Books with author H.M. Clarke

A children's mystery story, set in an English village, and seen through the eyes of eleven-year-old Kathryn."I loved spending the Summer holidays on my grandparents' farm, but this time was different. There were so many weird things going on it was unbelievable. Buildings were catching fire, bikes and lawn mowers and fruit were disappearing, prowlers were wandering around at nights, and we seemed to get tangled up with strange people everywhere we turned. And all this in a dozy little village where nothing ever happened. My cousins - Kelly and Michael - were thrilled to have so many mysteries to solve and were determined to investigate, even though Gran had threatened to send us home if there was any trouble. I wasn't so sure, but decided to go along with them - and it got really scary."

"In this book we are to tell the story of Troy, and particularly of the famous siege which ended in the total destruction of that renowned city. It is a story of brave warriors and heroes of 3000 years ago, about whose exploits the greatest poets and historians of ancient times have written. Some of the wonderful events of the memorable siege are related in a celebrated poem called the Iliad, written in the Greek language. The author of this poem was Homer, who was the author of another great poem, the Odyssey, which tells of the voyages and adventures of the Greek hero, Ulysses, after the taking of Troy." Michael Clarke -- 1897Included in this edition is a tabulation of Homer’s famous “Catalogue of Ships” which lists the commanders, tribes, nations, cities, and towns which participated in the Greek and Trojan alliances, along the with the numbers of ships contributed by each member of the Greek alliance.

Originally published in 1911, this book attempts to discover the amount of historical truth underlying the allusions to persons and events in Old English heroic poetry. Clarke investigates what certain allusions in poems such as Beowulf and Widsith can tell us of the Teutonic migrations to Britain between the fourth and sixth centuries. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Old English and Anglo-Saxon literature.