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Jenny C. Mann
A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence
In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods…
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Chris Flynn
An unputdownable supernatural thriller about a mysterious global event, set in an Australian rural town.
Terence Dawson
This fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth…
Theodor W. Adorno
"The source texts of this translation can be found in volumes 17, 18, 19 and 20 of Theodor W. Adorno's Gesammelte Schriften in 20 Beanden."
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Rick Riordan
FROM THE WORLD OF PERCY JACKSON The fourth novel in Rick Riordan's best-selling Heroes of Olympus series - now as a graphic novel!
FROM THE WORLD OF PERCY JACKSON
The…
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The third exciting entry in Rick Riordan's best-selling Heroes of Olympus series is now a graphic novel!
The third exciting entry in Rick Riordan's best-selling Heroes of Olympus series is…
Orpheus Wren
Abuse is hell.
When you're born into it, it does terrible things to you. Getting out of that cycle is difficult at the best of times.
It took me thirty…
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Orpheus
The Hymns of Orpheus attributed to the legendary figure Orpheus, offer a rare glimpse into prehistoric European mythology.
Carlos Rubio
We first meet Jack Stewart on his way back to his apartment in New York City, where he is pursuing a career as a jazz musician.
As the novel unfolds…
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Eriona Campbell
Meet the String Family! Orpheus, the wise and totally cool musical owl, tells us all about the string instruments: the Violin, the Viola, the Cello and the Bass!
The Piano is one of the greatest instruments in the world. After all, it IS called the Grand Piano! Orpheus, the wise and totally cool owl, introduces us to some…
Zt Tosha
"A Garden for Orpheus" by ZT Tosha
Dive into the depths of human consciousness with 'A Garden for Orpheus, ' a captivating journey that merges art and philosophy to illuminate…
Dr Tomasz Mojsik
The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but 'the son of Oeagrus' and 'Thracian musician' venerated by the Greeks has also become a prominent figure…
Joel Schwindt
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti…
Daniel Stepner
"Orpheus in Jerusalem" by Daniel Stepner is a captivating tale of love, loss, and the power of music.
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Rilke's voice from the last tumultuous young century reaches tenderly into ours. But his lush German is a language of its own. Mark Burrows has a rare gift to coax…
Alexandra Maria Madela
This book discusses the complex relationship between the Argonautika by Orpheus, the Homeric epics, and Apollonius' Argonautica. It demonstrates that Homer's works and the Hellenistic Argonautica are presented simultaneously as…
Olena Boryshpolets
Olena Boryshpolets' poems cover a vast landscape, from the Ukrainian steppe and the Black Sea, now filled with Russian mines, across the Baltic Sea and across the ocean to the…
Virginia Vaughan
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Laraine Kentridge Lasdon
Orpheus on the Beach and an Orange Chair shares with readers a yearlong, simmering premonition of a death. Author Laraine Kentridge Lasdon believes others have sensed these small changes in…
Maurice Baring
Maurice Baring OBE (27 April 1874 - 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel…
B M Jenner
""When you lose someone you love, you lose the part of your soul that goes with them, but you also keep a part of them inside of you. The best…
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This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of…
Vojtech Hladky
A new interpretation of the Derveni papyrus, an important testimony of intellectual life in Greece of late fourth century BCE, which combines subjects from ancient religious thought, allegorical explanation of…
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Katee Robert
NEW EDITION: Get a taste of the super-sexy TikTok sensation with these dazzling new editions - unmissable for long-time Dark Olympus fans and Greek mythology alike.
Books 1-7 are now…
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert brings the heat in this series of sizzling modern Greek myth retellings. Orpheus lost everything when he lost Eurydice's love...but…
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Sav R. Miller
From USA Today bestselling author Sav R. Miller comes the TikTok sensation- a dark and twisted contemporary romance inspired by the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.
He'll go to Hell and…
Simon J Reynolds
Cyclists 'looking at each other' during a race is generally taken by commentators to be a portent of disaster. But why? Bike-racers, after all, are mostly young and easy on…
Orpheus Everts
This collection of poems by Orpheus Everts is both haunting and beautiful. The poems center on themes of love and loss, and the spectral bride of the title poem serves…
Orpheus Rayswarnadhir
Sometimes you hear the lonely voice of ‘your other’ speaks your soul against all ills .They are being written over the years on blood stained leaf in our heart .Those…
A collection of poems of the birth place, the real and the dreams and the surreal. The voices are like the rivers, the sufferings, the broken dreams, the anxiety of…
Orpheus Sofs
This is a fictional drama about a young Benedictine monk and the daughter of a wine farmer in Sicily, Italy, in the seventeenth century. As a child, Giacomo had been…
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The American System of Public Provision for the Insane, and Despotism in Lunatic Asylums is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the…
Rodney Orpheus
Magick is a subtle and curious thing and often works in ways you do not expect and at times you do not expect but it always works. Every magical act…
