Adventures of a Greek Lady, the adopted daughter of the late Queen Caroline
Author: Celina Stephano
Publisher:
Published: 1849
Total Pages: 318
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Adventures of a Greek Lady, the Adopted Daughter of the Late Queen Caroline. Written by Herself
Author: Celina STEPHANO
Publisher:
Published: 1849
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Author: Mary Norris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1324001283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.” —Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men.
Artemis
Author: Teri Temple
Publisher:
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781503832541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the mythological origin of the Greek goddess Artemis, her abilities as goddess of the hunt, and some of the punishments she meted to those who offended her.
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Author: Mary Norris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0393246604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal "Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.
Desponia
Author: L. M. Goodman
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-26
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ISBN-13: 9781952053054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAthena
Author: Teri Temple
Publisher: Child's World
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781503832558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces the Greek goddess Athena and explains her importance; features well-known Greek myths about this goddess; and includes a map of ancient Greece and a family tree of the principal Greek gods. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative sidebars, a list of Greek characters introduced in the text, a list of equivalent Roman gods and goddesses, sources for further research including websites, an index, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes
Author: Cory O'Brien
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 039916040X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the creator of Myths Retold comes a hilarious collection of Greek, Norse, Chinese and even Sumerian myths retold in their purest, bawdiest forms! All our lives, we’ve been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths. In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified…wait, it all makes sense now. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O’Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. Did you know? Cronus liked to eat babies. Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate. Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. Isis had bad taste in jewelry. Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy. And Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face. Still skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: • Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed. • The entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone. • The Hindu universe is run by a married couple who only stop murdering in order to throw sweet dance parties…on the corpses of their enemies. • The Norse goddess Freyja once consented to a four-dwarf gangbang in exchange for one shiny necklace. And there’s more dysfunctional goodness where that came from.
Athena: The Story of a Goddess
Author: Imogen Greenberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1526609304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the adventures of Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, war and courage. From her extraordinary birth – sprung from the head of her father, in the midst of a thunderous headache – to her refusal to take no for an answer. Find out how she inspired powerful gods, goddesses and humans and the terrifying fate of those who dared to cross her path. Follow Athena as she competes against her bad-tempered uncle; watch as she turns her enemy into a spider and join her as she keeps Odysseus safe on his remarkable journey home. Prepare to be amazed as you uncover the story of one of the most fearless ancient goddesses, and the tales of a world where humans, gods and goddesses could meet. Illustrated and written by the brilliantly talented sister duo, Isabel and Imogen Greenberg, this is a story of daring for goddesses-in-the-making.
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 13
ISBN-13: 8726586517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMycroft, Sherlok Holmes’ brother, has a story to tell. Mycroft’s friend Mr. Melas is an interpreter who got himself in great trouble. He was hired as a translator in a business meeting. Melas however did not know that the "meeting" was between Mr. Latimer and the person he had kidnapped. Mr. Latimer wanted to force a Greek to sign some property papers. The plan however did not go as expected because Mr. Melas found out what was going on. Did he manage to save the victims or he became one as well? Will the two brothers Holmes solve the case in time? Find out the answers in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" which is a part of "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.
