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“helene guerber”

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  • The Story of The Greeks

    by Helene Adeline Guerber ...
    This elementary history of Greece is intended for supplementary reading or as a first history text-book for young pupils. It is therefore made up principally of stories about persons; for, while history proper is largely beyond the comprehension of children, they are able at an early age to understand and enjoy anecdotes of people, especially of those in the childhood of civilization. At the same ... Read more

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  • Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated With Special Reference to Literature and Art

    by Helene Adeline Guerber ...
    The most ancient relic of literature of the spoken languages of modern Europe is undoubtedly the epic poem "Beowulf," which is supposed to have been composed by the Anglo-Saxons previous to their invasion of England. Although the poem probably belongs to the fifth century, the only existing manuscript is said to date from the ninth or tenth century. This curious work, in rude alliterative verse ... Read more

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  • The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story

    by Helene Adeline Guerber ...
    Every now and then in our reading we come suddenly face to face with first things,—the very elemental sources beyond which no man may go. There is a distinct satisfaction in dealing with such beginnings, and, when they are those of literature, the sense of freshness is nothing short of inspiring. To share the same lofty outlook, to breathe the same high air with those who first sensed a whole era ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

    by Helene Adeline Guerber ...
    Learned men, who read the story of the earth in the mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, and seas which cover its surface, tell us that America, although known as the New World, is really older than Europe. The sun has shone upon this continent and the rain has watered it for more centuries than we can count. If you study your maps carefully, you will notice lofty mountains, great lakes, and long ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Greeks

    by Helene Guerber ...
    The history of Greece goes back to the time when people did not know how to write, and kept no record of what was happening around them. For a long while the stories told by parents to their children were the only information which could be had about the country and its former inhabitants; and these stories, slightly changed by every new teller, grew more and more extraordinary as time passed. At ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Romans

    by Helene A. Guerber ...
    This elementary history of the Roma Empire is intended for supplementary reading or as a first history textbook for young pupils. It is therefore made up principally of stories about persons; for, while history proper is largely beyond the comprehension of children, they are able at an early age to understand and enjoy anecdotes of people, especially of those in the childhood of civilization. At ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Chosen People

    by Helene Guerber ...
    Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.Story of the Chosen People is a short history about the Israelites, written for a high school audience. ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Greeks

    by Helene A. Guerber ...
    This elementary history of Greece is intended for supplementary reading or as a first history textbook for young pupils. It is therefore made up principally of stories about persons; for, while history proper is largely beyond the comprehension of children, they are able at an early age to understand and enjoy anecdotes of people, especially of those in the childhood of civilization. At the same ... Read more

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  • Myths of Northern Lands Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art

    by Hélène Adeline Guerber ...
    The aim of this handbook of Northern mythology is to familiarize the English student of letters with the religion of his heathen ancestors, and to set forth, as clearly as possible, the various myths which have exercised an influence over our customs, arts, and literature. As Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Icelanders, Germans, English, and French all came originally from the same stock and worshiped ... Read more

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  • Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas

    by Helene Adeline Guerber ...
    The prime importance of the rude fragments of poetry preserved in early Icelandic literature will now be disputed by none, but there has been until recent times an extraordinary indifference to the wealth of religious tradition and mythical lore which they contain. The long neglect of these precious records of our heathen ancestors is not the fault of the material in which all that survives of ... Read more

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  • The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads

    Gods, Giants, Heroes, and the Living Legacy of Eddas, Sagas, and Ballads

    by Anonymous, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Snorri Sturluson, Saemund Sigfusson, Sturla Þórðarson, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Nora Kershaw ...
    Translated by William Morris, Benjamin Thorpe, John Sephton, James Johnstone, Samuel Laing, W. C. Green, Muriel A.C. Press, John Coles, G. W. DaSent, Eirikr Magnusson, George Webbe, W.G. Collingwood, J. Stefansson, F. York Powell, Edmund Head, Arthur Middleton Reeves, I.A. Blackwell ...
    The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads gathers foundational accounts of the Norse imaginative world, moving between mythic poem, heroic lay, genealogical narrative, and saga history. Its range illuminates gods, giants, fate, kinship, warfare, and the approaching catastrophe of Ragnarök, while preserving the tonal variety of Old Norse literature: compressed wisdom, dark humor ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of the Vikings

    Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas, and Heroic Legends of Gods, Sea-Kings, Fate, and Fame

    by Saemund Sigfusson, Snorri Sturluson, Sturla Þórðarson, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Nora Kershaw, Anonymous ...
    Translated by Benjamin Thorpe, I.A. Blackwell, W. C. Green, Muriel A.C. Press, John Coles, G. W. DaSent, William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson, John Sephton, George Webbe, W.G. Collingwood, J. Stefansson, F. York Powell, Edmund Head, Arthur Middleton Reeves, Samuel Laing, James Johnstone ...
    The Spirit of the Vikings gathers saga narrative, mythic tradition, historical chronicle, and later interpretive prose into a capacious portrait of Norse life and imagination. Its materials range from the stark, economical drama of medieval Icelandic writing to explanatory retellings shaped for modern readers, illuminating warfare, kinship, law, exploration, kingship, and the unstable traffic ... Read more

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