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The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray, who is Basils ultimate muse. After hearing Lord Henrys world view, Dorian begins to think beauty is the only worthwhile aspect of life. He wishes that the portrait Basil painted would grow old in his place.

The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, u

The famous Oxford Book of Ballads is a monumental anthology of poetry in 4 volumes, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch.Contents:Thomas the RhymerTam LinSir CawlineSir AldingarCospatrickWillys LadyThe Queen of Elflands NouriceLady Isabel and the Elf-KnightThe Riddling KnightMay ColvinThe Wee Wee ManAlison GrossKemp OwyneThe Laily WormKing OrfeoKing HenryThe Boy and the MantleKing Arthur and King CornwallThe Marriage of Sir GawainBonnie AnnieBrown Robyns ConfessionThe Cruel MotherBinnorieThe Broomfield HillEarl Mars DaughterProud Lady MargaretClerk SaundersThe Daemon LoverClerk ColvenYoung HuntingThe Great Silkie of Sule SkerrieThe Wife of Ushers WellA Lyke-Wake DirgeThe Unquiet GraveBOOK II:Hynd HornHynd EtinErlintonEarl BrandThe Douglas TragedyGlasgerionKing EstmereFair AnnieThe Lass of LochroyanYoung BekieYoung BeichanChilde WatersChilde MauriceBrown AdamJellon GrameLittle Musgrave and Lady BarnardLord Ingram and Childe VyetFair JanetOld Robin of PortingaleLord Thomas and Fair AnnetRose the Red and White LilyLeesome BrandBabylonPrince RobertYoung AndrewThe Gay GoshawkWillies Lyke-WakeFair Margaret and Sweet WilliamThe Twa BrothersThe Cruel BrotherEdward, EdwardLord RandalThe Twa CorbiesThe Three RavensBOOK III:The Nut-Brown MaidFause FoodrageThe Fair Flower of NorthumberlandYoung JohnLady MaisryBonny Bee HomSir Patrick SpensThe Lord of LornEdom o GordonLamkinHugh of LincolnThe Heir of LinneFair Mary of WallingtonYoung WatersThe Queens MarieThe Outlaw MurrayGlenlogieLady ElspatJamie DouglasKatharine JohnstoneJohnie ArmstrongClyde WaterYoung BenjieAnnan WaterRare Willie Drowned in YarrowThe Duke of Gordons DaughterThe Bonny Earl of MurrayBonny George CampbellBOOK IV:JudasSt. Stephen and King HerodThe Maid and the PalmerThe FalconThe Cherry-Tree CarolThe Carnal and the CraneJolly WatI Saw Three ShipsThe Twelve Good JoysThe Angel GabrielThe Three KingsThe InnocentsDives and LazarusThe Holy WellThe Seven Virgins

e-artnow Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes" (Literally translated with notes) by Demosthenes. e-artnow Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every e-artnow book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. e-artnow hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

In Sabine Baring-Goulds The Most Curious Medieval Myths, readers are taken on a fascinating journey through some of the most intriguing myths and legends of the medieval period. Baring-Goulds extensive knowledge of folklore and history is on full display as he delves into the origins and meanings of these myths, providing a scholarly analysis that is both engaging and informative. The book is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to both academic scholars and general readers interested in the subject. Baring-Goulds use of primary sources and his attention to detail add depth and credibility to his examination of these timeless stories. The literary context of the book reflects Baring-Goulds background as a renowned folklorist and antiquarian, showcasing his passion for uncovering the hidden truths behind ancient myths and legends. His meticulous research and thoughtful interpretations make The Most Curious Medieval Myths a valuable contribution to the study of medieval folklore and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in exploring the rich tapestry of myths that have captured the imagination of generations past.

Gowers achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time-Anglo-French, English, and Latin-was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all three languages. Certainly there is reason to know these poems for the light they shed on the intense partisanship and events of great moment surrounding the usurpation 1399-1400. It was during these parlous times that Gower composed most of the poems included here. All are important documents historically; but they are also poems admirable equally for their skill and craft. In Praise of Peace is in the same position as the shorter Latin works edited and translated in this volume: ignored, neglected, reduced, or relegated to the dusty realm of footnotes. But there is far more at work in this complex poem, as Gowers verse deftly weaves in and out of the historical, political, social, and religious contexts and controversies of its day. In tone, In Praise of Peace is, if not triumphant, determinedly optimistic. In this light, we might view the poem as a coda to Gowers long career, restating and reinvigorating his famously moral principles about just rule of self and society.

This stunning collection of myths is for adults, and brings together 52 goddess myths from across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten - spectacular! Pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton revitalises powerful goddesses, creating new perspectives and contemporary literature from fragments of myth. It features 52 papercuts by artist Sophie Herxheimer, juxtaposing the ordinary and fabulous. The Mighty Goddess reimagines ancient myths in poetic language, putting the goddess in the centre of the narrative, exploring the diverse ways in which goddesses are represented. Words and images delight and subvert, revelling in the female, exploring creativity, desire, destruction and death. This contemporary collection brings goddesses to life in all their glory.Journey from Alaska to Mesopotamia, and ancient Rome to Tibet, and follow the goddess from creator to crone in a collection where myth and art combine.

Like the Bible upon which it is based, the metrical paraphrase is unlikely to be a text read cover-to-cover by the faint-hearted. The Paraphrase is, in several ways, a remarkable artifact of the Chaucerian period, one that can reveal a great deal about vernacular biblical literature in Middle English, about readership and lay understandings of the Bible, about the relationship between Christians and Jews in late medieval England, about the environment in which the Lollards and other reformers worked, about perceived roles of women in history and in society, and even about the composition of medieval drama. The Paraphrase-poets proclamation that he intends to write stories "for sympyll men" (line 19) to understand the Scriptures and be engaged by them-"That men may lyghtly leyre / to tell and undertake yt" (lines 23-24)-thus combines the profit of sacred literature with the pleasure of the secular. This is Horaces utile et dulce ("both useful and pleasing") principle at its clearest, a singular example of the didacticism that characterizes so much of medieval literature, an aesthetic of pedagogic efficacy that is inseparably linked to the essential component of true pleasure in the text.

This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volumes helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.

Writing in ancient Egypt first appeared in the late 4th millennium BC during the late phase of predynastic Egypt. By the Old Kingdom, literary works included funerary texts, epistles and letters, hymns and poems, and commemorative autobiographical texts recounting the careers of prominent administrative officials. Ancient Egyptian literature has been preserved on a wide variety of media. This includes papyrus scrolls and packets, limestone or ceramic ostraca, wooden writing boards, monumental stone edifices and coffins. This book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs. Contents:The Pyramid TextsStories of Magicians who Lived under the Ancient EmpireThe Book of the DeadBooks of the Dead of the Grco-Roman PeriodThe Egyptian Story of the CreationLegends of the GodsHistorical LiteratureAutobiographical LiteratureTales of Travel and AdventureFairy TalesEgyptian Hymns to the GodsMoral and Philosophical LiteratureMiscellaneous LiteratureThe Book of the DeadPapyrus of AniHymn to the NileGreat Hymn to AtenHymn to Osiris-Sokar Tale of the Doomed PrinceThe Magic BookThe Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Own SoulAncient Egyptian Love Poems

John Capgraves The Life of Saint Katherine, written c. 1463 in Lynn in Norfolk, is, according to the editor, . . . the longest and most intricate Katherine legend written during the Middle Ages, eith

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecrafts death less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin, who was able to provide his daughter with a rich, if informal, education, encouraging her to adhere to his own liberal political theories. When Mary was four, her father married a neighbour, with whom, as her stepmother, Mary came to have a troubled relationship.

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook."The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irvings companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity.

In tracing the legacy of Achilles in connection with the Trojan war, this book follows the lines of Homers Iliad. The author gives a graphic picture of the stirring events in the ten years siege main-tained by the Greeks, under the leadership of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, in their finally suc-cessful effort to redress the injury done to Menelaus, king of Sparta, whose wife, Helen, was carried off by Paris. The striking points in this thrilling narrative are the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles; the exploits of Hector, noblest character of them all; the human impersonations of the gods, who take part in the strife some on one side, some on the other; the death of Patroclus; the final reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon and the formers tremendous exploits; the death of Hector, and the touching interview with the aged Priam, who seeks to recover his body.

Readers have noticed that the fifteenth century saw a remarkable flourishing of poems written in conditions of physical captivity or on the subject of imprisonment. The largest body of this poetry is from the pen of Charles of Valois, duke of Orleans, who was captured by the English at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and not released until 1440. The longest single poem on the subject is James I of Scotlands The Kingis Quair, purportedly written at the time of his release from an eighteen-year imprisonment in England .This volume reflects the wide scope of these prison poems by bringing together a new edition of The Kingis Quair, a selection from Charles dOrleans Fortunes Stabilnes, a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in Londons Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote about physical and/or emotional imprisonment.

Immerse yourself in the epic worlds of heroism, adventure, and divine intervention with Homers masterpieces, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey."In "The Iliad," experience the dramatic events of the Trojan War, where legendary heroes like Achilles and Hector clash in a tale of bravery, honor, and the wrath of the gods. Follow the intense battles, emotional conflicts, and the ultimate fate of Troy.In "The Odyssey," embark on the extraordinary journey of Odysseus as he battles mythical creatures, navigates treacherous waters, and encounters gods and mortals alike, all in his relentless quest to return home to Ithaca. This epic adventure explores themes of perseverance, cunning, and the enduring power of the human spirit. Experience the genius of Homer, the father of Western literature, as he weaves together stories that have captivated and inspired readers for millennia. These timeless epics blend thrilling action, rich character development, and profound themes that continue to resonate with audiences today.Notable Mentions:"Two of the greatest works of literature ever written." Classical Literature Review"A must-read for anyone passionate about epic tales and ancient history." Literary Enthusiast Join the heroes of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" in their epic quests. Click Buy Now to experience the timeless adventures and legendary tales of Homer today!

With forty pounds he went back to England. Curlews cried in the bog next to Ballinasloe station. A taxi-man looked harassed no work maybe. They kissed slenderly. The train left. She walked away. And so Diarmaid OHallrahan withdraws from his mother once more, as he returns to London just before his eighteenth birthday. In the quiet of her Galway home, Susan is forced to confront a ruptured relationship with her only son, and the ikons feathers, beads, paper accumulated into shapes marking the progress of his troubled childhood. As she pursues him across England, meeting friends and lovers left in his wake, she resigns herself to the man her son has become, and must face a new identity of her own. In this story about the dark complexities of love, the mysteries of sexuality, the anguishes of motherhood, Desmond Hogan conveys an unassailable truth about human experience: that nothing and no one can stay the same forever.

"The History of Rome" had a profound impact on the field of classical studies and historiography. It provided a comprehensive narrative that influenced generations of historians and students of ancient history. Mommsens work helped to popularize the study of Roman history and contributed significantly to the understanding of the complexities of Roman politics, culture, and society.His portrayal of Romes history, particularly the period of the Republics decline, is often seen as a reflection on the challenges faced by modern states, making his analysis relevant even beyond the study of ancient history. Mommsens insights into the nature of political power, the role of charismatic leaders, and the dynamics of social conflict continue to resonate with contemporary readers.

The Arthur of the legends has quite stepped out of the historic page and become a hero without time or place in any real world, a king of the imagination, the loftiest figure in that great outgrowth of chivalric romance which formed the favorite fictitious literature of Europe during three or four of the medival centuries. The ballads and romances in which the King Arthur of medival story figures as the hero have here been transformed into easily readable prose and thus offer pleasant and enjoyable stories to us now. This is volume two out of two.

The Arthur of the legends has quite stepped out of the historic page and become a hero without time or place in any real world, a king of the imagination, the loftiest figure in that great outgrowth of chivalric romance which formed the favorite fictitious literature of Europe during three or four of the medival centuries. The ballads and romances in which the King Arthur of medival story figures as the hero have here been transformed into easily readable prose and thus offer pleasant and enjoyable stories to us now. This is volume one out of two.