Author: John Updike
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: centaur
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1996-08-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0449912167
ISBN-13: 9780449912164

In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his own relationship to Prometheus, The Centaur one of John Updike’s most brilliant and unusual novels.

Author: Henry Hollenbaugh
Publisher: Alondra Press
Keywords: centaur, nessus
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0981452337
ISBN-13: 9780981452333

A novel based on Greek mythology - the life of Nessus the Centaur and his tragic love for Dejanira, the wife of Hercules. The story is told by the author’s character, Jonathan Nestus, a modern-day reincarnation of Nessus, reliving periodic episodes in the life of the centaur in dreams. According to Jonathan Nestus, the centaurs actually existed as half-horse, half-human creatures, along with the satyrs, mermaids, and many other weird creatures of Greek mythology.

Author: Albert Leong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: neizvestny, ernst, art, life, centaur
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2002-09
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 0742520587
ISBN-13: 9780742520585

Preserving art, freedom, and human dignity in the age of the totalitarian state has been one of the great challenges of the twentieth century. In Centaur, Slavic scholar Albert Leong chronicles the life and work of the greatest living Russian sculptor and philosopher of art. Based on extensive research in the formerly closed Soviet archives, exclusive interviews with Neizvestny, his family, and friends, Centaur tells the amazing story of a visionary artist and World War II commando officer who narrowly escaped death on the battlefield, successfully defied Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and the

Author: Nancy Cole Silverman
Publisher: Eloquent Books
Keywords: promise, centaur
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2010-02-21
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1609112458
ISBN-13: 9781609112455

The Centaur’s Promise is a thrilling saga of personal discovery and equestrian bonds that transports us from mythical Greece to contemporary Los Angeles. In 320 B.C., Chiron, the leader of the Centaurs, commands the ancients to stop warring. He banishes all Centaurs from early Greece. But before they depart, he proclaims: "We will leave, but we will take the hearts of your best women with us. Through them, we will rule your world for eternity." Cynthia Szantos is lost in a dead-end job and a failing romance. After she nearly kills a horse that bolts in front of her on a Southern Calif