18 libros parecidos a Eneida
Aeneid
i don't think anybody else has ever read this book without first being forced to learn latin. yet it is worth reading in translation .the setting, sicily, libya, italy some twenty-five hundred years ago comes alive as communities of farmers and small towns united by person-sized culture. the land, the government, the value of father-son, husband-wife bonds, sports, hand-to hand combat, all…
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Marmion
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Aeneis
"Virgil's masterpiece of Latin poetry, a lively, dramatic poem of daring and adventure, of love and loss, of devotion and death. "
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Apparition Poems
*Apparition Poems*, by American artist Adam Fieled, is an **epic in fragments**, and includes poems which run the formal and thematic gamut- sonnets, monologues, lyrics, meta-poems, and poems of philosophical inquiry. It was released as a Blazevox print book in 2010.
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Opera
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The Odyssey of Homer
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Arcadia
Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all…
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The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
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Dead Men's Money
A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself…
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The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
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The Complete Poetical Works
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the…
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Les contemplations
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Pharsalia
"In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in speech and action. It expresses the moral and political dilemma of civil war and portrays Pompey's loss of authority during his withdrawal from…
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Beowulf, with the Finnsburg fragment
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In Kedar's tents
If it be a duty to respect other men's claims, so also is it a duty to maintain our own.'
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Heroes of Greece and Troy
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Poems
From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy…
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