The Song of Achilles (2011) is a creative retelling of Homer’s Iliad. The epic tale of the Trojan War is transformed into a moving love story, told from the perspective of Patroclus, the beloved companion of the Greek hero Achilles. Who should read The Song of Achilles? Hopeless romantics...
As the detractors of "Lycidas" were wrong, so the critics of "The Day Lady Died" misjudged the poet’s conversational ease and seemingly self-centered stance…. [It] is a moving elegy not in spite of the poem’s preoccupation with the poet’s self but because of it; the death of the...
I think in large part, a kind of hunger, an impatience, to bust out of the confines of what sometimes feels like the narrowness of American individualistic conceptions of self, emotions, trauma, suffering. My years of doing fieldwork all over the world as an anthropologist have introduced me...
a这是我第一次用英语写日记 This is I first time keeps a diary with English[translate] a他和我都没有受过良好的教育 He and I all have not received the good education[translate] a我得了感冒 My cold[translate] abe planned for 正在翻译,请等待...[translate] ...
never spoke English and was illiterate, he is often credited with making England the most powerful country in Europe. Now William's son was William II of Orange who fathered William III of Aquitane who married Mary Stuart but they had no children, so George III fathered William IV...Whew...
best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare and Tennyson, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. The ‘Must-Have’ Complete Collection In this irresistible collection you get a full set of Pope’s work, ...
The title is taken from William Cowper’s translation of Book II of Homer’s Iliad: “The vulture’s maw / Shall have his carcase, and the dogs his bones.” Graham Greene’s political thriller Stamboul Train (1932, also known as Orient Express). Onboard a train from Ostend, Belgium to...
s Iliad he plays an important role during the Trojan War where he battles against the greatest warriors of Troy including Hector, Ajax and Paris. The name itself originates from Ancient Greek ‘akhi-los’, meaning “without lips“. The literal translation of the name may be interpreted as ...
B. Traven’s sea-going adventure Das Totenschiff (Death Ship; English translation, 1934). When his ship leaves without him, Gerard Gales, an American merchant seamen, finds himself stranded in Antwerp without passport or working papers. He is repeatedly arrested and deported from one country to...
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination. By Javier Cercas. Bloomsbury; 403 pages; $18 and £18.99 The most widely read book on the 1981 failed coup in Spain, which was first published in 2009 and has now been translated into English. A persuasive and abs...