Poets in a Landscape
7 best books like Poets in a Landscape (Gilbert Highet): A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, One Corpse Too Many, Curiosities of Literature, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Killer of Men, Un été avec Montaigne
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians...
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
| Author | Stephen Brusatte |
| ISBN | 0062490451 |
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today,...
| Author | Ellis Peters |
| ISBN | 0446400513 |
In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress...
Curiosities of Literature
A witty and eclectic tour of some of the more arcane byways of literature. Illustrated throughout.
How much heavier was Thackeray’s brain than Walt Whitman’s? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature?
In...
The Adventures of Robin Hood
| Author | Roger Lancelyn Green |
| ISBN | 0140367004 |
Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache. This classic version brings sense and clarity...
| Author | Christian Cameron |
| ISBN | 0752898582 |
Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line - the wall of bronze - for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked...
| Author | Antoine Compagnon |
| ISBN | 2849902446 |
Les gens seraient étendus sur la plage ou bien, sirotant un apéritif, ils s’apprêteraient à déjeuner, et ils entendraient causer de Montaigne sur le poste. Quand Philippe Val m’a demandé de parler des Essais sur France Inter durant l’été, quelques minutes chaque jour de la semaine,...
