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For many centuries the Trojan War occupies minds and thoughts of many great writers and scientists all around the world. Whether there is any historical reality behind it or it is just a legend, the war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature. The most notable works about the Trojan War are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey which describe a period of four days and two nights in the tenth year of the decade-long siege of Troy, and the journey home of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid. This book, The Trojan War, is an excellent starting point for anyone curious about this great story. It presents all the main charters and events described in many works of Greek literature. Not only is this book the key that opens the doors to the world of Greek literature and mythology to those who wish to explore it in depth but it also provides more than enough fascinating facts and information about one of the most notable conflicts in history.
The Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake
Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi River to Itasca Lake is Henry Schoolcraft's personal account of his mission in the Michigan Territory, where he served from 1828 to 1832 as US Indian agent. Schoolcraft shares the results of his mission in this book. He traveled to the upper reaches of the Mississippi to settle continuing troubles between the Ojibwe and Dakota nations. During the voyage, Schoolcraft took the opportunity to explore the region, making the first accurate map of the Lake District around western Lake Superior. He also discovered on his voyage the true headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca.
Passion In the Past: 70 Historical Romance Novels
Musaicum Books presents to you the collection of the great love stories of the past, the best historical novels in one edition: Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan) Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) The Making Of A Saint (W. Somerset Maugham) The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) The Princess of Cleves (Madame de La Fayette) The Forest Lovers (Maurice Hewlett) Malcolm (George MacDonald) Scarlet Letter: Love in the Colonial Period (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Wild Irish Girl (Lady Sydney Morgan) Sophia (Stanley John Weyman) Paul and Virginia (Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Mary Hays) Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer) The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (Georgette Heyer) The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood) Fantomina (Eliza Haywood) Olinda's Adventures (Catharine Trotter Cockburn) Belinda (Maria Edgeworth) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Pamela Trilogy Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft) Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice Sense & Sensibility Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion Miss Marjoribanks & Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Mr. Rowl (D. K. Broster) The Battle of the Strong (Gilbert Parker) Kitty Alone (Sabine Baring-Gould) Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert) Lady Anna (Anthony Trollope) The Manoeuvring Mother (Lady Charlotte Bury) Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The Portrait of a Lady & The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Bel Ami (Guy de Maupassant) The Squatter and the Don (María Ruiz de Burton) Maria Chapdelaine (Louis Hémon) The Four Feathers (A. E. W. Mason) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly (1845–1904) was a North American pioneer woman captured by the Sioux and freed five months later. She later wrote a book about her experiences called Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians in 1871. In this books she writes – «I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of hostile Sioux, which resulted in the death of a large proportion of the party, in my own capture, and a horrible captivity of five months' duration. Of my thrilling adventures and experience during this season of terror and privation, I propose to give a plain, unvarnished narrative, hoping the reader will be more interested in facts concerning the habits, manners, and customs of the Indians, and their treatment of prisoners.»
Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem comprised of over 250 myths. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. The Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works in Western culture, it has inspired such authors as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Numerous episodes from the poem have been depicted in acclaimed works of sculpture, painting, and music.
Die Meisterwerke der Weltliterature
In dieser Sammlung finden Sie die wahren Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur, die bahnbrechenden Bücher, die zeitlosen Klassiker, die ewig bewegende Poesie:: Selbstbetrachtungen (Marcus Aurelius) Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (Arthur Schopenhauer) Grashalme (Walt Whitman) Der Prozess (Franz Kafka) Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Winnetou I-IV (Karl May) Der Graf von Monte Christo (Alexandre Dumas) Der letzte Mohikaner (James Fenimore Cooper) Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Das Geschenk der Weisen (O. Henry) Schachnovelle (Stefan Zweig) Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten (Charles Dickens) Grimms Märchen Andersens Märchen Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Joseph von Eichendorff) Mephisto (Klaus Mann) Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Goethe) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe (Emily Brontë) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Mein Herz (Else Lasker-Schüler) Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (Heinrich Heine) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Väter und Söhne (Turgenew) Soll und Haben (Gustav Freytag) Schau heimwärts, Engel! (Thomas Wolfe) Gullivers Reisen (Jonathan Swift) Die denkwürdigen Erlebnisse des Artur Gordon Pym (Edgar Allan Poe) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Die Dame mit den Kamelien (Alexandre Dumas) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke) Die Forsyte-Saga (John Galsworthy) Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Schuld und Sühne (Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski) Ben Hur (Lew Wallace) Kandide (Voltaire) Alice im Wunderland (Lewis Carroll) Heidi (Johanna Spyri) Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Die wunderbare Reise des kleinen Nils Holgersson mit den Wildgänsen (Selma Lagerlöf) Das Dschungelbuch (Rudyard Kipling) 20.000 Meilen unter den Meeren (Jules Verne) Wolfsblut (Jack London) Don Quijote (Miguel de Cervantes) Vater Goriot (Honoré de Balzac) Eugénie Grandet (Honoré de Balzac) Der Liebling (Guy de Maupassant) Der Misanthrop (Moliere) Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane) Der Mantel (Nikolai Gogol) Krieg und Frieden (Leo Tolstoi) Schlafen (Tschechow) Die göttliche Komödie (Dante) Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (Robert Musil) Tristan und Isolde (Gottfried von Straßburg) Parzival (Wolfram von Eschenbach) Das Narrenschiff (Sebastian Brant) Radetzkymarsch (Joseph Roth) Der Sandmann (E. T. A. Hoffmann) Rheinsberg (Kurt Tucholsky) Die Judenbuche (Annette von Droste-Hülshoff) Die Marquise von O… (Heinrich von Kleist) Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (Sophie von La Roche) Kleider machen Leute (Gottfried Keller) Der Schimmelreiter (Theodor Storm) Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Ilias & Odyssee (Homer) Bhagavadgita Masnavi (Rumi) Das Gastmahl (Platon) Germania (Tacitus) Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Sigmund Freud) Also sprach Zarathustra (Nietzsche) Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Oswald Spengler) Der Sinn des Lebens (Alfred Adler)..
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin. Ruskin examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. He discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city. As well as being an art historian, Ruskin was a social reformer. He set out to prove how Venetian architecture exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier works.
The Lions of the Lord (Western Novel)
"In the days of '49 seven trails led from our Western frontier into the Wonderland that lay far out under the setting sun and called to the restless. Each of the seven had been blazed mile by mile through the mighty romance of an empire's founding. Some of them for long stretches are now overgrown by the herbage of the plain; some have faded back into the desert they lined; and more than one has been shod with steel. But along them all flit and brood the memory-ghosts of old, rich-coloured days. To the shout of teamster, the yell of savage, the creaking of tented ox-cart, and the rattle of the swifter mail-coach, there go dim shapes of those who had thrilled to that call of the West;—strong, brave men with the far look in their eyes, with those magic rude tools of the pioneer, the rifle and the axe; women, too, equally heroic, of a stock, fearless, ready, and staunch, bearing their sons and daughters in fortitude; raising them to fear God, to love their country,—and to labour…"
Asmodeus at Large
Intended as a sequel to «The Devil upon Two Sticks» by French writer Alain-René Lesage, «Asmodeus at Large» by Bulwer-Lytton is a fascinating story of a conversation between the Devil and his partner on contemporary society and events. Excerpt: "I put on my hat and walked at once to the Doctor's house. «Yes,» said I, musingly, «I am certainly in a consumption. I may as well, like Colonel Jones, leave my poor remains to the Surgeons at once, and enjoy the newspaper credit of my generosity before I die. The cholera, however, which is terror to others, is consolation to me. If I were not dying of a consumption, I should certainly die of the cholera…»
Gesammelte Western-Romane und Erzählungen
Karl May war zweifellos ein talentierter Geschichtenerzähler und Träumer, der seine eigene abenteuerliche Welt erfand. Die Charaktere von Mays Western sind die stärkste Seite seiner Arbeit. Zum Beispiel, ein Paar des jungen Anführers Winnetou, der loyal zu Freunden ist und nur von Gerechtigkeitssinn geleitet wird, und sein Freund und Blutsbruder Old Surehand – ihre Abenteuer und ihr weiteres Schicksal werden keinen Leser gleichgültig lassen. Wenn Sie in die Ära des Westerns eintauchen, Ihrer Fantasie freien Lauf lassen und die Atmosphäre Amerikas zu Zeiten der Indianerstämme spüren möchten, dann ist diese Auswahl genau das Richtige für Sie.