Author: Hélène Adeline GuerberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story
Author: Hélène GuerberPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041452539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Book of the Epic
Author: Hélène Adeline GuerberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
A Selected List of Books Recommended by the Ontario Library Association for Purchase by the Public Libraries of this Province ...
Author: Ontario Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Book of the Epic
Author: H. A. GuerberPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
"The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story" by H. A. Guerber aims to introduce readers to the greatest epics from around the world. It covers: Greek Epics, Latin Epics, French Epics, Spanish Epics, Portuguese Epics, Italian Epics, Epics of the British Isles, German Epics, Scandinavian Epics, Russian and Finnish Epics, Epics of Central Europe and of the Balkan Peninsula, Hebrew and Early Christian Epics, Arabian and Persian Epics, Indian Epics, Chinese and Japanese Poetry, and American Epics.
Legends of Switzerland
Author: H. A. GuerberPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Aside from the picturesque, historical, and geological interest connected with a journey in Switzerland, the country also boasts of a rich fund of legends, delightfully characteristic of the people at whose firesides they have been told for centuries. This book highlights some of the most popular folktales from the region, such as Schaffhausen, The Forest Cantons, and Glarus and Grisons.
List of Books for School Libraries of the State of Oregon
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elementary school libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois RichmondPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661735X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies
Author: H. A. GuerberPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This work is a history book of the original Thirteen Colonies of the United States. They were originally a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America, who fought the American Revolutionary War and formed the United States of America by declaring full independence. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut); Middle (New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware); Southern (Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; and Georgia).
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Nordic Sagas as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois RichmondPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476691630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children's literature they inspired, some of which are canonical while others are forgotten. It covers authors like William Morris, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Gray, Walter Scott, H. Rider Haggard, W.H. Auden, John Greenleef Whittier and more. In lavish volumes and modest schoolbooks, British and American writers claimed Nordic heritage and explored Nordic traditions. The sagas offered a rich and wide-ranging source for these authors: Volsunga saga's Sigurd the dragon slayer; King Olaf's saga of opposing Nordic Gods and Christianity; Frithiof's model of headstrong youth beset with unfair opposition and lost love. Grettir and Njal tell of men who accepted fate and met conflict and enemies unflinchingly; Aslaug, Gudrida, Hallberga and Hervar exerted remarkable influence; and Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky provided Americans with a Nordic heritage of discovery.