The Odyssey File
Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780345321084
Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780345321084
Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0099559838
Suspense fiction. Reissues of 7 of Forsyth's classic thrillers.
Author : Zachary Mason
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429952490
A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.
Author : Gareth Hinds
Publisher : Gareth Hinds
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1893131386
Fresh from his triumphs in the Trojan War, Odysseus, King of Ithaca, wants nothing more than to return home to his family. Instead, he offends the sea god, Poseidon, who dooms him to years of shipwreck and wandering. Battling man-eating monsters, violent storms, and the supernatural seductions of sirens and sorceresses, Odysseus will need all his strength and cunning--and a little help from Mount Olympus--to make his way home and seize his kingdom from the schemers who seek to wed his queen and usurp his throne. Award-winning graphic artist Gareth Hinds masterfully reinterprets a story of heroism, adventure, and high action that has been told and retold for more than 2,500 years--though never quite like this. With bold imagery and an ear tuned to the music of Homer’s epic poem, Gareth Hinds reinterprets the ancient classic as it’s never been told before.
Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780957261020
This magnificent tome is a previously unseen look behind-the-scenes at the making of this most legendary of science fiction classics. Art director Harry Lange's strikingly realistic designs for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey created an extraordinary vision of the future and they remain the epitome of filmmaking. For the first time ever, Lange's archive is explored in this stunning volume, featuring original concept sketches, designs, correspondence and on set photographs.
Author : Robert Louis Fowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521012461
The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus of the poems, the formulae, the characters and the archaeological background, there are detailed discussions of similes, speeches, the poet as story-teller and the genre of epic both within Greece and worldwide. The reception chapters include assessments of ancient Greek and Roman readings as well as selected modern interpretations from the eighteenth century to the present day. Chapters on Homer in English translation and Homer in the history of ideas round out the collection.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819628817
Author : Homer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1407066277
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? This rich and beautiful adventure story is one of the most influential works of literature in the world.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743215087
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and the powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell's startling discovery of his own origins during his teenage years. If the child is father to the man, this memoir shows the characteristics that have become familiar in the public figure known as Thomas Sowell already present in an obscure little boy born in poverty in the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression and growing up in Harlem. His marching to his own drummer, his disregard of what others say or think, even his battles with editors who attempt to change what he has written, are all there in childhood. More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also a story of the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back. It is a story not just of one life, but of life in general, with all its exhilaration and pain.
Author : Homerus
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1763
Category :
ISBN :