Custom and Myth (Esprios Classics)
Custom and Myth (Esprios Classics)

Author: Andrew Lang

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781006840739

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Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. The interest in folklore was from early life; he read John Ferguson McLennan before coming to Oxford, and then was influenced by E. B. Tylor. The earliest of his publications is Custom and Myth (1884). In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms.

Christmas (Esprios Classics)
Christmas (Esprios Classics)

Author: Robert Haven Schauffler

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11-17

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1794750630

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Robert Haven Schauffler was an American writer, cellist, athlete, and war hero. Schauffler published poetry, biographies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann and a series of books celebrating American holidays. where his parents were missionaries. By the time he was two he was back in the United States where his family founded the Schauffler College of Religious and Social Work in Cleveland in 1886 for Bohemian immigrants who were interested in social or religious work.

Woman Under Socialism (Esprios Classics)
Woman Under Socialism (Esprios Classics)

Author: August Bebel

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 0359935427

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Ferdinand August Bebel was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany in 1869, which in 1875 merged with the General German Workers' Association into the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany.

Matthew Arnold (Esprios Classics)
Matthew Arnold (Esprios Classics)

Author: George Saintsbury

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11-25

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1794767525

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"Mr. Matthew Arnold, like other good men of our times, disliked the idea of being made the subject of a regular biography; and the only official and authoritative sources of information as to the details of his life are the Letters published by his family, under the editorship of Mr. G. W.E. Russell (2 vols., London, 1895). To these, therefore, it seems to be a duty to confine oneself, as far as such details are concerned, save as regards a very few additional facts which are public property."

The Destiny of the Soul, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
The Destiny of the Soul, Volume II (Esprios Classics)

Author: William Rounseville Alger

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1794759646

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William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860).

Tales of Troy and Greece (Esprios Classics)
Tales of Troy and Greece (Esprios Classics)

Author: Andrew Lang

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-14

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781006840562

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Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. The interest in folklore was from early life; he read John Ferguson McLennan before coming to Oxford, and then was influenced by E. B. Tylor. The earliest of his publications is Custom and Myth (1884). In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms.

The Illustrated A-Z of Classic Mythology
The Illustrated A-Z of Classic Mythology

Author: Arthur Cotterell

Publisher:

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780754828983

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A comprehensive reference source to the ancient world's most fascinating mythologies, bringing together the Classical legends of ancient Greece and Rome; the fairytale myths of the Celtic world; and from Northern Europe, tales of Germanic gods, Nordic warriors and giants.

The Lady and the Unicorn
The Lady and the Unicorn

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-12-28

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1101213183

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A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.