Dante
Les Miserables Volume 3 Marius BOOK SIXTH. THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS CHAPTER VI TAKEN PRISONER
On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. [...]
Boethius Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius – Consolation of Philosophy Hackett Publishing Company | 2001 | ISBN: 0872205843 | Pages: 240 | PDF | 1.60 MB Joel Relihan’s translation highlights the poetry of the Consolation while remaining faithful to Boethius’ Latin. Unjustly imprisoned and waiting to die, Boethius penned his last and greatest work, Consolation of Philosophy, an imaginary dialogue [...]
Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture
Teodolinda Barolini, “Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture” Fordham University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0823227030, 0823227049| 475 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB “An autobiographical, self-reflexive meditation that traces the critic’s remarkable routes of growth into a world-class scholar.” – Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University “Barolini is one of the finest close readers [...]
Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio
Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio (Lectura Dantis) University of California Press| 412 pages | 2007 | ISBN: 0520250567 | PDF | 2 mb This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of [...]
Kiss of Crimson (The Midnight Breed Book 2)
Lara Adrian “Kiss of Crimson (The Midnight Breed, Book 2)” Dell | 2007-05-29 | ISBN: 0553589385 | 416 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that [...]
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth
Kim Paffenroth, “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth” Baylor University Press | 2006-10-30 | ISBN: 1932792651 | 195 pages | PDF | 1 MB Winner of the silver medal in popular culture for the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. This volume connects American social and religious views [...]
Power Play
J.M. Snyder,”Power Play” Publisher: iUniverse | 2003 | ISBN: 059527014X | PDF | 580 pages | 1.3 MB Ryan has been injured in a hockey game and confined to a wheelchair.Dante, who skates for the city’s short track team, has made it to the state championships and recently found a Mexican restaurant to help sponsor [...]
Creating the
Brill Academic Publishers | ISBN:9004137092 | 2004 | PDF | 2 MB | 404 pages Turning a skeptical eye on the idea that Renaissance artists were widely believed to be as utterly admirable as Vasari claimed, this book re-opens the question of why artists were praised and by whom, and specifically why the language of [...]
Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Fron
Please seed me! Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front – 6 Discs 6 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It should be ranked with Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell [...]
Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound’s ‘Cantos’ and Derek Walcott’s ‘Omeros’ as Twentieth-Century Epics
Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound’s ‘Cantos’ and Derek Walcott’s ‘Omeros’ as Twentieth-Century Epics Editions Rodopi BV | 2007 | ISBN: 9042021497 | Pages: 365 | PDF | 2.00 MB This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Ezra Pound’s Cantos through Dante’s Divina Commedia to the [...]