The Leaves of the Tree

The Leaves of the Tree
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1911
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

A collection of character sketches of famous men.

Yvain

Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987-09-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300187580

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

Bristol Brass

Bristol Brass
Author: Joan Day
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1973
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The Acharnians

The Acharnians
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1625580681

Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.

Alderdene

Alderdene
Author: Norris Paul
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1890
Genre:
ISBN:

Old Bristol Potteries

Old Bristol Potteries
Author: W. J. Pountney
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781527771659

Excerpt from Old Bristol Potteries: Being an Account of the Old Potters and Potteries of Bristol and Brislington, Between 1650 and 1850, With Some Pages on the Old Chapel of St. Anne, Brislington About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.