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Robert Knox
Karpa Talesman is an adult crossworlds fantasy, that blends dystopian, quest and high fantasy to tell a story of our dying Earth and a brave man dream-traveling other worlds, risking…
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In recent years, growing attention has been paid to the relationship between international law and aesthetics. This collection situates this relationship within its wider political context, demonstrating that the question…
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Homer
Features Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles’ close friend Patroclus…
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Virgil
Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the…
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A translation that presents Homer’s poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War.
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Sophocles
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One of the epics in Western literature, The Iliad recounts the story of the Trojan wars. In his introduction, the author observes that although the violence of the Iliad is…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Reproduction of the original: An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East-Indies by Robert Knox
Subtitle: And of the Captain’s Miraculous Escape and Return to England in September 1680, After Detenation on the Island of Nineteen Years and a Half General Books publication date: 2009…
And Of The Captain[–[s Miraculous Escape.
Published in 1855, this volume provides a detailed survey of the geology, topography, and history of eastern Yorkshire, including the towns of Scarborough, Pickering, and Whitby. The author is highly…
Robert Knox’s well-tended garden of verses discovers a universe in a perennial flower garden. A reporter and a novelist, his poems are as immediate as today and as universal as…
A Manual of Artistic Anatomy: For the Use of Sculptors, Painters, and Amateurs (1852) is a comprehensive guide to the study of human anatomy as it pertains to the visual…
From Leonardo da Vinci to Michelangelo, this book examines the lives and work of some of the greatest artists and anatomists in history. With clear and engaging prose, Robert Knox…
This 1852 work by anatomist Robert Knox (1791-1862) discusses the lives of French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, exploring how anatomy influenced emerging evolutionary theories. It also addresses…
The Races of Men - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Influence of Race over the Destinies of Nations is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Charts the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. This title presents a moving depiction of the transformative power of first love.
The Races of Men: A Fragment (1850) is a book written by Scottish anatomist and physician Robert Knox. It is a scientific study of human races, exploring the physical and…
COCKTAILS IN THE WILD explores form wildly from couplets to long winding lines that swallow the reader up and transport them to a new place.
Henry Lonsdale
W M Harvard
An English Gentleman, who was Treacherously Detained Nearly Twenty Years in the Kingdom of Kandy, in the Interior of the Island of Ceylon, by Rajah Singha, Then Native Sovereign of…
Drawing on his correspondence and information from colleagues, this 1870 biography traces the life and work of the Edinburgh anatomist Robert Knox (1791-1862). Although he was renowned for his outstanding…
