An American Iliad

Author : Charles Pierce Roland
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813123003

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An American Iliad by Charles Pierce Roland Pdf

" An updated edition of this concise yet comprehensive history of the Civil War, written by a distinguished historian of the conflict. Charles Roland skillfully interweaves the story of battles and campaigns with accounts of the major political, diplomatic, social, and cultural events of the epoch and insightful sketches of the leading actors. Of prime interest are the contrasts he draws between the opposing presidents and generals. What traits, he asks, made Lincoln superior to Davis as a war leader? How were Union military leaders able to forge a more effective fighting force, a more comprehensive strategy than their opponents? Roland's thoughtful anwers and his recognition of the contadictions of human nature and the interpaly of intention and chance raise this book above a mere recounting of military events. The story of the Civil War is the epic of the American people. Never has it been told more movingly.

Author : Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015033603229

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The American Iliad by Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman Pdf

Author : Ludwell H. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062213103

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North Against South by Ludwell H. Johnson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1148192329

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The Civil War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788150049

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The Civil War by Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Newman Pdf

More than any other conflict the Civil War tore at the fabric of American life. Out of this shattering ordeal came many strange & interesting stories. This book gives us these stories in the participants' own words. The volume speaks with an immediacy that ordinary historical accounts can't rival. Here is a panorama of characters: Generals, aide-de-camps, & foot soldiers; reporters, politicians & housewives rub shoulders in the pages of this book. Each sees the war in a strongly personal way. Here we meet partisans of each side, the Blue & the Grey, & see the conflict through the eyes of those who lived & breathed it.

Author : Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:850972041

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The American Iliad by Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman Pdf

Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691218656

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The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden Pdf

"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical commentary by Alan Jacobs: a preface to provide historical and publishing context; a longer introduction to orient the reader to the poems themselves; and detailed notes on words or passages in need of clarification for contemporary readers. Jacobs, who has edited two previous critical editions of Auden's poetry, argues that this was the most important single collection of poems Auden published, and also the most coherent of his collections. The two poetic sequences, "Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae," bookend a remarkable set of lyrics, with "The Shield of Achilles" itself at the heart. One of Auden's last long poems, it refers to moment in The Iliad in which Thetis, mother of Achilles, asks Hephaestus to forge a shield for her son. Auden re-imagines how the shield of Achilles would look in the modern age, when the rules of war and the role of the hero have been rewritten. While the volume was widely praised, it is now out of print (although the title poem is included in larger collections of Auden's poetry). A critical edition allows readers to better understand and appreciate one of Auden's most important later poetic works, written in what Jacobs describes as "a poetic idiom that differs quite significantly from what anyone else at the time was doing. . . . it is, in a vital sense, public poetry and it can be enjoyed, understood, and profited from. This edition is meant to make that enjoyment, understanding, and profit easier of access.""--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651739662

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The Civil War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gareth Hinds
Publisher : Gareth Hinds
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781893131620

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The Iliad by Gareth Hinds Pdf

More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer’s legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. This stunning graphic novel captures all the grim glory of Homer’s epic. Dynamic illustrations take readers directly to the plains of Troy, into the battle itself, and lay bare the complex emotions of the men, women, and gods whose struggles fueled the war and determined its outcome.

Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571258338

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The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander Pdf

The Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. For a hundred generations, poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events described in this martial epic, even when direct knowledge of it was lost. Various empires have admired it as a book that in telling the story of the siege of Troy also extols the warrior ethic, and teaches the young how to die well. Yet the figure at the heart of the epic, the consummate warrior Achilles, is a brooding, controversial hero. He is a fierce critic of those who have started this war and allowed it to drag on, consuming soldiers and civilians alike. Disconcertingly, The Iliad portrays war as a catastrophe that destroys cities, orphans children and wrecks whole societies. Caroline Alexander's extraordinary book is not about any of the traditional concerns that have occupied classicists for centuries. It is simpler and more radical than that. In her words, 'This book is about what the Iliad is about; this book is about what the Iliad says of war.'

Author : Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1001486190

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The Civil War by Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman Pdf

Provides insight into the Civil War, in the participants' own words. From generals to foot soldiers, reporters to housemaids, each saw the war in a strongly personal way. See the conflict through the eyes of those who lived and breathed it.

Author : Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : United States
ISBN : 0890098751

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The Civil War by Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Geoffrey Newman Pdf

Author : Homer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781451627626

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The Iliad by Homer Pdf

TOLSTOY CALLED THE ILIAD A miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven’t been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original. In Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad, the epic story resounds again across 2,700 years, as if the lifeblood of its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Priam flows in every word. And we are there with them, amid the horror and ecstasy of war, carried along by a poetry that lifts even the most devastating human events into the realm of the beautiful. Mitchell’s Iliad is the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after the Iliad was first written down, to the detriment of the music and the story. Omitting these hundreds of interpolated lines restores a dramatically sharper, leaner text. In addition, Mitchell’s illuminating introduction opens the epic still further to our understanding and appreciation. Now, thanks to Stephen Mitchell’s scholarship and the power of his language, the Iliad’s ancient story comes to moving, vivid new life.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520966871

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The Odyssey by Homer Pdf

The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green’s version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer’s epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.

Author : Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258922371

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The American Iliad by Otto Eisenschiml,Ralph Newman Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.