Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years of history, from the founding of Rome to the Gallic invasion in 386 - an era that witnessed the reign of seven kings, the establishment of the Republic, civil strife and brutal conflict. Bringing compelling …
Gilgamesh is the great epic of Mesopotamia, one of the oldest woks in Western literature, contemporary with the oldest parts of the Bible. It is the story of a legendary king who achieves heroic victories with the help of the wild man Enkidu; but when his friend dies, Gilgamesh goes in search of the way to escape death, a secret he can learn only from the one man who survived the Great Flood.
Hellem Keller merupakan sosok yang menjadi bukti bahwa keterbatasan yang dimiliki seseorang tidak dapat menjadi penghalang untuk memperoleh kesuksesan. Meski tidak dapat melihat dan mendengar, yang juge membuatnya tidak dapat berbicara, Helen dapat keluar dari kegelapan setelah hadirnya Anne Sullivan, seorang guru yang dengan setia hingga akhir hayatnya menemani Helen. Dengan dukungan orang-ora…
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralist of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume …
Table of Contents: The horse of wood; the sack of troy; aeneas and anchises; of the voyage of aenes; the voyage of aeneas; shipwreck; carthage; dido; the funereal games of anchises; the burning of the ships-the coming to italy; in italy; the plots of juno; the gathering of the chiefs; king evander; the arms of aeneas; nisus and euryalus; nisus and euryalus; the battle at the camp; the battle on…
Johnny Tremain is fourteen and apprenticed to a silversmith. He is gifted and clever and lords his talent over the other apprentices-until tragedy strikes. A crucible of molten silver breaks and the silver spills over Johnny's right hand. The hand is so badly burned, it's useless-and now, so is Johnny.