Beowulf
A translation of the first epic poem in the English language …
A translation of the first epic poem in the English language …
Kim (1901) is Rudyard Kipling’s story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. …
After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him …
Old and ill, General Simon Bolivar reexamines his life–reliving his campaigns, recalling his romances, and revealing himself as a lover, libertine, and fighter–during a seven-month voyage down the Magdalena River …