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The Song of Roland
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On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne’s warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and Islam, while Roland’s last stand is the ultimate expression of honour and feudal values of twelfth-century France.
Beowulf
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Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.
Sometime My Love
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Written In Stars
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.
Песнь о нибелунгах
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Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful princess Kriemhild of Burgundy, by aiding her brother Gunther in his struggle to seduce a powerful Icelandic Queen. But the two women quarrel, and Siegfried is ultimately destroyed by those he trusts the most. Comparable in scope to the Iliad, this skilfully crafted work combines the fragments of half-forgotten myths to create one of the greatest epic poems - the principal version of the heroic legends used by Richard Wagner, in The Ring.
The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)
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The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn) is a collection of 11 prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back to older Iron Age traditions, each of the tales is the product of a developed medieval Welsh narrative tradition, both oral and written.
Lady Charlotte Guest in the mid 19th century was the first to publish English translations of the collection, popularising the name "Mabinogion". The stories appear in either or both of two medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch or Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, written c.1350, and the Red Book of Hergest or Llyfr Coch Hergest, written c.1382 – 1410, tho texts or fragments of some of the tales have been preserved in earlier 13th century and later mss.
Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing mss, but disagree over just how much older. The different texts originated at different times. Debate has focused on the dating of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Sir Ifor Williams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments, while later Saunders Lewis set forth a number of arguments for a date between 1170 and 1190; Th Charles-Edwards, in a paper published in 1970, discussed both viewpoints, and while critical of the arguments of both scholars, noted that the language of the stories fits the 11th century. More recently, Patrick Sims-Williams argued for a plausible range of about 1060 to 1200, the current scholarly consensus.
The Green Knight (Movie Tie-In)
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The inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, an early English poem of magic, chivalry and seduction.
Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge, decapitating the stranger - only to see the Green Knight seize up his own severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out and honour their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Gawain is among the greatest Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction.
Girl's Best Friend (Barbie and Friends Book Club)
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In this book, Barbie agrees to let Stacie train a guide-dog puppy and her little sister does a great job. But all too soon, Stacie must choose between giving up her beloved pet-and gaining more than she ever thought possible.
Les Chats
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«Quand je suis arrivé chez Da, les chats semblaient m'attendre. Ils étaient alignés devant le perron, assis dans leur pose accoutumée, clignant malignement de leurs yeux d'argent.»
Ce très beau roman est une véritable invitation à la littérature fantastique. A pas feutrés et sans violence, le jeune lecteur est entraîné par l'auteur dans l'univers troublant du doute et de l'étrange.
Beowulf: A New Translation
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An Irish Times Best Book of 2020
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of The Mere Wife.
Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf — and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world — there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements never before translated into English.
A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. These familiar components of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history. Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment — of powerful men seeking to become more powerful and one woman seeking justice for her child — but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation; her Beowulf is one for the twenty-first century.
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
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The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book.
From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel’s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.
But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf "snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup"; but he rebuts the notion that this is "a mere treasure story", "just another dragon tale". He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is "the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history" that raises it to another level. "The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The ‘treasure’ is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination."
Sellic spell, a "marvellous tale", is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the "historical legends" of the Northern kingdoms.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
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One of the earliest great stories of English literature after Beowulf, Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "[helps] liberate Gawain from academia" (Sunday Telegraph).
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
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The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.
This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book.
From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel’s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.
But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf "snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup"; but he rebuts the notion that this is "a mere treasure story", "just another dragon tale". He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is "the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history" that raises it to another level. "The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The ‘treasure’ is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination."
Sellic spell, a "marvellous tale", is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the "historical legends" of the Northern kingdoms.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo
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A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.
Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.
Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.
The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
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"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings." --Dick Ringler, Professor Emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Die Geschichte des medizinischen Denkens. Antike und Mittelalter.
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)
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In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism.
This volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report.
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Little Black Classics) by Anon Anon (2015-02-26)
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'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences.Introducing Little Black 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. The Icelandic Sagas were oral in origin and written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Other Icelandic Sagas available in Penguin Classics include Njal's Saga, Egil's Saga, Sagas of Warrior-Poets, Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri, The Saga of Grettir the Strong, The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Vinland Sagas and Comic Sagas from Iceland.
ALGO QUE NADIE HIZO
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En un territorio litoraleño, un pueblo es abandonado y amurallado. En las afueras, se instala uno de sus antiguos habitantes. En ese borde, este hombre narra su vida, revisita el pasado y transita distintas dimensiones del duelo. En la tradición rulfeana, esta novela está construida de breves y poéticos pasajes a partir de una cronología circular.
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Mabinogion
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The Mabinogion is an assembly of Welsh Stories that were taken from Two Ancient books called the 'Red Book of Hergest' and the earlier 'The White Book of Rhydderch' . They tell the stories of people in Celtic times, some of the stories have been placed from approx 500 BC.
Este invierno
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Las fiestas no siempre son fáciles en la familia Spring, especialmente para Charlie y para Tori. Pero este invierno... deberán ser más fuertes que nunca. Acompaña a los hermanos Spring en esta novela corta, tierna y sentida del universo de HEARTSTOPPER.
La reina estrangulada (Los Reyes Malditos, #2)
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La saga de Los reyes malditos, obra cumbre de Maurice Druon, en una edición especial en formato Maxi tapa dura. En el plazo de un año fallecen Felipe IV el Hermoso, el papa Clemente V y Guillermo de Nogaret. A Felipe el Hermoso le sucede en el trono de Francia Luis X, príncipe de débil carácter y pobre inteligencia. Las rivalidades, intrigas y conspiraciones llevan a la corte, a los prelados, a los jueces, a los banqueros y hasta al propio rey a una situación desesperada. Todo ello será preámbulo de un crimen…
Sir Orfeo
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The Tale of the Campaign of Igor: A Russian Epic Poem of the Twelfth Century (A New Translation)
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Igor led his men into battle with the tribes of Polovetsian barbarians, disregarding the bad omen of a solar eclipse, he led his men to victory in their first battle but was overconfident and pushed his advantage too far. The Polovetsians surrounded and wiped out his army, and took him captive.
El Cantar de los Nibelungos (Sepan Cuantos, #285)
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El Cantar de los Nibelungos, en la versión presente, o La tragedia de los Nibelungos, como lo llama la versión más antigua, tiene igual rango que otras grandes epopeyas medievales del occidente; es una expresión del alma de un pueblo que empieza a estar consciente de su individualidad.
El Cantar de los Nibelungos se trata de una gesta antiquísima, leyenda de un remoto tiempo heroico, por siglos transmitida únicamente por tradición oral, que sufrió infinitos cambios y transfiguraciones. En este poema, los numerosos ciclos de leyendas, que las diferentes tribus germánicas elaboran durante las grandes migraciones, gradualmente se fusionan; toda la materia legendaria es refundida en el medioevo tardío, y sólo más tarde, en el siglo XIX, redescubierta por el romanticismo, entra al tesoro de la literatura alemana. La mezcla singular de lo remoto mítico y los siglos medievales es lo esencial v característico v uno de los mayores encantos de este monumento literario.
Beowolf
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The poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroogar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel."
Fubin Joushi to Furin Jouji.
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Wakamatsu, es una chica que trabaja junto a kawakami su jefa que esta en un matrimonio pero no parece irle bien, así que Wakamatsu decide darle un empujón a su vida.
Judith (poem)
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Beauty and the Beast
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"You've got to get the girl to fall in love with you!"
The Beast's only chance to break the spell is for him to fall in love with Belle and earn her love in return.
Si pudiera cambiarlos
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Un relato transexual en el Japón antiguo. La insólita historia del siglo XII que fascinó al premio Nobel Yasunari Kawabata. Sadaijin, un alto cargo de la Corte Imperial, es padre de un hijo y una hija, ambos hermosos como joyas radiantes y tan parecidos como dos gotas de agua. Nacidos bajo los mejores auspicios, los pequeños tienen ante sí un futuro él como cortesano y ella como concubina del emperador. Mas los sueños Sadaijin se esfuman a medida que los niños crecen y muestran una inclinación natural a comportarse como el sexo él es tímido y sensible, mientras que ella es decidida y audaz. Como sus esfuerzos para reconducir la situación resultan inútiles, Sadaijin decide criar a sus hijos según sus tendencias naturales y los presenta en sociedad con los géneros intercambiados. A partir de ese momento, y para su sorpresa, asiste complacido al meteórico éxito social de los dos hermanos. Insólito y divertido, este monogatari del siglo XII permaneció silenciado durante siglos por ser considerado obsceno e inmoral y por su carácter desafiante hacia los roles de género imperantes. Redescubierta en 1968 gracias a la mirada desprejuiciada del premio Nobel Yasunari Kawabata, quien supo apreciar su incalculable valor literario y su dimensión netamente moderna.
La voz dormida
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Winner of the 2003 Premio de Libreros de España; an award given by booksellers for the best book of the year. A group of women, confined in the prison of Ventas in Madrid, raises the flag of dignity and anger as the only possible weapon to face humiliation, torture and death. La voz dormida is an essential novel since it helps to dive into the role that women played during decisive years in the history of the world. Description in Spanish: Un grupo de mujeres, encarceladas en la madrileña prisión de Ventas, enarbola la bandera de la dignidad y el coraje como única arma posible para enfrentarse a la humillación, la tortura y la muerte. Pocas novelas podemos calificar como imprescindibles. La voz dormida es una de ellas porque nos ayuda a bucear en el papel que las mujeres jugaron durante unos años decisivos para la historia de España. Relegadas al ámbito doméstico, decidieron asumir el protagonismo que la tradición les negaba para luchar por un mundo más justo. Unas en la retaguardia y las más osadas en la vanguardia armada de la guerrilla, donde dejaron la evidencia de su valentía y sacrificio.
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
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'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper'
In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
The Icelandic Sagas were oral in origin and written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Other Icelandic Sagas available in Penguin Classics include Njal's Saga, Egil's Saga, Sagas of Warrior-Poets, Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri, The Saga of Grettir the Strong, The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Vinland Sagas and Comic Sagas from Iceland.
Everyman
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Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play tells the story of Everyman, a wealthy and successful man who is suddenly called upon by Death to make a reckoning of his life. Everyman is forced to confront the fact that he has lived a life of sin and must now face judgment for his actions. Along the way, he is abandoned by many of his friends and family members, who are unwilling to accompany him on his journey to the afterlife. Everyman eventually turns to Good Deeds, who agrees to accompany him to the final judgment. The play is a powerful allegory for the Christian belief in the importance of leading a virtuous life and preparing for the afterlife. It is also a poignant reminder of the inevitability of death and the need to live each day with purpose and meaning.Everyman. Gramercy, my frendes and kynnesmen kynde. Now shall I shewe you the grefe of my I was commaunded by a messenger, That is a hye kynges chefe offycer. He bad me go a pylgrymage, to my payne, And I knowe well I shall neuer come agayne.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Pearl
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The publication of Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was a literary event, garnering front-page reviews on two continents. Armitage now turns his attentions to another beloved medieval English masterpiece attributed to the same anonymous author, reanimating it with contemporary vigor. Honoring the rhythms and alliterative music of the original, Armitage’s translation describes a man mourning the loss of his Pearl, something that has “slipped away.” Drawn back to the garden where his Pearl disappeared, he falls asleep, dreaming of a radiant apparition. Much like Dante’s Beatrice, this maiden leads him through the throes of grief toward divine redemption. Armitage’s lyrical translation—presented here with facing original text—is a circular and perfected whole, like the Pearl itself.
The Elder Edda: Myths, Gods, and Heroes from the Viking World (Legends from the Ancient North)
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Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
'I was in the East, battling giants,
wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;
great would be the giant-race, if they all lived:
mankind would be nothing under, middle-earth.
What did you do meantime, Grey-beard?'
J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.
Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
The Story of Hong Gildong (Penguin Classics)
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The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart, Robin Hood, it has been adapted into countless movies, television shows, novels and comics. Its memorable lines are known to virtually every Korean by heart. Until now, this incredible 19th century fable has been all but inaccessible to English readers.
Hong Gildong, the brilliant but illegitimate son of a government minister, cannot advance in society due to his secondary status, so he leaves home to become the leader of a band of outlaws who rob the rich to give to the poor. On the way to building his own empire and gaining acceptance from his family, Hong Gildong vanquishes assassins, battles monsters, and conquers kingdoms. Minsoo Kang's expressive and animated new translation finally makes the original text of this classic available in English, re-introducing a noble and righteous outlaw and sharing a beloved hallmark of Korean culture.
Oxford (City Of) Street Atlas
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Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso
O Negocio do Jair - A historia proibida do cla Bolsonaro (Em Portugues do Brasil)
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Resultado de mais de três anos de apuração, O Negócio do A história proibida do clã Bolsonaro desvenda o passado secreto da família que hoje comanda o Brasil. A jornalista Juliana Dal Piva parte do escândalo das rachadinhas exposto pelo caso Queiroz, a partir de dezembro de 2018, para contar uma história que remonta à entrada de Jair Bolsonaro na política na década de 1990.
No centro do passado que o clã tenta abafar, está um esquema de corrupção conhecido entre os participantes como o “Negócio do Jair”. O arranjo ocorria nos gabinetes funcionais ocupados pela família de Bolsonaro em seus mandatos políticos, seja de vereador, deputado estadual ou federal, e envolvia seus três filhos mais velhos, as duas ex-esposas e a atual, amigos, familiares ― muitos deles atuando como funcionários fantasmas ―, além de advogados e milicianos.
Com base em depoimentos exclusivos, cópias sigilosas dos autos judiciais, mais de cinquenta entrevistas, mil páginas em documentos, vídeos e gravações de áudio, a autora demonstra como, à sombra dos grandes esquemas partidários, o clã acumulou milhões de reais e construiu o projeto político autoritário e regressivo que conduziria o chefe da família ao posto mais alto da República. Editora : Zahar; 1ª edição (9 setembro 2022)
Idioma : Português
Capa comum : 328 páginas
ISBN-10 : 6559790800
ISBN-13 : 978-6559790807
Dimensões : 14 x 1.9 x 21 cm
El descubrimiento de las brujas
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Empieza con la ausencia y el deseo. Empieza con sangre y miedo. Empieza con el descubrimiento de las brujas. En el corazon de la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford la apasionada historiadora Diana Bishop se topa en medio de sus investigaciones con el manuscrito identificado como Ashmole 782. Descendiente de un antiguo linaje de brujas Diana intuye que el manuscrito esta relacionado de alguna manera con la magia pero no quiere tener nada que ver con la brujeria. Y despues de tomar algunas notas sobre sus curiosos dibujos lo devuelve sin perder mas tiempo a las estanterias. Lo que Diana no sabe es que se trata de un manuscrito alquimico que ha estado perdido durante siglos y cuyo descubrimiento ha desencadenado que hordas de daimones vampiros y brujas salgan a la luz de las salas de lectura de la Biblioteca. Una de esas criaturas es Matthew Clairmont un enigmatico genetista amante del buen vino y vampiro milenario cuya alianza con Diana se hara progresivamente mas intima y poco a poco surgira entre ambos una relacion que hara tambalear los tabues asentados desde hace tiempo en un mundo secreto y encantado. La teoria de la evolucion de Darwin no contemplo todos los seres que habitan la Tierra pero Deborah Harkness lo ha hecho en esta emocionante e ingeniosa novela. Desde Oxford a Nueva York y de aqui a Francia la magia la alquimia y la ciencia nos desvelan sus verdaderos vinculos en el libro definitivo sobre la brujeria y sus poderes. Los lectores a los que les gusto La historiadora o La sombra del viento disfrutaran al maximo con este apasionante debut . Publishers Weekly. Una original fantasia con toda la magia de Harry Potter o Crepusculo Un irresistible cuento de brujeria ciencia y amor prohibido. El descubrimiento te dejara ansioso a la espera de su continuacion. Una primera novela que lanza un particular encantamiento . People
Storia di un tagliabambù
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"L'antenato e il primo ad apparire di tutti i 'monogatari'", così Murasaki Shikibu (XI secolo) consacra "Storia di un tagliabambù", testo risalente al 909 ca. Il termine 'monogatari' caratterizza una prosa, spesso inframmezzata da componimenti poetici, che si identifica con la grande pagina letteraria di epoca Heian (794-1185). "Storia di un tagliabambù" è il primo 'monogatari' perché l'anonimo autore racconta in modo nuovo una storia presa dalla tradizione orale, dandole una struttura narrativa che rimarrà nei secoli. L'estensore del testo è senza dubbio da identificare in un intellettuale, buon conoscitore della lingua cinese e così vicino all'ambiente di corte da permettersi di adombrare personaggi realmente esistiti.
Storia di Ochikubo
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Al pari di tante altre opere della narrativa giapponese classica, tuttora ignota è l'identità dell'autore di "Storia di Ochikubo". Di certo, a giudicare per lo meno dallo stile e dalla terminologia di molti passi, l'opera fu il frutto della fantasia di uno dei numerosi aristocratici che nel corso della prima metà del periodo Heian (794-1185) produssero letteratura a uso e consumo delle dame di corte di Kyoto. Per molti secoli il romanzo fu attribuito a Minamoto no Shitago (911-983), letterato e poeta il cui nome è legato ad altri due testi del periodo: il "Taketori monogatari" (inizio X secolo) e l'"Utsuho monogatari" (fine X secolo). Il più antico manoscritto dell'"Ochikubo monogatari" esistente è una copia della metà del XV secolo.
Den spyeghel der salicheyt van Elckerlijc
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De Elckerlijc (voluit: Den Spyeghel der Salicheyt van Elckerlijc - Hoe dat elckerlijc mensche wert ghedaecht Gode rekeninghe te doen) is een 15e-eeuwse Nederlandse moraliteit of zinnespel. De schrijver is niet bekend, maar het stuk wordt wel toegeschreven aan Peter van Diest (1454-1507), maar ook aan de kartuizer Petrus Dorlandus (1451-1507), vicarius van het klooster te Zelem bij Diest.
God beklaagt zich over de verdorvenheid van de mensen. Hij roept de Dood bij zich: Elckerlijc (de naam staat voor "elk mens", "iedereen") moet verantwoording gaan afleggen van zijn leven.
Elkerlijc krijgt de opdracht een pelgrimstocht te ondernemen (d.w.z. hij krijgt te horen, dat hij moet sterven). Elckerlijc probeert tevergeefs de Dood om te kopen: hij krijgt geen uitstel. Wel mag hij op zijn tocht een reisgenoot meenemen.
Hij doet daarop een beroep op verschillende mensen om hem te vergezellen, maar Gheselscap (zijn vrienden), Maghe en Neve (vrienden, familie) en Tgoet (het bezit, geld en goederen) weigeren dit als zij vernemen wat de eindbestemming is van de reis. De Duecht (deugd) is te zwak voor de reis, maar diens zuster Kennisse (zelfkennis) brengt Elckerlijc bij Biechte (biecht).
Elckerlijc doet boete, waardoor Duecht weer op krachten komt.
Vergezeld door Schoonheyt (schoonheid), Cracht (kracht), Vroetscap (wijsheid) en Vijf Sinnen (zintuigen) aanvaardt hij de tocht.
Mariken van Nieumeghen: Een mirakelspel
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A drama in medieval Dutch that provides the first known example of the play-within-a-play device. The text is based on the chapbook of around 1518. In a remarkable parallel to the Faust chapbook, a young woman enters into an agreement with the devil, offering her soul for knowledge and wisdom.
I Nibelunghi
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La storia d'amore di Sigfrido e Crimilde e le cruente imprese di Attila e Teodorico costituiscono i due cicli del maggior poema epico germanico, formato da 39 canti o avventure, scritto nel Duecento da autore ignoto. Combattendo contro i Nibelunghi (stirpe di nani che vivono nelle viscere della terra), il giovane eroe Sigfrido conquista un immenso tesoro e alcuni poteri magici: la spada che uccide ciò che tocca, il cappuccio che rende invisibili, l'anello che moltiplica le forze. Ma non sempre la magia è sufficiente a difendersi dalla morte... Crimilde vendicherà Sigfrido in un crescendo di lotte che causeranno il massacro di due interi popoli. Un classico della letteratura di tutti i tempi che ha avuto in Richard Wagner e nella sua ben nota tetralogia del Reno il massimo esegeta.
To Fall (The To Fall Trilogy, #1)
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God gave His angels the choice to fall, and for one heartbeat, Xander wished He hadn’t.
Angels don’t freak out. Ever. So when Xander Wright experiences his first freak out moment, he keeps it a secret…for twenty years. Forced by his siblings to finally pitch in and help with their assignment, Xander comes face to face with Abby Miller’s beautiful brown eyes again. Seeing her now as a young woman, Xander knows with all of his being that his heart and soul belong to Abby. They always have.
With demons clamoring to kill God’s Ordained Soul, Xander struggles to keep Abby’s identity a secret from Lucifer’s spawn and Abby, as well. Nothing could have prepared Xander for falling in love with a human, but as Guardian of the First Choir of angels, he will fight the forces of Heaven, Hell, and Abby’s weak heart to keep her alive. A life without Abby would be his own Hell, but to be with her, Xander must give up all he is and break his Vow to God. His one desire and his one fear are the same.
To fall for Abby.
*The To Fall Trilogy is intended for a mature audience due to adult content, graphic scenes and sensitive subject matter.
Sindbad the Sailor
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'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.'
A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
El si de las ninas + CD
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Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
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In this volume you will find 27 uniquely Slavonic and Cossack stories like "The Story Of Unlucky Daniel," "The Vampire And St Michael," "The Tsar And The Angel," "The Story Of Ivan And The Daughter Of The Sun" and more not heard in the west for many a year. This volume of stories has been selected from a Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales. The language is Ruthenian, or the language of the Cossacks. This was the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English. There are peculiar and original elements in these stories not to be found in the folk-lore of other European peoples, The comparative isolation of the Cossacks, and their remoteness from the great theaters of historical events, has seen favorable conditions for the safe preservation of old myths and the easy development of new ones. Ruthenian is a language intermediate between Russian and Polish, but independent of both. Its territory embraces, that vast area which lies between the Carpathian Mountains and the Sea of Azov, with Lemberg and Kiev for its chief intellectual centers. Until independence the language was rigorously repressed by the Soviet Government, and has since been a foundation from which modern Ukrainian has been developed. It possesses a noble literature, numerous folk-songs and a copious collection of justly admired folk-tales, many of them of great antiquity, which are regarded, both in Russia and Poland, as quite unique of their kind. 33% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity. YESTERDAY'S BOOKS for TODAY'S CHARITIES
Arden of Faversham
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This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title
page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays
scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the
title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman'
and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright
with great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance
the motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the
rapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was
murdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers,
it turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who
hoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to
this edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central
theme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably
the best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.
Beowulf: Old English Edition
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In this innovative edition, the Old English verse text of Beowulf is faced by a pageon which almost every word is glossed, giving readers direct access to the original of this complex and rewarding work. This edition also includes notes, a map, a glossary of proper names and a wonderfully illuminating introduction to thr poem and its world.
Das Niebelungenlied (German Edition)
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The Nibelungenlied
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Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful princess Kriemhild of Burgundy, by aiding her brother Gunther in his struggle to seduce a powerful Icelandic Queen. But the two women quarrel, and Siegfried is ultimately destroyed by those he trusts the most. Comparable in scope to the Iliad, this skilfully crafted work combines the fragments of half-forgotten myths to create one of the greatest epic poems - the principal version of the heroic legends used by Richard Wagner, in The Ring.
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