Download or read book The Riddle of the Sphinx Or it Must be Said written by Jonathan Frederick Walz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Riddle of Sphinx Island written by R.T. Raichev and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective story writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Hugh Payne are asked to travel to Devon in order to prevent a murder on Sphinx Island, but they are far from enthusiastic as they suspect an elaborate joke. And when they hear that one of the house party guests is Romaine Garrison -Gore, another crime writer, they have no doubt that they will walk into a rather tedious variant of the Murder Weekend. After all, it is their tenth wedding anniversary and Major Payne's aunt, Lady Grylls, has been trying to think of a truly original present for them . . . But then they receive a rather sinister letter signed 'The Riddler' and become curious . . . could the devil speak true?
Download or read book The Riddles of The Hobbit written by Adam Roberts and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit , and are key to Tolkien's creative imagination. The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien's writing in the context of Old English riddling culture, and more modern day examples; it sets out to solve the many riddles of the novel in original and often surprising ways.
Download or read book History Must Be Told 1954 written by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and published by Argo Books. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sphinx written by Christiane Zivie-Coche and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its special features and analyzing the changes it experienced throughout its history. The evidence linked to the statue will enable us to trace its evolution... down to the worship it received in the first centuries of our own era, when Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans mingled together in devotion to this colossus, illustrious witness to a past that was already more than two millennia old."--from the IntroductionThe Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformed the monument and its environs into an impressive place of pilgrimage, visited until the end of pagan antiquity.Christiane Zivie-Coche, a distinguished Egyptologist, surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various discoveries connected with it. From votive objects deposited by the faithful and inscriptions that testify to details of worship, she reconstructs the cult of Harmakhis (in Egyptian, Har-em-akhet, or "Horus-in-the-horizon"), which arose around the monument in the second millennium. "We are faced," she writes, "with a religious phenomenon that is entirely original, though not unique: a theological reinterpretation turned an existing statue into the image of the god who had been invented on its basis."The coming of Christianity ended the Great Sphinx's religious role. The ever-present sand buried it, thus sparing it the fate that overtook the nearby pyramids, which were stripped of their stone by medieval builders. The monument remained untouched, covered by its desert blanket, until the first excavations. Zivie-Coche details the archaeological activity aimed at clearing the Sphinx and, later, at preserving it from the corrosive effects of a rising water table.
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Download or read book The Riddle of the Sphinx written by Alexandre Montagu and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a daring escape from revolutionary Iran, to the glittering night clubs of Paris; from the Caspian Sea to Wimbledon, from the halls of Princeton University to an exiled princess's palatial New York apartment, the story takes us on a dramatic journey in an epic and psychological novel of self-discovery, sexual obsession, exile and destiny.
Download or read book The Sphinx Without a Secret written by Oscar Wilde and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Sphinx Without a Secret« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1891. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
Download or read book Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx written by Joe Todd-Stanton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will love this exciting excavation of ancient Egyptian myths as they follow along with the clever Marcy on a quest to save her dad from the belly of the sphinx! Many years have passed since the tale of Arthur and the Golden Rope, and Arthur is now a world-famous adventurer. If only his daughter Marcy shared his enthusiasm for exploration... Determined to bring out Marcy's adventurous side, Arthur sets off to Egypt to bring back the legendary Book of Thoth. When Arthur doesn't return, Marcy must follow in his footsteps. Can she overcome her fears and rescue her father from the clutches of the great Sphinx?
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Download or read book The Riddle of Sphinx Island written by R.T. Raichev and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective story writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Hugh Payne are asked to travel to Devon in order to prevent a murder on Sphinx Island, but they are far from enthusiastic as they suspect an elaborate joke. And when they hear that one of the house party guests is Romaine Garrison-Gore, another crime writer, they have no doubt that they will walk into a rather tedious variant of the Murder Weekend. After all, it is their tenth wedding anniversary and Major Payne's aunt, Lady Grylls, has been trying to think of a truly original present for them... But then they receive a rather sinister letter signed 'The Riddler' and become curious... could the devil speak true?
Download or read book The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter written by Padraic Colum and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Padraic Colum's captivating tale 'The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter', readers are transported to a world filled with magic and enchantment. Written in a vivid and evocative style, Colum weaves a compelling narrative that immerses the reader in the adventures of a young boy who becomes an apprentice to a powerful sorcerer. The book is rich in fantastical imagery and fantastical creatures, drawing on Celtic folklore and mythology to create a mystical atmosphere that will enchant readers of all ages. Padraic Colum, a renowned Irish poet and writer, drew on his deep knowledge of Celtic mythology and folklore to create this enchanting tale. His background in Irish literature is evident in the lyrical prose and rich storytelling that make 'The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter' a classic of children's literature. Colum's own fascination with magic and myth shines through in the intricate world-building and spellbinding narrative. I highly recommend 'The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter' to anyone who enjoys fantasy literature and tales of magic and adventure. Padraic Colum's masterful storytelling and deep connection to Irish folklore make this book a must-read for those who appreciate the power of imagination and the enchantment of a well-crafted story.
Download or read book Dictionary of phrase and fable A dictionary of English literature by W D Adams with additions written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature written by Richard Gaskin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes. The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics.
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