Ekkehard is a richly textured historical novel set in tenth-century Swabia, moving between the monastic learning of St. Gall and the worldly court of Duchess Hadwig at Hohentwiel. Scheffel blends romance, antiquarian detail, comedy, and heroic episode, including the threat of Magyar incursions, to evoke the tensions between cloister and court, scholarship and desire, Latin culture and Germanic vitality. Its style belongs to nineteenth-century German historicism: erudite, picturesque, affec...

Joseph Victor von Scheffel's 'Ekkehard' is a captivating historical novel set in the 10th century in the Swabian Alps. Through his rich and vivid descriptions, Scheffel transports readers to a time of knights, chivalry, and courtly love. The novel is written in a lyrical style, reminiscent of medieval epics, with a strong emphasis on character development and intricate historical detail, making it a must-read for lovers of historical fiction. 'Ekkehard' beautifully captures the essence of ...

Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle EnglishA Penguin ClassicIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a ser...

A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classicRenowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original.A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in...

Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. As a knight serving the German nobility in the imperial Hohenstauffen period, the author was uniquely placed to descri...

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein.Bonus :- Biography- TOCHappy reading !!

Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson.

Imaginary voyage is a kind of narrative in which utopian or satirical representation (or some popular science content) is put into a fictional frame of travel account. This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains the following imaginary voyage stories: - Utopia by Thomas More - Gargantua by François Rabelais - Pantagruel by François Rabelais - The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, it recounts the adventures of Encolpius and his companions as they travel around Italy, encountering courtesans, priestesses, con men, brothel-keepers, pompous professors and, above all, Trimalchio, the nouveau riche millionaire whose debauched feasting and pretentious vulgarity make him one of the great comic characters in literature.

Hypatia was a Greek Alexandrian Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy. Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures in Alexandria: the governor Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria. Kathleen Wider proposes that the murder of Hypatia marked the end of Classical antiquity, and Stephen Gr...

The various Collections of Household and Legendary Tales of different countries which have appeared of late years sufficiently attest the popular interest which attaches to these curious and venerable relics of bygone days. Even such eminent scholars as the Messrs. Grimm have not thought it beneath them to devote their time and research to the task of collecting the old fireside Stories and Legends of Germany; and the result of their labours is a volume of tales of remarkable interest and ...

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