Download or read book The Nameless Castle written by Mór Jókai and published by Publio Kiadó Kft.. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a man who has earned such titles as "The Shakespeare of Hungary" and "The Glory of Hungarian Literature"; who published in fifty years three hundred and fifty novels, dramas, and miscellaneous works, not to mention innumerable articles for the press that owes its freedom chiefly to him, it seems incredible that there was ever a time of indecision as to what career he was best fitted to follow. The idle life of the nobility into which Maurus Jókay was born in 1825 had no attractions for a strongly intellectual boy, fired with zeal and energy that carried him easily to the head of each class in school and college; nor did he feel any attraction for the prosaic practice of law, his father's profession, to which Austria's despotism drove many a nobleman in those wretched days for Hungary. It was Pétofi, the poet, who was his dearest friend during the student-life at Pápa; idealism ever attracted him, and, by natural gravitation toward the finest minds, he chose the friendship of young men who quickly rose into eminence during the days of revolution and invasion that tried men's souls.

Download or read book Palace of Narcissus written by Kit Ludlow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Palace of Narcissus" is the ninth canto of Kit Ludlow's art-poetry epic, Orpheus. Years have passed since Orpheus journeyed into Hades to retrieve his wife. That adventure failed due to his cursed look back. After Bedlam, the famed poet wandered into Sheol, a forgotten underworld. He had no narrative; only lyrical verse to make sense of the world. In the fifth canto, Orpheus awakens from his daze to begin the reclamation of his wife, poetry. Orpheus, in the sixth canto, realizes he must sacrifice himself to Dionysus. In the seventh, "Dance for Danace", Orpheus discovers that he is no one. As no one, he calls for Charon to ferry him across the Styx and to the gates of Hades. There he tells Charon to pity the suicides. In the eighth canto, Orpheus is confronted by the sorrows of the shallow. There he must decide to continue his journey or rest. In the ninth canto, his vanity is tested. Every line of the poem is illustrated by the poet's own artwork. All artwork is original to the canto. It is conscious-made through many techniques and artistic modes (not AI generated). Follow Kit Ludlow on Instagram for future art and upcoming releases. IG: kitludlow. Subscribe to #kitludlow on Instagram for daily art posts.

Download or read book The Musical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Zealot written by Simon Scarrow and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling adventures of two Roman centurions continue as they’re called to stop a threat rising in the Empire’s eastern provinces. Trouble is brewing on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. The troops are in a deplorable state, while the corrupt behavior of their senior officers threatens to undermine the army’s control of the region. To restore competence of the men defending a vital fort, two experienced centurions are dispatched to Judea. On their arrival Cato and Macro discover that Bannus, a local tribesman, is fomenting rebellion among the followers of Jehoshua, who was crucified in Jerusalem some seventeen years earlier. As the local revolt grows, Rome’s longstanding enemy Parthia is poised to invade, Cato and Macro must stamp out corruption in the cohort before the Eastern provinces are lost forever . . . Simon Scarrow’s Roman Legion series chronicling the adventures of centurions Cato and Macro has been met with near universal acclaim, drawing comparisons to the best of his contemporaries including Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, and Harry Sidebottom. A master of his craft, Simon Scarrow combines stunning historical detail with riveting battles and rich characters to bring the Roman Empire to life as never before. Originally published in the UK as The Eagle in the Sand Praise for Simon Scarrow’s Roman Legion series “I really don’t need this kind of competition.” —Bernard Cornwell “Scarrow manages to summon up all the glory and the gore that characterized life in the Roman legions. Outstanding . . . a new master of the genre.” —Booklist “A combustible concoction of intrigue, treachery, and violence. . . . Scarrow’s combat is brutal and sanguinary; his imperial politics are almost as sharp.” —Publishers Weekly “Scarrow again provides a vivid sense of history and believable scenes of maritime action. His righteous but flawed protagonists are winning heroes.” —Kirkus Reviews “All the hallmarks of Bernard Cornwell at his best.” —Oxford Times

Download or read book Light Goddess written by Cloris Athena and published by Outskirts Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magic world in the Flower Goddess Fairyland. Snow and ice, flower sea and the pixie forest. Path of art and magic, the wonderland and the great journey...... On the border of the Dark Land and the Light World, there is a great war burning grandly. A handsome boy in silver armor, with a long spear in hands, he was fighting hundreds of the dark knights. On the far side of the battlefield, the Moon Goddess Diana is fighting hundreds of ice dragons and fire dragons. The mighty forces of light are fighting fiercely against the mighty forces of darkness. Millions of evil demons and enormous dragons, against millions of the brave knights and great fairies...... In the brilliant nebula sea, there is a huge Souls Tree blooming gorgeously in the Flower Goddess Fairyland, on this holy Souls Tree, every bud of soul will split in two light pixies and fly to different worlds, fall in different bodies, then growing and shining. They always have the same beginning, but eventually get in the different paths...... Long long time ago, in the Phoenix Nebula, there was a blue white star bursting into pure gorgeous light, “Even if let me live in the brilliant Mermaid Sea all my life, and eat thousands of the dazzling moon jellyfishes every day until choke me to death, I still must be a great musician of the whole fairy world! And in the world of countless evil demons, fire dragons and ice griffins, I will fight them bravely with the Lyre of Apollo, the Sword of Athena, and the Spear of the Valkyries!” Once Ori lived in a tragic world of ice dragons and fire dragons, he wanted to be a great musician when he was very little, but he was tortured by his fire demon father and ice griffin mother in the Dark Sunflower Sea Pixies Castle. At six years old, he got in the Diana College of the Moon Goddess Magic, but always bullied by his iceberg demon wolf classmates and evil siren teachers. When he nearly died in the flying snow pixies, he was just saved by the Light Goddess Florithena, she taking the child’s hand, then flying to a new gorgeous world of shining pixies, beautiful peris and flower fairies. Forget everything you ever knew, just don’t be surprised at everything you will see, everything of everything......

Download or read book Caesar Dies written by Talbot Mundy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caesar Dies" by Talbot Mundy. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roman History written by William Wolfe Capes and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agrippina written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence, Barrett argues that Agrippina has been misjudged. Although she was ambitious, says Barrett, she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive. After Agrippina's marriage to Claudius there was a marked decline in the number of judicial executions and there was close cooperation between the Senate and the emperor; the settlement of Cologne, founded under her aegis, was a model of social harmony; and the first five years of Nero's reign, while she was still alive, were the most enlightened of his rule. According to Barrett, Agrippina's one real failing was her relationship with her son, the monster of her own making who had her murdered in horrific and violent circumstances.

Download or read book An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Painting written by James Cahill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Download or read book Anthology of Young Adult Modern Myths Volume II written by Various Authors and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following short stories is a collection of modern mythological tales written by a group of young adults.

Download or read book High Cross written by Brian J. Croasdell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demolition of native states continues to fuel the expansion of the Roman Province of Britain. Compliant British rulers are supported while defiant ones are overthrown. The Order of the Druids, the single most important unifying institution among the Celtic tribes is being systematically destroyed. But, the introduction of a single currency, a common scale of weights and measures, a single official language, a common legal system and the opening of Britain to the World economy is all at risk. There are reports of counterfeiting on an industrial scale and, at the moment of the extinction of a Druids, a catastrophic native uprising brings the Province to the brink of collapse.

Download or read book The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi written by Jacqueline Park and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in sixteenth-century Istanbul during the illustrious Ottoman Empire, The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi chronicles the fate of Grazia’s son, Danilo, and his forbidden love affair with Princess Saida, the Sultan’s beloved daughter. Judah del Medigo, Jewish physician to the Sultan at the Ottoman court and husband of Grazia dei Rossi, has been misinformed that his son, Danilo, perished at sea on the way to Istanbul. When the two are eventually reunited, Judah’s first thought is to resign from the Sultan’s service to devote himself to his son’s recovery. But the Great Suleiman is not about to give up his valued Chief Body Physician. A ruler accustomed to getting his way, the Sultan proposes a bargain: he offers the boy a place in the harem school for royal children, plus the services of his own mother as guardian while the doctor is absent during campaign season in Baghdad. It is an opportunity that Judah cannot deny his son. Danilo is assigned as his tutor the princess Saida, the Sultan’s beloved daughter. At first the two resent each other deeply. But as Danilo and Saida approach adulthood they fall in love and begin a forbidden romance. Fate has decreed that Saida will marry a husband of the Sultan’s choosing, and Danilo will return to Italy to study medicine just as his father did. For a princess preparing for marriage, a dalliance with an unrelated male would cast a stain on the Sultan’s honour that could only be avenged by death... A tantalizing look at life in the Ottoman court, The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi is a sweeping historical romance and the long-awaited follow-up to the international sensation The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi.

Download or read book Roman History the Early Empire written by William Wolfe Capes and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Discovery of Ru Kiln written by Qingzheng Wang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masters of Rome written by Robert Fabbri and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britannia, 45 AD: In the shadow of Stonehenge, Vespasian's brother, Sabinus, is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods - not just one Roman Legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother, and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on a summer's day. But to whom will they be making this sacrifice? What were the gods of this land before the Celts came? Only the druids still hold the secret and it is one of pure evil. Vespasian must strive to save his brother whilst completing the conquest of the haunted isle, before he is drawn inexorably back to Rome and the heart of Imperial politics. Claudius' three freedmen remain at the locus of power. As Messalina's time as Empress comes to a bloody end, the three freedmen each back a different mistress. But which woman will be victorious? And at what price for Vespasian?

Download or read book Under the Eagle Eagles of the Empire 1 written by Simon Scarrow and published by Headline. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! UNDER THE EAGLE is the gripping first novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE series. A must read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Praise for Simon Scarrow's compelling novels: 'Gripping and moving' The Times AD 42, Germany. Tough, brutal and unforgiving. That's how new recruit Cato is finding life in the Roman Second Legion. He may have contacts in high places, but he could really use a friend amongst his fellow soldiers right now. Cato has been promoted above his comrades at the order of the Emperor and is deeply resented by the other men. But he quickly earns the respect of his Centurion, Macro, a battle-hardened veteran as rough and ready as Cato is quick-witted and well-educated. They are poles apart, but soon realise they have a lot to learn from one another. On a campaign to Britannia - a land of utter barbarity - an enduring friendship begins. But as they undertake a special mission to thwart a conspiracy against the Emperor they rapidly find themselves in a desperate fight to survive...