One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers. Featuring an enticingly personal introduction, a detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, ...
La esperada continuacion de Mi planta de naranja-lima. Zeze crecio y es casi un adolescente. Viajo para estudiar a otra ciudad, donde vive con una familia adoptiva, y quiere ser un buen estudiante para volver a ayudar a sus padres y hermanos. Ya no tiene a su amiga, la planta de naranja lima, pero cuenta con Adan, un sapo que le ensena a cuidar el sol de su corazon. Mas importante que el que brilla en el cielo,es el sol de la esperanza, ...
The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District deals with the theme of the subordinate role expected from women in 19th-century European society. Also it revolves around adultery, provincial life and the planning of murder by a woman, hence the title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play Macbeth.
Elasphera. Ein Mythos, der Wirklichkeit wird. Die Prophezeiung erfullt sich. Seit jeher war das Kaiserreich im Osten ein Symbol von Macht. Doch der Kaiser wird alter. Sein Sohn ist nicht zum Regieren geboren, und die Aasgeier des Senats kreisen bereits uber das einst so stolze Reich. Elasphera erbebt im Schatten einer drohenden Gefahr. Aus der Asche des Goldenen Kerindai erhebt sich die Schwarze Schlange. Alles verandert sich … ...
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The book features highly esteemed weird stories and supernatural tales. Table of Contents: "The Repairer of Reputations" – A weird story of egotism and paranoia which carries the imagery of the book's title. "The Mask" – A dream story of art, love, and uncanny science. "In the Court of ...
The Iron Woman is a novel of manners set in the 19th century fictional locale of Mercer, an Ohio River community that represents Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The novel tells the story of Mrs. Maitland, a leathery old widow who owns and operates an iron mill. Her devotion to a Puritanical work ethic alienates her son Blair, who though he stands to inherit the business, is headstrong and in love with Elizabeth Ferguson, a match Mrs. Maitland disappro ...
The Way of All Flesh traces four generations of the Pontifex family. The story is narrated by Overton, godfather to the central character Ernest. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, story traces Ernest's emergence from previous generations of the Pontifex family. John Pontifex was a carpenter; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated ...
Dass der 18-jahrige Daniel nicht das beste Verhaltnis zu seinem jungeren Bruder Milan hat, ist kein Geheimnis. Milan ist stur, vorlaut und ein unverbesserlicher Herzensbrecher, der einem das Zusammenleben nicht gerade leicht macht. Gemeinsam mit ihrem alleinerziehenden Vater bestreiten die beiden mehr oder weniger harmonisch ihren Alltag, bis sich an einem verhangnisvollen Tag Mitte Oktober alles verandert, was Daniel uber seinen Bruder zu wisse ...
Updated with a new foreword by Moss Roberts for this fifteenth anniversary edition, <i>Three Kingdoms</i> tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that ...
