Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Subscription Books Bulletin
Author: Standard Dictionary of the English Language
Author: P. Austin NuttallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Nuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language
Author: W.J. GordonNuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language Based on the Labours of the Most Eminent Lexicographers
Author: P. Austin NuttallHeart-life in Song
Author: Frances Harrison MarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Yvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300038380
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love
The History
Author: HerodotusPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226327752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation of fact and fantasy. "Reading Herodotus in English has never been so much fun. . . . Herodotus crowds his fresco-like pages with all shades of humanity. Whether Herodotus's view is 'tragic,' mythical, or merely common sense, it provided him with a moral salt with which the diversity of mankind could be savored. And savor it we do in David Grene's translation."—Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor "Grene's work is a monument to what translation intends, and to what it is hungry to accomplish. . . . Herodotus gives more sheer pleasure than almost any other writer."—Peter Levi, New York Times Book Review
Author: P. Austin Nuttall