Found 13,832 results for "Medieval Ages"
The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Il nome della rosa
by Umberto Eco
ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en ...
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides
by Moses Maimonides
MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;"5 "Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."...
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
Анна Каренина
by Лев Толстой
KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...
Milton's Poems
by John Milton
Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...