The Golden Fleece: More Old Greek Stories (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Baldwin, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331264456 ISBN 13: 9781331264453

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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To the lad Cretheus, the youngest of the sons of olus, all this seemed unbearable. He missed the friends of former days. He missed their loving service. He shrank before the cold' looks and harsh words that greeted him day by day.

At length he said to his brother the king: I have no longer a home. I would rather go out into the great woods and live with the wild things there than dwell in this cheerless place.

The face of Athamas grew black with anger, and he answered: Begone, and be it so! Go, live With the wild things, and let not to-morrow's sun see you Within the city walls.

The young prince had no mind to disobey. At the break Of day he set out, to journey he knew not whither. With a stout stick in his hand and his father's sword by his side, he went forth to seek his fortune among strangers. Yet no fear had he of the end, for in those early days no man nor boy knew What fear was.

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Excerpt from The Golden Fleece: More Old Greek Stories

This is a tale of heroes and their fearless deeds, of grievous wrongs not wholly righted, and of a strange first voyage through perilous seas. Whether it be true or untrue, of that you must judge for yourselves; but it is not very different from certain old, old stories which wise men once believed and which poets and scholars have repeated in many varying forms. When you have read it, you surely will agree that the heroes performed their parts with courage and right good will, as manful men would act when moved by adventurous and worthy aims. They lived when the world was in its childhood and life was a wondrous holiday. Therefore they saw in earth and air many strange and awe-inspiring things invisible to us of this workaday age, and they were stirred by heroic impulses unknown to men whose lives are cast in these later times of science and unpoetic fact.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331264456
• ISBN 13: 9781331264453
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294