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Author : Thomas Bloor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 057123111X
Sam wants to be an ordinary fourteen-year-old boy, but he's not. He is the victim of a terrible curse that has turned him into something to be hated.
Author : Peggy McCracken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226459080
In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion at play in both human-animal and human-human interactions. Peggy McCracken discusses a range of literary texts and images from medieval France, including romances in which animal skins appear in symbolic displays of power, fictional explorations of the wolf’s desire for human domestication, and tales of women and snakes converging in a representation of territorial claims and noble status. These works reveal that the qualities traditionally used to define sovereignty—lineage and gender among them—are in fact mobile and contingent. In medieval literary texts, as McCracken demonstrates, human dominion over animals is a disputed model for sovereign relations among people: it justifies exploitation even as it mandates protection and care, and it depends on reiterations of human-animal difference that paradoxically expose the tenuous nature of human exceptionalism.
Author : Charles R. Forker
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0809312794
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. These lines from T. S. Eliot’s "Whispers of Immortality” provide Charles R. Forker with the title for the most substantial and detailed examination of John Webster to date; they also identify a major theme--the love-death nexus in Renaissance drama and its special relevance to Webster. Forker summarizes what is known about Webster’s life and analyzes in detail not only the major plays but also the lesser ones. He examines The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Devil’s Law-Case in context with the minor and collaborative works, tracing themes, stylistic features, and ideas through the entire Webster canon. One reviewer of the manuscript notes that "Forker is surely unrivalled as an authority on matters Websterian. His book treats Webster with an unhurried fullness and richness rarely accorded even to Shakespeare.” Another calls the book "Splendid. Readable and engaging.”
Author : Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : JournalStone
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945373145
Sam Hunter is a PI in the big bad city. When he takes a new case it’s like he’s accepting the client into his ‘pack’. And Sam will do anything to protect the members of his pack. Dogs are like that. So are wolves. And so, too, are werewolves. Like Sam. Sam is a benandanti, an ancient race of werewolves who fight evil. And evil comes in all shapes and sizes; it comes at people from all directions. The cases Sam takes range from saving the world from genetically-engineered super soldiers to saving a young boy from the very real monster in his closet. The Sam Hunter Case Files gather together the weird, strange, funny, heartbreaking and disturbing adventures of a low-rent private investigator taking on very odd jobs. These stories include cameos by fan-favorite characters from Maberry’s bestselling Joe Ledger thrillers and The Pine Deep Trilogy
Author : Malcolm Pasley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135175306
The central theme of this collection of essays, first published in 1978, is the basic tension in Nietzsche, and so in his work, between the urge to weave a satisfying web out of reality and the equally strong compulsion to expose its painful truths. The book aims to stress, not to play down, the embarassing and fruitful fact that he cannot be neatly pigeonholed either as a literary figure or as a professional philosopher. The book meets a long-felt need for a study in English of both the literary and the philosophical aspects of Nietzsche's work, based on his authentic texts, and will be welcomed by all students of modern European thought and Literature.
Author : Alexia Purdy
Publisher : Lyrical Lit. Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Fluxion is book 4 in The Vampires of Vegas series. The past always returns to haunt you. April is on cusp of distributing a successful treatment for the vampiric virus which decimated the world's population. When she's betrayed by those she trusts the most, she's forced to flee her home in Las Vegas. Now, she must depend on a stranger she just met who shares the same rare mutation as her. She can't trust anyone. The vampire hive was her sanctuary, but now, their leader hides an unspeakable horror with far more sinister consequences than anyone could've imagined, especially when it involves April's unusual abilities. Time is running out as she hurries to avoid the clutches of a new clever foe, save her friends, and rid the world of the deadly scourge forever. But the price of success is far too steep. Will the consequences of saving everyone else finally be enough to break her, or will she embrace the full power of the monster lingering beneath her skin? Includes the short novella Brevity (A Vampires of Vegas Story)
Author : Edited by Christine Hamm
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Women novelists, American
ISBN : 9781387381081
"A collection of artists, poets, writers, and essayists who respond to Plath's life with images, poems, essays, short stories, and academic texts. This anthology is golden, elaborate and broad: award-winning men and women from all backgrounds, ethnicities, and sexual orientations; able-bodied, disabled, monolingual, trilingual; writers and artists from around the globe."--Back cover
Author : Kaitlyn Davis
Publisher : Kaitlyn Davis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
**A USA Today Recommended Series!** This faerie godmother has an agenda of her own… Don't miss CHASING MIDNIGHT, a fantasy romance from bestselling author Kaitlyn Davis that reimagines the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. “I could redeem myself if I wanted to. I could help them. But I won’t. I’m the villain of their story, because it’s the only way to be the hero of mine.” Hundreds of years ago, humans learned the secret to sealing magic beneath their skin and stole it from the world. Faeries reverted back to flowers. Shifters remained trapped in their animal forms. Mermaids turned to foam. And the magical creatures who survived vowed revenge. Nymia is one of those survivors, a faerie brought back to life by the return of her magic. When she finds a human girl named Ella with her sister’s power trapped beneath her skin, she’ll do anything to get her back, including kill. There’s only one problem. This isn’t the world she remembers. Humans here have a power all their own—technology. And when a human prince sees her using magic, he’ll use every invention at his disposal to track her down. The countdown is on, and time is running out. Nymia needs to find Ella, take back her sister’s magic, and escape the determined prince before the clock strikes twelve, or she might not make it out of his city alive… *This is the third book in Once Upon a Curse, a series of interconnected stand-alone novels all set in the same fantasy universe. Keywords: Teen & Young Adult, Fairytale, Fairy Tale, Retelling, Adaptation, Fairy Tale Retelling, Cinderella, Romance, Dystopian, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Love, Action & Adventure, Magic, Fantasy, Faerie, Fae, Fairies
Author : David Hewson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838850678
'Hewson's inventiveness never flags' - The Sunday Times 'A great series' - Simon Kernick A young woman is found dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber. Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes she has the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. This ritual killing is very recent history, the horror is still very much alive and Nic Costa needs to get to the bottom of it. The investigation draws Nic's team deep into Rome's most disturbing and sinister secrets and it's clear that their enquiries are not welcome. Now a killer is after Teresa Lupo and the case is accelerating as another young woman suddenly goes missing . . .
Author : Francis Clater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Cattle
ISBN : OXFORD:600010465
Author : Miranda Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199686988
'Transforming Tales' examines the idea of bodily transformation in French literature composed between the 12th and the 15th centuries, exploring the ways in which stories of transformation enable an insight into medieval ideas about humanity and arguing that metamorphosis can be read as a metaphor for rewriting in the Middle Ages.
Author : Erica Jong
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480438859
An actress travels back in time to Venice and has a passionate affair with William Shakespeare, in this novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. A glamorous Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy soon after losing custody of her young daughter, she hopes to forget her woes by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations for her starring role in a new cinematic take on The Merchant of Venice. For the aging but still beautiful actress, this ancient, crumbling city of canals is the perfect escape, enchanting her with its history, its magic, and its mystery. Then one day, while strolling through the old Jewish quarter, she finds herself in a very different Venice—one that hasn’t existed for five hundred years—as the heroine of a new theatrical endeavor by an enigmatic young playwright named Will Shakespeare. Suddenly, impossibly, Jessica has found a new beginning, a new audience—and, in the arms of a genius fledgling bard, a love affair more stimulating, satisfying, and liberating than any she will ever know, even five centuries on. Originally published as Serenissima, this “hypnotic” novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Flying is a magical tale set in a magical city, and a delightfully uninhibited love story that transcends time (The Washington Post Book World). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Frank P. Ryan
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780877457
Four young men and women fell into the magical land of Tír through a mysterious portal in Ireland - and now the fate of two worlds lies on their shoulders in this 'enthralling' (LA Times) and 'fast-paced, action-packed and truly fantastical journey' (Fantasy Book Review) The Tyrant has control of the artefact known as the Fáil, and as he strengthena his hold on the forces of dark magic, he now threatens Earth as well as Tír. In a violently dystopian London, Mark has joined forced with Nantosueta to search for the Sword of Feimhin, while on Tír, Alan has mustered a Shee army and is intent taking the fight to the Tyrant - but obstacles obstruct his path at every turn. And Kate, now in the in-between world of Dromenon, finds herself entering the Land of the Dead . . . Day by day and hour by hour, the looming threat grows. 'Ryan's grand epic style . . . Passionate and dedicated fantasy fans will find a rich, immersive world and carefully handled characters' Booklist
Author : Jennifer Lynn Brown
Publisher : Bunny Moon
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9798391719892
Alice has always thought she was crazy. She was told she was crazy by everyone she ever met. Everyone made fun of her and she felt like an outcast her whole life. Only one person ever believed she could see the things she said she can see. An old family friend and neighbor. However, this old friend is not what he seems and the old stories he shares with Alice are more then just fables and old myths. Gods are real and so are demons. Alice might share a name with a heroine from a classic story, but the rabbit she is chasing is much older and was in myth long before humans could no longer see through the veil. With the help of a wily fox and a legendary hero she must try to save the world from a darkness created to destroy it. A Journey to the west inspired tale of a girl named Alice and her journey to find a missing rabbit.
Author : Jr. Thomas Dixon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387317732
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