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Hávamál · 1986 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Hávamál er kvæði úr eddukvæðum. Hávamál merkir mál hins háa, en hinn hái er Óðinn og er kvæðið lífsspeki hans, og inniheldur hvortveggja hvunndagslegar ráðleggingar og háspekilegt efni. Eina forna eintakið af Hávamáli er að finna í Codex Regius, öðru nafni Konungsbók. Kvæðið er talið vera frá seinni hluta 13. aldar en ekki vita menn neitt um geymd þess fyrr en það kom í eigu Brynjólfs biskups… Shares: Glossaries, Concordances, Language, Poetry

Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1554 · ★ 3.3 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Includes an introduction to this Roman poet, selections from his poetry, vocabulary and grammatical notes, and glossaries on meters and figures of speech. Shares: Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Love poetry, Latin language, Poetry

Shakespeare's bawdy Eric Partridge · 1947 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's works. Consisting of an alphabetical glossary with cross-references, this book helps the modern reader to make sense of the bawdy. Shares: Glossaries, Language, History and criticism

Gabriel Conroy Bret Harte · 1875 · 466p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Novel of an honest young miner in the mountains and his family and troubles. Shares: Glossaries, Language

Lays of ancient Rome Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these recount heroic episodes from early Roman history with strong dramatic and tragic themes, giving the collection its name. Macaulay also included two poems inspired by recent history: Ivry (1824) and The Armada (1832). Shares: Rome, Poetry

Carmen 63 Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1861 · ★ 2.5 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries including Cesar, Cicero, and Pompey, Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us… Shares: Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Love poetry, Poetry

Carmina Horace · 1712 · ★ 4.0 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Demanding "The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when - as has usually been the case - a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety. Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into… Shares: Language, Latin language, History and criticism, Poetry

Metamorphoses Ovid · 1479 · ★ 4.1 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Demanding The Metamorphoses is a narrative poem penned by the Roman poet Ovid. Widely considered to be his ultimate work, comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths. The poem portrays a history of the world from creation up to the deification of Julius Caesar. Metamorphoses is viewed as one of the most influential works in Western culture, inspiring authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and… Shares: Latin Love poetry, Latin language, Poetry

Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores Ovid · 1637 · ★ 2.0 · 523p · ≈ 17h · Demanding Index of proper names appended Shares: Latin Love poetry, History and criticism, Romance & Relationships, Poetry

Heroides Ovid · 1502 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The "autres ouvrages" of Bachet are, "Virginis Deiparæ ad Christvm filium. Epistola. Nec non, & alia quædam poëmatia", and "Rime toscane" Shares: Latin Love poetry, History and criticism, Romance & Relationships, Poetry

Tristia Ovid · 1574 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Shakespeare's favourite poet, deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of classic literature. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Ovid, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual… Shares: Latin Elegiac poetry, Poetry

Satyricon Petronius · 1575 · ★ 3.8 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Demanding An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. What remains of the novel is a picaresque story concerning the narrator’s battle to keep his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy, away from his many rivals. Shares: Latin language, Rome

Victorian writing about risk Elaine Freedgood · 2000 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on politic economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and… Shares: English prose literature, History and criticism

Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne .. Antoine Court de Gébelin · 1773 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Demanding Il gioco dei tarocchi, testo coltissimo quanto fantasioso, è contenuto nell’ottavo volume (1781) di Monde primitif analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne, monumentale opera di mitologia comparata scritta da Antoine Court de Gébelin, pastore protestante, massone ed erudito vicino agli illuministi. Senza questo piccolo saggio, quello che nel Settecento era un semplice gioco di carte non si… Shares: Language, Latin language

In memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1850 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Challenging craftsmanship of tennyson in In Memorium Shares: In literature, History and criticism, Poetry

Victorian Diary Anne-Marie Millim · 2013 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication… Shares: English prose literature, History and criticism

Selections from Ovid Ovid · 1875 · 201p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Latin language, In literature, Poetry

Helen of Troy Andrew Lang · 1882 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Helen (; ), commonly known as Helen of Troy and sometimes as Helen of Sparta, is a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus by Leda or Nemesis, and the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor, Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe and Timandra. She was first married to King Menelaus of Sparta "who became by her the father of… Shares: In literature, Poetry

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