Download or read book Moral Fables written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside his monumental Notebooks and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces, mostly in the form of gently humorous dialogues, in which he dealt with philosophical ideas and many of the metaphysical questions that preoccupied his restless spirit.First published in 1827 and here presented in a new translation by J.G. Nichols along with Thoughts, Leopardi's own selected pearls of wisdom and gems of social observation, this volume will enchant both those who are familiar with and those who are new to the works of Italy's last great polymath.
Download or read book Fables of the Self written by Rosanna Warren and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fables of the Self traces ideas of imagined selfhood through the lyric poetry of classical Greece and Rome, the modernist poetry of France, and modern and contemporary English and American lyrics. Rosanna Warren's work emerges from the tradition of British and American poet-critics such as William Empson, Donald Davie, and Randall Jarrell. Her readings of Sappho, Virgil, Baudelaire, Melville, Rimbaud, Mark Strand, and Louise Glück, among others, combine Helen Vendler's passionate attention to detail and something of Harold Bloom's panoramic view. Warren opposes both the literalizing, autobiographical approach to self in so-called confessional poetry and the other extreme of avant-garde erasures of self. Framing her critical studies between a memoir of childhood and a concluding journal entry, Warren has composed an occult autobiography, showing the imagination as a transfiguring and potentially moral force.
Download or read book Aesop s Fables written by Aesop and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canterbury Tales' is a collection of 24 stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, three years later, Clerk of the King's work. It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, 'The Canterbury Tales'. The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.
Download or read book The Fool and Other Moral Tales written by Anne Serre and published by Les Fugitives. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To make a pact with the thing that threatens you is arguably the smartest trick of all.' From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre come three bewitching, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales, in which kernels of trauma, loss, loneliness and obsession are glimpsed through the glittering gauze of fiction. 'The Fool' may have stepped out of a tarot pack - to walk a mountain trail or worm his way into a writer's mind. 'The Narrator' proposes his mirror image, a storyteller in sheep's clothing, who has a bone to pick with language. The power of narrative to trump a stark reality is perhaps at its strongest in the last story; in 'The Wishing Table' the orgiastic antics of an incestuous family are recounted by one of three daughters. A dream logic rules each of these unpredictable, sensual, and surreal stories: romps no doubt, yet deeply moral, and entirely unforgettable ones.
Download or read book The Works written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Tales written by Jules Laforgue and published by New York : New Directions. This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides humorous parodies of the stories of Hamlet, Lohengrin, Salome, Perseus, and Pan, and includes information about the author's life and times
Download or read book Poetic Amusement Consisting of a Sample of Sonnets Epistolary Poems Moral Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces written by Rev. Thomas Beck and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jabberwocky written by Lewis Carroll and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the classic nonsense poem from "Through the Looking Glass."
Download or read book Poetry Its Origin Nature and History written by Frederick A. Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The fable of the Bees written by Bernard de Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1724 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Folktales written by Shiho S. Nunes and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers have delighted listeners with stories about the value of virtues like honesty, respect, courage and self-reliance. Chinese Folktales collects nineteen of these fantastic tales, some of them dating back to the third century BCE, and retells them in contemporary English for a modern audience. This updated edition--previously titled Chinese Fables--offers the same great stories in a smaller, easier to handle format at a lower price. Each of these stories offers a nugget of ancient folk wisdom and glimpses of traditional Chinese culture and lore. All of the tales express the foibles and wisdom of human experience with great humor and affection. Although the lessons are universal, the wit and flavor are uniquely Chinese. Beautifully illustrated by a master Chinese artist using a patchwork of ancient tones and textures, with a deft touch of humor, this book will give great joy to children and adults alike. Chinese children's stories include: The Practical Bride Stealing the Bell Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy Cooking the Duck Scaring the Tigers The Dragon Slayer The previously published edition, Chinese Fables, won: *The Aesop Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature* *The Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Fables, Folklore & Fairytales* *The Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award*
Download or read book Monsieur Bossu s Treatise of the Epick Poem written by René Le Bossu and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moral Fables of Robert Henryson written by Robert Henryson and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poems of Robert Henryson written by Robert Henryson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unwitting Wisdom written by Aesop and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated adaptation of twelve animal fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.
