greatest poets. He wrote over 2,800 poems, which he had copied and distributed to ensure the...
Author: N/A Publisher: Abela Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: THE GROUP of poems offered in this volume comprises practically all the more considerable (non-Skaldic) verse material not in the Edda. Indeed, it has been subtitled "the most important non-skaldic ve...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly tr...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly tr...
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