Richard Aldington Bücher
Edward Godfree Aldington war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Dichter, dessen Werk für seine Lyrik und seinen scharfen Blick auf die Welt geschätzt wird. Seine Schöpfungen erforschen oft komplexe menschliche Beziehungen und die Vergänglichkeit des Augenblicks. Aldingtons Stil zeichnet sich durch Eleganz und Tiefe aus, die den Leser in seine Geschichten und Gedanken hineinzieht. Seine poetischen und prosaischen Werke stellen einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur englischen Literatur dar.
Rome
With an Introduction by Richard Aldington
Switzerland . La Suisse . Die Schweiz
A Book Of Photographs
Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence
New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
- 500 Seiten
- 18 Lesestunden
A marvel of scholarly & pictorial art--Detroit NewsThis wonderful book is a revelation--Dame Edith Sitwell Here, in all their wonder & splendor, are the mythologies of humankind--from pre-biblical Egypt & pre-Homeric Greece to the furthest reaches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific & the Americas--all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope & beauty, & illustrated with an incomparable assemblage of authentic paintings, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual & sacrificial objects, many rarely seen by modern Western eyes. This monumental work is the 1st complete encyclopedia of world mythology. Originally published in France by the famous house of Larousse, it contains of course all the well-loved myths of Classical Antiquity. But more than half the book is devoted to the strange & unfamiliar mythologies of civilizations other than our own--from Peru to Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.
