books about: continentals     books:     Continentals      Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus Dover Publications, 2002 This book is fantastic! This little book though short in lenght packs a condensed form of life wisdom. Some of the insight Rilke writes to his friend are priceless. Rilke penetrates to the essence of a wide range issues from religious to material never preaching but more like asking his ...             The Iliad of Homer Homer University Of Chicago Press, 1961 Richmond Lattimore...Genius!!!!! Richmond Lattimore was an absolute genius. I recommend this book to very advanced classics students, but especially to those who have taken many years of Latin and Greek courses. The translation is most certainly not intended for anyone prosaic. It is more literally ...             The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) Dante Alighieri Everyman's Library, 1995 Excellent Translation The introduction by a modern poet rambles on and is not worth reading, however the stories by Dante are excellent and have been translated without losing any of the original meaning. Notes in the back make it easy to follow this 400 year old story.             The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams John Adams The University of North Carolina Press, 1988 Not a book about History, this IS History Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall and to be able to share in the thoughts and happenings of important places and people? Well, if your desires in that regard include the office of the Presidency of the United States and the early days following the American ...             Iliad and Odyssey boxed set Homer Penguin Classics, 1999 An Excellent Read; A little wordy, but a good set of books This book is an excellent translation. Through this set, I have come to trust Robert Fagles and his translations. Although it is written in classical language, and thus may be hard for some readers to understand, I thoroughly enjoyed reading these classic pieces of ...             The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Homer Penguin Classics, 1998 Epic Masterpiece! Though I have read and I teach The Odyssey, it was good to read The Iliad in order to get more background about the Trojan War. This book is definitely not for the faint-of-heart and Homer's war details are very graphic and grotesque. However, the theme of honor is ...             Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) Voltaire Dover Publications, 1991 The best of all possible worlds?? Candidly, point well made... At a time that followed witch hunts and religious persecution, Voltaire wrote Candid as a scream in the face of church's authority and nobility's arrogance. Candid is a simple Pollyannaish young man who mirrored all the views of his tutor Pangloss, who has the ...             The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) Dante Alighieri NAL Trade, 2003 Three and a Half Years Later... ...I finally finished this wonderful book (today)! To tell the truth, it was the kind of book I put away for a few weeks or months and then picked it up again, reading a few cantos at a time. As assumed by most, I believe the Inferno may be the best of the three ...             No Exit and Three Other Plays Jean-Paul Sartre Vintage, 1989 "Hell is other people"....... Estelle, Inez and Garcin expected to face all manner of torture in hell, but never expected hell to be a regular room, where these three extremely different people are bound together for eternity. During the time in which the characters explore the possibility of ...             Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ... Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ... Review of Play: Waiting for Godot - A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Written in: 1949 Premiere in: 1953 By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) Originally written in French and translated to English by the author himself. ...             The Inferno (Signet Classics) Dante Alighieri Signet Classics, 2001 A powerful translation of a masterpiece There have been several excellent translations of Dante in the past few years, all worth reading in their own right. But I retain a special affection for John Ciardi's version, as it's the first one I ever read, at the unprepared & overwhelmed age of 15. I knew of its ...             The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor David S. Landes W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 Outstanding! Landes provides an interesting and credible explanation of the differences in income/capita (now about 400:1, about 5:1 250 years ago) between the richest and poorest nations. En route, Landes also provides a useful perspective on today's globalization debate. Most ...             Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) Voltaire Penguin Classics, 1950 magnum opus Candide by Voltaire This is a great classic. "Candide" treats important philosophical questions in unusual way. The book is brilliant and often laught-out-loud hilarious.             Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe Gerard Prunier Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Conspiracy, Conjecture, and Fantasy Gerard Prunier's latest book, Africa's World War, is a tale of dark conspiracy woven with incompetence. Reading it made me wonder if there was indeed a fictional Congo with an eastern neighbor, Rwanda, out there. Prunier's writings suggest there has to be a parallel ...             The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) Dante Alighieri Penguin Classics, 2002 Medieval vision of the afterlife This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) "Devine Comedy" weaved together aspects of biblical and classical Greek literary traditions to produce one of the most important works of not only medieval literature, ...          products you might be interested in search for books adams-jefferson, catastrophe, continental, correspondence, purgatorio, tragicomedy      toavi.com    web we recommend Epic Masterpiece! randomly chosen book: Kaplan NAPLEX Review: The Complete Guide to Licensing Exam Certification ...