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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
Jessie L. Weston (1850-1928) wrote fourteen books, most of them on Arthurian legend.
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance...
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English
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"[This book] will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out-- from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have relished Polya's deft-- indeed, brilliant-- instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the...
Series
Doubleday anchor books volume A155
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[1958-1961]
Language
English
Description
Six French plays: Corneille--The Cid; Moliere--The Misanthrope; Racine--Phaedra; Lesage--Turcaret; Marivaux--The False Confessions; Beaumarchais--Figaro's Marriage.
5) The Odyssey
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"A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it hasserved to introduce readers to the ancient Greek world of gods and heroes and has been one of the most popular and respected versions of the work. Yet through all those decades, Chicago never published...
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