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Lewis Spence Hero Tales And Legends Of The Rhine

Art
English
106232 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

There Are Many Rivers Whose Celebrity Is Of Much Greater Antiquity Than That Of The Rhine. The Nile And The Ganges Are Intimately Associated With The Early History Of Civilization And The Mysterious Beginnings Of Wisdom; The Tiber Is Eloquent Of That Vanished Empire Which Was The First To Carry The Torch Of Advancement Into The Dark Places Of Barbarian Europe; The Name Of The Jordan Is Sacred To Thousands As That First Heard In Infancy And Linked With Lives And Memories Divine. But, Universal As Is The Fame Of These Rivers, None Of Them Has Awakened In The Breasts Of The Dwellers On Their Banks Such A Fervent Devotion, Such Intense Enthusiasm, Or Such A Powerful Patriotic Appeal As Has The Rhine, At Once The River, The Frontier, And The Palladium Of The German Folk. [more]

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Robert E. Howard Conan - The Complete Robert E Howard Conan Series (Illustrated)

Science Fiction
English
328979 Words
Ages 10 and up
602
0

18 original Conan Stories by Robert E. Howard Cimmeria - A Poem The Phoenix on the Sword The Scarlet Citadel The Tower of the Elephant Black Colossus The Slithering Shadow or Xuthal of the Dusk The Pool of the Black One Rogues in the House Gods of the North Iron Shadows in the Moon or Shadows in the Moonlight Queen of the Black Coast The Devil in Iron The People of the Black Circle A Witch Shall be Born Jewels of Gwahlur Beyond the Black River Shadows in Zamboula or Man-Eaters of Zamboula Conan the Conqueror or The Hour of the Dragon Red Nails The Hyborian Age Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. [more]

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Various Various The Great Events By Famous Historians, Volume 4 (Fiscal Part I)

History
English
160381 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
1

Our Modern Civilization Is Built Up On Three Great Corner-Stones, Three Inestimably Valuable Heritages From The Past. The Graeco-Roman Civilization Gave Us Our Arts And Our Philosophies, The Bases Of Intellectual Power. The Hebrews Bequeathed To Us The Religious Idea, Which Has Saved Man From Despair, Has Been The Potent Stimulus To Two Thousand Years Of Endurance And Hope. The Teutons Gave Us A Healthy, Sturdy, Uncontaminated Physique, Honest Bodies And Clean Minds, The Lack Of Which Had Made Further Progress Impossible To The Ancient World. This Last Is What Made Necessary The Barbarian Overthrow Of Rome, If The World Was Still To Advance. The Slowly Progressing Knowledge Of The Arts And Handicrafts Which We Have Seen Passed Down From Egypt To Babylonia, To Persia, Greece, And Rome, Had Not Been Acquired Without Heavy Loss. [more]

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Shante` Grayer Wait For It

Drama
English
2498 Words
Ages 14 and up
562
2

Christopher Strong has one goal - to get the hell out of his fathers house and go off to college and never see him again. But his very own hell on earth couldn't come any quicker. His verbally abusive and sometimes physically abusive father is the absolute main cause of his plight. Even the school bullies hot on his trail couldn't compare. But there is some good in Chris's life. He has a great job working weekends for two lovely ladies. He has a best friend who's always keeping him company whether Chris wants him to or not . And after standing up and defending the school bullies' main punching bag, Chris is getting a lot more attention in school. More invites to parties, more girls heading checking him out, and that means more trouble too. But as things are starting to pick up in his favor, Chris discovers a secret meant to stay buried, and it gets him tangled up in more trouble than he could ever have imagined. Now, not only are his new friends in danger, but his future beyond high school. His barbarian thug of a father is withholding secrets that Chris needs answers to, and he needs them quickly before someone gets hurt or worse. This is the life of Christopher Strong. [more]

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F.A.M. Mignet History Of The French Revolution From 1789 To 1814

History
English
161765 Words
Ages 18 and up
3
3

Of The Great Incidents Of History, None Has Attracted More Attention Or Proved More Difficult Of Interpretation Than The French Revolution. The Ultimate Significance Of Other Striking Events And Their Place In The Development Of Mankind Can Be Readily Estimated. It Is Clear Enough That The Barbarian Invasions Marked The Death Of The Classical World, Already Mortally Wounded By The Rise Of Christianity. It Is Clear Enough That The Renaissance Emancipated The Human Intellect From The Trammels Of A Bastard Mediaevalism, That The Reformation Consolidated The Victory Of The "New Learning" By Including Theology Among The Subjects Of Human Debate. But The French Revolution Seems To Defy Complete Analysis. Its Complexity Was Great, Its Contradictions Numerous And Astounding. A Movement Ostensibly Directed Against Despotism Culminated In The Establishment Of A Despotism Far More Complete Than That Which Had Been Overthrown. The Apostles Of Liberty Proscribed Whole Classes Of Their Fellow-Citizens, Drenching In Innocent Blood The Land Which They Claimed To Deliver From Oppression [more]

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Thucydides None The History Of The Peloponnesian War (Fiscle Part-3)

History
English
211438 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Thucydides, An Athenian, Wrote The History Of The War Between The Peloponnesians And The Athenians, Beginning At The Moment That It Broke Out, And Believing That It Would Be A Great War And More Worthy Of Relation Than Any That Had Preceded It. This Belief Was Not Without Its Grounds. The Preparations Of Both The Combatants Were In Every Department In The Last State Of Perfection; And He Could See The Rest Of The Hellenic Race Taking Sides In The Quarrel; Those Who Delayed Doing So At Once Having It In Contemplation. Indeed This Was The Greatest Movement Yet Known In History, Not Only Of The Hellenes, But Of A Large Part Of The Barbarian World--I Had Almost Said Of Mankind. For Though The Events Of Remote Antiquity, And Even Those That More Immediately Preceded The War, Could Not From Lapse Of Time Be Clearly Ascertained, Yet The Evidences Which An Inquiry Carried As Far Back As Was Practicable Leads Me To Trust, All Point To The Conclusion That There Was Nothing On A Great Scale, Either In War Or In Other Matters. [more]

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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

Fiction
English
38106 Words
Ages 12 and up
274
2

Heart of Darkness is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.” In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz. The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness one of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. [more]

Keywords: heart of darkness, joseph conrad, modern literature, mystery novel, historical fiction, africa

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Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy

Essay
English
56234 Words
No Age Recommendation
476
2

Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection". His often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. The book contains most of the terms - culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others - which are more associated with Arnold's work influence. [more]

Keywords: culture and anarchy, matthew arnold, essays, history, politics, psychology, literature and art, humanities, civilization, social science, philosophy, cultural studies

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Robert E. Howard 3 Kull Stories of Robert E. Howard (Illustrated)

Science Fiction
English
27997 Words
Ages 14 and up
327
0

3 Kull Stories The Shadow Kingdom The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune Kings of the Night 3 short adventure tales from the creator of Conan the Barbarian Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously illustrated by Jim and Ruth Keegan, includes some of his best and most popular works. Inside, readers will discover (or rediscover) such gems as “The Shadow Kingdom,” featuring Kull of Atlantis and considered by many to be the first sword-and-sorcery story; “The Fightin’est Pair,” part of one of Howard’s most successful series, chronicling the travails of Steve Costigan, a merchant seaman with fists of steel and a head of wood; “The Grey God Passes,” a haunting tale about the passing of an age, told against the backdrop of Irish history and legend; “Worms of the Earth,” a brooding narrative featuring Bran Mak Morn, about which H. P. Lovecraft said, “Few readers will ever forget the hideous and compelling power of [this] macabre masterpiece”; a historical poem relating a momentous battle between Cimbri and the legions of Rome; and “Sharp’s Gun Serenade,” one of the last and funniest of the Breckinridge Elkins tales. These thrilling, eerie, compelling, swashbuckling stories and poems have been restored to their original form, presented just as the author intended. There is little doubt that after more than seven decades the voice of Robert E. Howard continues to resonate with readers around the world. [more]

Keywords: conan

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Robert E. Howard THE CONAN SAGA

The Complete Epic

Fantasy
English
371197 Words
Ages 16 and up
1032
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"Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of fantasy, and most of his Conan tales seem to almost fall over themselves in their need to get out." - Stephen King "A hero of mythic proportion, fashioned by a storyteller who helped define what a modern fantasy should be. "Rogues in the House" is one of the finest tales of sword and sorcery ever written." - Raymond E. Feist "Handsome." - Fantasy and Science Fiction Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age. Collected together in one volume are - besides the poem Cimmeria - A Poem (1932) and the essay The Hyborian Age - Conan's World (1936) - Robert E. Howard's tales of the legendary hero, as fresh and atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago: The Tower Of The Elephant (1933), Rogues In The House (1934), Shadows In The Moonlight (1934), Black Colossus (1933), Queen Of The Black Coast (1934), The Slithering Shadow (1933), A Witch Shall Be Born (1934), The Devil In Iron (1934), The People Of The Black Circle (1934), Shadows In Zamboula (1935), The Pool Of The Black One (1930), Beyond The Black River (1935), The Black Stranger (1932), Red Nails (1936), Jewels Of Gwalhur (1935), The Phoenix On The Sword (1932), The Scarlet Citadel (1933) and The Hour Of The Dragon (1935). [more]

Keywords: Apex-Verlag

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