Found 1,777 results for "Lyon (france), history"
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
Emma
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.
Legenda aurea
by Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton
The Lord's advent is celebrated for four weeks to signify that his coming is fourfold: he came to us in the flesh, he co...
Le Corbusier
by Le Corbusier
"Mit 17 Jahren hatte ich das Gluck, einen Bauherrn kennen zu lernen, der mir ohne Vorurteile sein Bauvorhaben anvertraut...
Princesse de Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette, Everett Carll Ladd
THE last years of Henri II's reign saw a display of opulence and gallantry such as has never been equalled in France.
