These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term `Renaissance,`
`what can be said at all can be said clearly, and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent` Wittgenstein`s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in Engl
The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus` Libr
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parall
Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her
In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy`s home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the
`I cannot be killed indoors,` he said, `nor out of doors, I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.` `Well,` she said, `how can you be killed?` Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intrig
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