Completed Shelf: Recently Added
red_shark_528
Recent Activity
The Tale of the Heike
Book - 2012
"With a reflection on the fleeting nature of power and glory begins The Tale of the Heike, an epic from twelfth-century Japan. Comparable in stature to The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike narrates with wit, energy, and compassion the stories...
Traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century.
Superior Glokta has a problem. How can he defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when his allies can by no means be trusted? Ancient secrets will be uncovered and bitter enemies will be forgiven--but not before they are...