Four Summoner S Tales

Author : Kelley Armstrong,David Liss,Christopher Golden,Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451696684

Get Book

Four Summoner's Tales by Kelley Armstrong,David Liss,Christopher Golden,Jonathan Maberry Pdf

Four terror-inducing novellas from acclaimed bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Christopher Golden, and Jonathan Maberry beginning with the premise: "A stranger comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk's dearly departed from the dead--for a price." In Kelley Armstrong's "Suffer the Children," an acute diphtheria outbreak kills most of the children in an isolated village in nineteen-century Ontario. Then a stranger arrives and offers to bring the children back to life. He wants money, of course, an extravagant sum, but more importantly, but for each child resurrected, one villager must voluntarily offer his life... In David Liss's "The Good-Natured Man," a con man on the margins of eighteenth-century British society discovers a book that reveals the method for bringing the dead back to life. After considering just how far he would go to avoid bringing his violent father back, he realizes the real value of this book. Instead of getting people to pay him to revive their departed, he will get people to pay him "not" to... In "Pipers" by Christopher Golden, the Texas Border Volunteers wage a private war against drug smuggling by Mexican cartels in a modern-day South Texas town, complete with an indestructible army of the risen dead... In "Alive Day" by Jonathan Maberry, a US Army sergeant must dive into the underworld of modern-day Afghanistan to try and barter for the release of his team, never dreaming of the horrors that await him...--

Author : Kelley Armstrong,David Liss,Christopher Golden,Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451696752

Get Book

Four Summoner's Tales by Kelley Armstrong,David Liss,Christopher Golden,Jonathan Maberry Pdf

Four bestselling authors. One hellraising premise. What if the dead could be summoned from their graves—for a price? What if a quartet of distinctive storytellers took a stab at this deceptively simple idea—on a dare? The answers lie here, in Four Summoner’s Tales, as these acclaimed writers accept the challenge and rise to the occasion—in four brilliantly chilling ways. It’s all in the execution. . . “SUFFER THE CHILDREN” BY KELLEY ARMSTRONG, #1 New York Times bestselling author A preacher and his adopted daughter must solve the mystery of the newcomers to their isolated 19th century village—men who are preying on residents' overwhelming grief with promises to bring the stricken back to life. “PIPERS” BY CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN, New York Times bestselling author Twenty-three people have already lost their lives to the ruthless cartel terrorizing their small Texas border town. But one man has a plan for revenge, if the town’s survivors will let him use their loved ones—to raise an army of the undead. “A BAD SEASON FOR NECROMANCY” BY DAVID LISS, National bestselling author In merry old England, a rascally con man stumbles upon a book for raising the dead. But instead of using it to make money by reviving relatives for the rich, he'll do just the opposite. Because some family skeletons need to stay buried. “ALIVE DAY” BY JONATHAN MABERRY, New York Times bestselling author In war-torn Afghanistan, a U.S. military operative and his team face off against an ancient horror during a harrowing off-the-books search-and-rescue mission.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664980

Get Book

The Harleian Ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Jean E. Jost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000681314

Get Book

Chaucer's Humor by Jean E. Jost Pdf

Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer’s works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor within his writing. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature.

Author : Piero Boitani,Jill Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521894670

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer by Piero Boitani,Jill Mann Pdf

Table of contents

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4802 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000682533

Get Book

Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer by Various Pdf

Reissuing works originally published between 1964 and 1994, this superb set of books is an array of scholarship on one of the most important authors of the medieval period. Some of these titles are introductory books on Chaucer and his works but others are specifically focused on his humour, or the sources he drew from, or his importance to the development of English poetry, and between them they address all of his works, not only the Canterbury Tales. A good coverage of critical study in the area of medieval poetry that contains interesting fodder for any literature student or academic.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0806127449

Get Book

The Summoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Part Seven Once reviled as an example of Chaucer at his most tasteless and omitted from some editions of The Canterbury Tales, this scatological anecdote has over time been accorded genuine admiration, first grudging and finally unabashed. As in The Miller’s Tale, Chaucer has elaborated a simple fart joke into pungent satire against human foibles. Here too, through subtle references to religious lore, Chaucer transforms mere vulgarity into a truly clever jest and, in the opinion of some critics, a serious commentary on important issues. The particular target of the tale’s satire is a friar who is so blinded by greed, hypocrisy, and anger that he cannot see how others perceive him.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010681802

Get Book

Specimens of All the Accessible Unprinted Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales: Seven mss. (The Dd. group) 1892. pt. II: Ten mss. (several small groups) 1892. pt. III: Six mss. (Corpus group) [1893] pt. IV: Seventeen mss. with an introduction by John Koch. 1897. pt. V, put forth by F. J. Furnivall: A six-text, -three mss., and three prints from mss. ... with an introduction by Prof. John Koch, a supplement, the prologue and tale from the paper ms. of the College of Physicians, London, and a reproduction of Mr. Paul Hardy's pen-and-ink drawing of "The yard of the Tabard inn" ... 1898. The Clerk's tale and head-link (from mss. that haven't the Pardoner's tale) Put forth by F. J. Furnivall ... pt. VI: Six mss. [1899] pt. VII: put forth by F. J. Furnivall: Two mss. [1900] pt. VIII: Second supplement to the Six-text Pardoner's prologue and tale ... put forth by F. J. Furnivall ... with an introduction by Prof. John Koch. [1901 by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006224066

Get Book

Specimens of All the Accessible Unprinted Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales ... by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597805230

Get Book

The Best Horror of the Year by Ellen Datlow Pdf

This statement was true when H. P. Lovecraft first wrote it at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it remains true at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The only thing that has changed is what is unknown. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this “light” creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness, as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers. The best horror writers of today do the same thing that horror writers of a hundred years ago did. They tell good stories—stories that scare us. And when these writers tell really good stories that really scare us, Ellen Datlow notices. She’s been noticing for more than a quarter century. For twenty-one years, she coedited The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and for the last six years, she’s edited this series. In addition to this monumental cataloging of the best, she has edited hundreds of other horror anthologies and won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards. More than any other editor or critic, Ellen Datlow has charted the shadowy abyss of horror fiction. Join

Author : Kelley Armstrong
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616962036

Get Book

Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong by Kelley Armstrong Pdf

Welcome to the many worlds of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong (Otherworld, Cainsville). As her SyFy channel series, Bitten, enters its second season, Armstrong continues to breathe new life into city-dwelling vampires, werewolves, and zombies. Now travel even further with her, to a post-apocalyptic fortress, a superstitious village, a supernatural brothel, and even feudal Japan. In Led Astray, you’ll discover the stories of new characters from within and outside Armstrong’s popular novels. Here you will find two original tales from Cainsville, plus journeys to and beyond the worlds of Darkest Powers, Age of Legends, Otherworld, and more. Bold and humorous, passionate and heart-stopping, here is Kelley Armstrong at her versatile best.

Author : M.C. Seymour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351962834

Get Book

A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts by M.C. Seymour Pdf

This second volume, which completes the first comprehensive catalogue of Chaucer's manuscripts, describes the 56 extant copies and the fragments of 8 otherwise lost copies of the Canterbury Tales. These manuscripts, last examined together over 50 years ago, are here described after a fresh appraisal and in the light of modern scholarship, and some revisions of date, decoration, dialect, location, provenance, and script are suggested. The Introduction defines some of the major textual problems posed by the manuscripts and presents some thoughts thereon, while suggesting solutions to some incidental cruces. The Indices and Appendices record the citation of lost and unidentified copies of the Canterbury Tales, the names of former owners and associates, and addenda et corrigenda for Volume I. The Catalogue is designed as a reference work for those teachers and students who wish to know what and where the extant material is without the labour of its collection and for those able in the various specialities of manuscript bibliography to advance present knowledge.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000115159083

Get Book

The Cambridge Ms. (Cambridge Univ. Library, Gg. 4. 27) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Richard Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000432308

Get Book

Cursor Mundi by Richard Morris Pdf

Author : Paul A. Olson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400858316

Get Book

The CANTERBURY TALES and the Good Society by Paul A. Olson Pdf

Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of that troubled society through the ideal of parlement, the various orders of society speaking together, and through a perfective religious discipline. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.