The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed, and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a sombre farce.

    Growing up in 20s Austria, the tomboy daughter of a forester struggles to comprehend the overwhelming adult world while the impending advent of Nazism threatens to eclipse the traditional life in her family's mountain village.

    On the far frontier of New France the lovely Angelique enters a rough, masculine world of warring settlers, fierce Iroquois, and lonely soldiers whose hungry eyes watch her every movement...She risks her life to save Outakke, the savage Mohawk chieftain, from treachery and death...and the people of the Five Nations bow down before her...Never has the emerald-eyed beauty attracted so much attention, seen such handsome men, or faced so many perils...

    Graham Webster describes the Roman army's composition, frontier systems, camps and forts, activities in the field (including battle tactics, signaling, and medical services), and peacetime duties, as well as the army's overall influence in the Empire. First published in 1969, the work is corrected and expanded in this third edition, which includes new information from excavations and the findings of contemporary scholars. Hugh Elton provides an introduction surveying scholarship on the Roman army since the last edition of 1985.

    It attempts, through discussion of a wide variety of topics, to convey a balanced impression of the nature of the poem as a whole. An appendix includes a version of and ancient Life of Virgil andinformation about the ancient commentary on him.