Download or read book Orestes written by Voltaire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."

Download or read book Prince of Europe written by Philip Mansel and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.

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Download or read book The Unforgiven written by Gav Thorpe and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping conclusion to the Legacy of Caliban series The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels continues: to atone for the sins of their forefathers and capture all of the renegades and heretics known as the Fallen. With the most famous of these Fallen Dark Angels – the elusive Cypher – now firmly in their grasp after his unexpected surrender, the Dark Angels are given fresh hope that they can redeem themselves in the eyes of the Emperor. But what game is Cypher playing? What plans does he have? And can the Dark Angels ever really atone, or will they always remain the Unforgiven?

Download or read book Kal Jerico written by Gordon Rennie and published by Games Workshop(uk). This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete adventures of Kal Jerico, the most notorious bounty hunter of the underhives of Necromunda, and his sidekick Scabbs, are collected in a graphic novel anthology.

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Download or read book Exterminatus written by Dan Abnett and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the world of Magnum Christi, Inquisitor Delius Alastor searches for those who would betray the Imperium to serve the twisted forces of Chaos. In the grim future of the 41st millennium, the Inquisition work to defend Humanity from the traitors, heretics, mutants and aliens who would undermine the Imperium from within. Still recovering from a deadly confrontation that left the rest of his retinue dead, Inquisitor Delius Alastor is despatched to the city of Carrion Gulf on the world of Magnum Christi. Here, working alongside the superhuman warriors of the Black Templars, he must race against time to foil the insidious plans of the Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marines and their traitor accomplices.

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