The Exeter Book Riddles

The Exeter Book Riddles similar books

• 

  The Wife's Lament

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Dream of the Rood

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Beowulf

  Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel an…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Pleasure of the Text

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Revelations of Divine Love

  One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a cl…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Canterbury Tales

  The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Wulf and Eadwacer

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Exeter Trilogy: Three Old English Elegies: The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Ruin

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  King Lear

  Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suf…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Le Lai de Lanval

  Composé par Marie de France à la fin du xiie siècle, ce lai est un pur conte de fées. Son héros vit au temps mythique des chevaliers de la Table Ronde, à la cour du roi Arthur. Mais le roi l’a oublié …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Nervous Conditions

  A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women's ri…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

  Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood's literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest. She wrote…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Gulliver’s Travels

  A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
  
  Gulliver's…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Agnes Grey

  An alternate cover edition can be found here.
  
  Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Importance of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The r…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Regarding the Pain of Others

  Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Rover

  "The Rover" or "The Banish'd Cavaliers" is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn. It is a revision of Thomas Killigrew's play "Thomaso", or "The Wanderer" (1664), and fe…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Waiting for Godot

  The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men simply waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. Th…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Book of Margery Kempe

  9 hrs. 20 min.
  
  The Book of Margery Kempe is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother and mystic from Norfolk. Having married in c. 1393, given birth to 14 children, and pursued unsuccessful…

  Buy this book on Amazon