Selbst in ihren wildesten Traumen hatten sich Martin Banks und seine Computerfreak-Freunde nicht ausmalen konnen, dass sie eines Tages der Gnade ihres ehemaligen Zauberlehrlings ausgeliefert sein wurden, den sie wegen groben Magie-Missbrauchs und ganz allgemein bosen Verhaltens ins Gefangnis gebracht hatten. Wer hatte gedacht, dass der rachgierige Todd entkommen wurde, um dann ein Computerspiel voller Wolfe, Weibsbilder, Wustenei und anderer gra ...
In this epic poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of the king of the Danes whose great hall is plagued by the monster Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel bare-handed and goes on to kill Grendel's mother with a giant's sword that he recovers from her lair. Later, as king of the Geats, Beowulf confronts a dragon that terrorizes his kingdom. J.R.R. Tolkien said of Beowulf that it is in fact so interesting as poetry, in places p ...
«Счастливый принц» и другие сказки Оскар Уайльд – «король парадокса» и мастер неповторимого изящного слога. Его сказки чаруют не только великолепным стилем и красивейшим английским языком, но и нежностью, мудростью и знанием жизни, которыми они проникнуты. Будь их героями Соловей или Роза, Принц или Ласточка, Карлик или Инфанта, – это истории про нас. Слушая их, каждый найдет, чему улыбнуться и где растрогаться. The Happy Prince The Nighti ...
The Armenian folk epic David of Sassoun was performed and transmitted orally for over one thousand years before a variant was discovered and transcribed in 1873. The publication of this variant marks the beginning of a long period of discoveries of other variants. The fifty variants collected by1936 are the source of the epic's unified text. The action of the epic is centered on the preservation of the House of Sassoun, or freedom f ...
This companion reader to Chase and Phillips, A New Introduction to Greek, (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961) is a compilation of slightly edited «real Greek» from Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and the Septuagint. The reader has a preface introducing the student to the Greek authors. The lessons reinforce grammar and vocabulary in this classic introductory textbook. Students meet Socrates, Plato, Cyrus, Jul ...
A shooting star seen in the skies over Victorian England heralds an alien invasion. The Martians, in need of resources, have been shot from Mars via a huge space gun and have landed in Southern England, where they quickly overwhelm its inhabitants. As the battle for Earth begins, our unnamed narrator struggles to return to his wife amidst the fighting and devastation. One of the most widely-read and influential science-fiction novels, The War of ...
