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...
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...
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First Published: 2009-02-10 Original Language: English Language PurchaseView on AMAZON 15 Tempus Die lebende Legende Janet Morris 4 votes Tempus is the German Language translation of the English language Tempus, a book written by Janet Morris. First Published: 1987 Subjects: Ancient sexuality, Magi...
Although he 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...
“It's the name of an English Lord, said his father with dismissive impatience. That was how he said most things, and only his mother found it charming, and then not always and later not at all. Not even his father called him Earl or Earl Thomas or Tommy. He called him The Boy to...
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, ...
To Zeus, the archpatriarchal bourgeois, the birth of the first woman is but a huge Olympian jest… Such myths are a necessary outcome of the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy… Denys Page’s 1959 book, History and the Homeric Iliad, like similar books in this University of California ...
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...
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...