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Absolute Fables

Bill Willingham
Absolute Fables Book PDF

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1779500203

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Bill Willingham's award-winning series Fables like it's never been seen before! When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters created their own secret society--within an exclusive luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side--called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Bigby, Fabletown's sheriff and a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to determine if the culprit is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk climber. Collects Fables 1-29, Fables: The Last Castle and the 7-page story collected in Fables: Legends in Exile.

The Absolute

Daniel Guebel
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Author : Daniel Guebel
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644211618

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Winner.... Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021 Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018 Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017 Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016 A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch. The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters’ lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator’s ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang. The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words. “This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. … It’s the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is.” —La Nación

Prophetic Culture

Federico Campagna
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Author : Federico Campagna
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350149649

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Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life. Cosmological stories, however, are fragile things. As soon as they lose their ring of truth and their significance for living, the worlds that they brought into existence disintegrate. New and alien worlds emerge from their ruins. Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity. How are we to face the challenge of leaving a fertile cultural legacy to those who will come after the end of our future? How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?

Stanley in Africa

Allen Howard Godbey
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Author : Allen Howard Godbey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : CUB:P202271413001

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The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce
The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce Book PDF

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814208428

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"Bierce's fables are distinguished for their biting wit and their cynical reflection of the political and social events of his time. Local and national political figures; corrupt lawyers, judges, and clergymen; and even incidents in the Spanish-American War are all mercilessly lampooned. The fables not only testify to Bierce's hatred of "hypocrisy, cant, and all sham" but provide a window into late nineteenth-century American society. S. T.

Lives of the British Admirals

John Campbell,John Berkenhout
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Author : John Campbell,John Berkenhout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Admirals
ISBN : HARVARD:HC2JX6

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The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans in the Years 1814-1815

George Robert Gleig
The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans in the Years 1814 1815 Book PDF

Author : George Robert Gleig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108023764

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The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans in the Years 1814-1815 by George Robert Gleig Pdf

Gleig reveals the drama and misery experienced by those who fought two of the most influential campaigns in military history.

A narrative of the campaigns of the British army, etc. The campaigns of the British army at Washington and New Orleans in the years 1814-1815. By the author of The subaltern i.e. G. R. Gleig . Third edition, corrected and revised

George Robert Gleig
A narrative of the campaigns of the British army etc The campaigns of the British army at Washington and New Orleans in the years 1814 1815 By the author of The subaltern i e G R Gleig Third edition corrected and revised Book PDF

Author : George Robert Gleig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022062051

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A narrative of the campaigns of the British army, etc. The campaigns of the British army at Washington and New Orleans in the years 1814-1815. By the author of The subaltern i.e. G. R. Gleig . Third edition, corrected and revised by George Robert Gleig Pdf

History of the Graeco-Latin Fable

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
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Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004351127

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History of the Graeco-Latin Fable by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados Pdf

This is the second of three volumes covering the long history of the fable from Sumer to the present day. Historical evidence reaching as far back as Antiquity, supports the study of more than 500 works considered to be fables.

Aesop's Fables

Aesop
Aesop s Fables Book PDF

Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1853261289

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A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.