Une anthologie exceptionnelle reunissant cinq monuments de la poesie epique occidentale : Homere, Virgile, Dante, Shakespeare et Milton. Des voyages heroiques de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssee aux visions de l'au-dela de la Divine Comedie et du Paradis perdu, cette collection retrace des siecles d'imagination poetique.

Saddle up for nine voices who defined the American frontier: James Fenimore Cooper's frontier legend, Bret Harte's mining-camp wit, Washington Irving's early wilderness tales, and rising talents like Andy Adams, B.M. Bower, and Dane Coolidge, gathered here from A to Z. Cattle drives, outlaws, homesteaders, and the vast open range come alive across ten stories that helped shape an entire genre of American storytelling. This Chronicle Vault edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in ...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Homer's "The Odyssey" is the classic Greek poem that recounts the adventurer Odysseus's arduous journey home after the Trojan War and the trials that delay his return to Ithaca.Along the way, he encounters storms, monsters, enchantresses, hostile gods, and the seductive forgetfulness of distant lands. Meanwhile, his wife, Penelope, resists persistent suitors, while his son, Telemachus, matures into courage and leadership.This edition presents two influential English transla...

Journey across centuries of epic poetry with some of the most influential voices in world literature. The Epic Poems Anthology brings together major epic works associated with Homer, Virgil, Marcel Proust, and John Milton, with Samuel Butler contributing as translator. From the legendary heroes of ancient Greece and Rome to Milton's monumental vision of Paradise, temptation, rebellion, and redemption, this collection explores the enduring themes that have shaped epic literature for centuri...

Ulysses. The hero of Homer’s great poem was known to the Greeks under the name of Odysseus. He was king of the pastoral islands of Ithaca and Dulichium. Most of the petty Greek chieftains became suitors for the hand of the beautiful Helen, and Ulysses was among the number, but withdrew when he realised the smallness of his chances. He then married Penelope, the daughter of Icarius, and at the same time joined with the other unsuccessful lovers of Helen in a sworn league for her future prot...

This concise historical study brings the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 into sharp focus as an overburdened attempt to rebuild a shattered Europe after World War I. Against a backdrop of hunger, political collapse, and ruined nations, Charles Homer Haskins and Robert Howard Lord examine the practical problems of peacemaking: ending war, redrawing borders, restoring economies, punishing aggressors, and preventing future conflict. Wilson's Fourteen Points provide the guiding ideal, but the b...

Anyone who thinks can see that Britain today is broken. But how can we mend it?Current physical, after-the-fact attempts are like applying plasters to cure cancer: the cause, and hence the illness, persists.This collection stands out in seeing our social and environmental problems as substantially moral, analysing them and proposing a moral/philosophical cure as follows:At the root of our ethical climate is personal distortion: wants and drives overriding conscience...

Ride into the untamed frontier where courage, danger, and justice meet. The Western in 10 Classics Vol. 1 brings together a selection of classic Western literature featuring the rugged landscapes, unforgettable characters, and adventurous spirit of the American frontier. From cowboys and outlaws to lawmen, pioneers, ranchers, and frontier wanderers, these stories transport readers to a world of dusty trails, isolated settlements, dangerous encounters, and the constant struggle between just...

Enter the legendary world of Achilles, Hector, and the gods of ancient Greece. The Iliad of Homer is one of the greatest epic poems of ancient literature, telling the story of a pivotal period during the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the legendary Greek warrior whose anger and withdrawal from battle have profound consequences for both the Greeks and Trojans. The epic brings together unforgettable figures including Hector, Agamemnon, Odysseus, Patroclus, Helen, and Priam, alongside...

Two interplanetary romances: a scientist's mind is projected into a body on a distant world where the ruling class has bred the workers into something less than human, and a second world where the women rule and the men are kept. Flint left school at fourteen and sold these to All-Story in the 1910s, before Gernsback had named the genre; he died at thirty-six under strange circumstances, at the bottom of a canyon in a stolen car.

No one is coming to call the plays for you. It's time to step up to the line.Life doesn't care about your game plan. It doesn't care how hard you prepared, how much talent you have, or how good your intentions were. At some point, you will get hit from the blind side. You will face a devastating career injury, a brutal rejection, or a crushing setback that knocks the wind straight out of your chest.When you're down in the fourth quarter with the clock ticki...