Spanning the years 1853-1933-beginning with conveyance by oxcart and ending with air travel-this series of dramatic monologues tells the story of Helen Walsh and Thomas Hodgson, whose families trekked the trails of the great migration to the West. Helen and Thomas get married, and together, tame the remote corners of the wilderness by means of their imperishable love and a clear, well-beaten path.
Metrische Analysen Zu Vergil Aeneis Buch VII (Materialien Zu Metrik Und Stilistik, #17)
by Wilhelm Ott
The Song of Roland
No king, no captain ever stood with better. Roland looks up on the mountains and slopes, sees the French dead, so many good men fallen, and weeps for them, as a great warrior weeps: “Barons, my lords, may God give you his grace, may he grant Paradise to all your souls, make them lie down among the holy flowers. I never saw better vassals than you. All the years you’ve served me, and all the times, the mighty lands you conquered for Charles our King! The Emperor raised you for this terrible hour!...
The Argonautica (The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts) (Top 100 Classic Greek Mythology)
by Apollonius Rhodius
The Argonautica is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. Their heroic adventures and Jason's relationship with the Colchian princess/sorceress Medea were already well known to Hellenistic audiences, which enabled Apollonius to go beyond a simple narrative, giving it a scholarly emphasis suitable to the tim...
The Nature of Things (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by Lucretius
This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world.
El Gaucho Martín Fierro y La vuelta de Martín Fierro
by Jose Hernandez
Pan Tadeusz, or Sir Thaddeus, by Polish writer and philosopher, Adam Mickiewicz, is recognized as the national epic of Poland and it is considered by many to be last great epic poem in European literature. Told during the tumultuous time of Napeolon Bonaparte when Poland-Lithuania was all but dissolved, Pan Tadeusz recounts the story of two young lovers from warring noble families. In this 1917 translation by George Noyes Rapall, the poem is carefully retold in a narrative form along with a t...
Metrische Analysen Zu Vergil Bucolica (Materialien Zu Metrik Und Stilistik, #9)
by Wilhelm Ott
You're A Badass Tour Guide Keep That Shit Up
by White Elephant Novelty Books
Biographia Literaria and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Valmiki's Uttara Kanda
The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara Kanda is rendered here by noted Sanskrit scholar Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous detail. First composed around 500 BCE, it tells the story of an unjustly exiled prince, the abduction of his wife from the forest by a ten-headed demon king, his alliance with a band of magical monkeys, and the internal and external battles he must fight to win back his wife and keep her. India's great Sanskrit epic brings to readers the classic dilemmas...
Orlando Innamorato Di Matteo M. Bojardo, Volume 4...
by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Francesco Berni
The classic epic poem portrays an allegorical journey through hell and purgatory to reach heaven.
The Quest For Third Heaven Book Two (August Snow, #2)
by Ron W Koppelberger Jr