War and Peace - is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in its entirety in 1869. Epic in scale, it is regarded as one of the central works of world literature. War and Peace and Tolstoy's other major prose work, Anna Karenina (1873-77), are considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievements.
The Aeneid is an epic poem written in 12 books and is modeled in part on the great Greek epic poems, on Homer's Iliadand Odyssey, and on Apollonius' Argonautica. The Iliad describes the exploits of Achilles and other Greek heroes in the Trojan War (the same war which forced Aeneas to leave Troy and is described in Boo...
is an epic allegory of the spiritual journey of man. Virgil, Dante the pilgrim's guide, leads him through the 7 layers of hell. Throughout his journey through the torturous layers, Dante discovers the perfection of God's divine justice and themes of contrapasso are largely explored. Classical symbolism and classical f...
Raised on her grandmother's mythic tales, brave teenager Arki is stunned when those very monsters come to life and kidnap her best friend Yumi. To rescue Yumi, Arki and her friends venture into the mystical world of Ibayo. Alongside her is Rahinel, a classmate who is secretly an immortal prince on a quest to find the...