Cligès
10 best books like Cligès (Chrétien de Troyes): The Romance of the Rose, The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Art of Courtly Love, Iphigeneia in Tauris, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, Legends of Charlemagne, The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant, The Fall of Camelot, The Earliest English Poems, Faeries (Magical Worlds of Fantasy)
| Author | Guillaume de Lorris |
| ISBN | 0192839489 |
This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris's work, it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every...
The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale
The Penguin Classics list of medieval sagas grows ever more impressive with these two thrilling Norse sagas
One of the best -loved works of Icelandic literature, this stirring tale of war and romance follows three generations of strong women, wise leaders, and hotheaded warriors. The only...
| Author | Andreas Capellanus |
| ISBN | 0231073054 |
After becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the 12th century, the social system of courtly love soon spread. Evidence of the influence of courtly love in the culture & literature of most of western Europe spans centuries. This unabridged edition of codifies life at Queen...
The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors would have defined it as pure tragedy,...
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0395368057 |
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0028614771 |
Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...
| Author | Stanley Rosen |
| ISBN | 0375720111 |
An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise that all human beings are curious about their existence, Rosen's collection brings...
A stand alone book in the brilliant Enchanted World Series, THE FALL OF CAMELOT is written in a somber but engaging, highly readable tone, and beautifully illustrated. A concise, single volume retelling of the King Arthur saga, the book does a good job of remaining focused on the principals conflicts...
| Author | Michael Alexander |
| ISBN | 0140445943 |
Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language.
Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0451450612 |
Features:
ANDRE NORTON
LORD DUNSANY
POUL ANDERSON
JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON
THOMAS BURNETT SWANN
JAMES HOGG
LAFCADIO HEARN
RICHARD McKENNA
MARY E. WILKINS
PHILIP K. DICK
HENRY SLESAR
HERMINIE TEMPLETON
H. C. BAILEY
JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK
JOHN BUCHAN
ROBERT F. YOUNG
ISAAC...
| Author | Lewis Carroll |
| ISBN | 1425047750 |
Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in...
| Author | Stephen Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0300228880 |
A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece
Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures—a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel’s monstrous mother, and...
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0008202133 |
Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination, "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" is an important non Middle-earth work to set alongside his other retellings of existing myth and legend, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur and The Story of Kullervo.
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