Laughter Of Carthage

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604867763

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Laughter of Carthage by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, that charming but despicable mythomaniac who first appeared in Byzantium Endures, is back. Having fled Bolshevik Russia in late 1919, Pyat’s progress is a series of leaps from crisis to crisis, as he begins affairs with a Baroness and a Greek prostitute while undertaking schemes to build flying machines in Europe and the United States. His devotion to flamboyantly racist, particularly anti-Semitic doctrines—like his devotion to cocaine—remains unabated, and he both sings the praises of Mussolini and lectures across America for the Ku Klux Klan. (His best kept secret is of course, the fact that he is Jewish.) As the novel ends, Pyat is in Hollywood—his new Byzantium—hobnobbing with movie stars and dreaming of making films like those of his hero, D.W. Griffith. Engineer, braggart, addict, Pyat is a magnificent invention, a genius of innocent vituperation: his finest achievement (and that of the author) is that his own warped and deluded vision is powerful enough to redefine reality. This authoritative edition presents the first time this work has been available in paperback in the U.S., along with a new introduction by Alan Wall.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Pm Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1604864923

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The Laughter of Carthage by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Via a series of crises, self-hating Jew and cocaine addict Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat, makes his way from 1919 Bolshevik Russia to a Hollywood on the rise. Reissue.

Author : Mark Scroggins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476663074

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Michael Moorcock by Mark Scroggins Pdf

Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnibone is an iconic figure for millions of fans but Moorcock has also been a pioneer in science fiction and historical fiction. He was hailed as the central figure of the "New Wave" in science fiction, and has won numerous awards for his fantasy and SF, as well as his "mainstream" writing. This first full-length critical look at Moorcock's career, from the early 1960s to the present, explores the author's fictional multiverse: his fantasy tales of the "Eternal Champion"; his experimental Jerry Cornelius novels; the hilarious science-fiction satire of his "End of Time" books; and his complex meditations on 20th century history in Mother London and the Colonel Pyat tetralogy.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Random House
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Pyatnitski, Maxim Arturovich (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780099485094

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Byzantium Endures by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks. Still a student at St Petersburg, he is deflected into more immediate concerns, caught up in the rip-tide of history.

Author : Alfred John Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Carthage
ISBN : MINN:319510020244118

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Carthage by Alfred John Church Pdf

Author : Lynne Gentry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746357

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Healer of Carthage by Lynne Gentry Pdf

A modern-day doctor gets trapped in third-century Carthage, Rome, where she uncovers buried secrets, confronts Christian persecution, and battles a deadly epidemic to save the man she loves. A twenty-first-century doctor. A third-century plague. A love out of time. First-year resident Dr. Lisbeth Hastings is too busy to take her father’s bizarre summons seriously. But when a tragic mistake puts her career in jeopardy, answering her father’s call seems her only hope of redeeming the devastating failure that her life has become. While exploring the haunting cave at her father’s archaeological dig, Lisbeth falls through a hidden hole, awakening to find herself the object of a slave auction and the ruins of Roman Carthage inexplicably restored to a thriving metropolis. Is it possible that she’s traveled back in time, and, if so, how can she find her way back home? Cyprian Thascius believes God called him to rescue the mysterious woman from the slave trader’s cell. What he doesn’t understand is why saving the church of his newfound faith requires him to love a woman whose peculiar ways could get him killed. But who is he to question God? As their different worlds collide, it sparks an intense attraction that unites Lisbeth and Cyprian in a battle against a deadly epidemic. Even as they confront persecution, uncover buried secrets, and ignite the beginnings of a medical revolution, Roman wrath threatens to separate them forever. Can they find their way to each other through all these obstacles? Or are the eighteen hundred years between them too far of a leap?

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604868944

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Vengeance of Rome by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Byzantium Endures, the first volume of Michael Moorcock’s legendary Pyat Quartet, appeared in 1981. The Laughter of Carthage (1984) and Jerusalem Commands (1992) followed. Now the quartet is complete. Pyat keeps his appointment with the age’s worst nightmare. Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish antisemite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. Bisexual, cocaine-loving engineer/inventor/spy, he enthusiastically embraces Fascism. Hero-worshipping Mussolini, he enters the dictator’s circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolini’s wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate with Ernst Röhm, the homosexual stormtrooper leader. His crucial role in the Nazi Party’s struggle for power has him performing perverted sex acts with “Alf,” as the Führer’s friends call him. Pyat’s extraordinary luck leaves him after he witnesses Hitler’s massacre of Röhm and the SA. At last he is swallowed up in Dachau concentration camp. Thirty years later, having survived the Spanish Civil War, he is living in Portobello Road and telling his tale to a writer called Moorcock. This authoritative edition presents this work for the first time in the United States, along with a new introduction by Alan Wall.

Author : Alfred John Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Carthage
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011506516

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The Story of Carthage by Alfred John Church Pdf

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604868685

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Jerusalem Commands by Michael Moorcock Pdf

”I will admit I was lured into temptation during the twenties and thirties, and I blame no one for what happened then, least of all myself.” Unmistakably, this is the voice of Colonel Pyat, addict, inventor, and bizarre Everyman for the twentieth century. In Jerusalem Commands, the third of the Pyat quartet, our hero schemes and fantasises his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakech, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage in his wake as he crashes towards an inevitable appointment with the worst nightmare this century has to offer. It is Michael Moorcock’s extraordinary achievement to convert the life of Maxim Pyatnitski into epic and often hilariously comic adventure. Sustained by his dreams and profligate inventions, his determination to turn his back on the realities of his own origins, Pyat runs from crisis to crisis, every ruse a further link in a vast chain of deceit, suppression, betrayal. Yet, in his deranged self-deception, his monumentally distorted vision, this thoroughly unreliable narrator becomes a lens for focusing, through the dimensions of wild farce and chilling terror, on an uneasy brand of truth.

Author : Friedrich Donauer
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819601128

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Swords Against Carthage by Friedrich Donauer Pdf

Author : Robin E. Levin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426996078

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The Death of Carthage by Robin E. Levin Pdf

The Death of Carthage tells the story of the Second and third Punic wars that took place between ancient Rome and Carthage in three parts. The first book, Carthage Must Be Destroyed, covering the second Punic war, is told in the first person by Lucius Tullius Varro, a young Roman of equestrian status who is recruited into the Roman cavalry at the beginning of the war in 218 BC. Lucius serves in Spain under the Consul Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, the Proconsul Cneius Cornelius Scipio. Captivus, the second book, is narrated by Lucius's first cousin Enneus, who is recruited to the Roman cavalry under Gaius Flaminius and taken prisoner by Hannibal's general Maharbal after the disastrous Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene in 217 BC. Enneus is transported to Greece and sold as a slave, where he is put to work as a shepherd on a large estate and establishes his life there. The third and final book, The Death of Carthage, is narrated by Enneus's son, Ectorius. As a rare bilingual, Ectorius becomes a translator and serves in the Roman army during the war and witnesses the total destruction of Carthage in the year 146 BC. This historical saga, full of minute details on day-to-day life in ancient times, depicts two great civilizations on the cusp of influencing the world for centuries to come.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007485765

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Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

A young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.

Author : R.I.Lockett
Publisher : Rob Lockett
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798389925670

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The Guardians of Celesk - Part One by R.I.Lockett Pdf

It came during the most desperate of times, after a reign of bloodshed. It thundered on in spite of terror, hopelessness and the great chain of inequity. It shattered shackles and in its momentum gathered all in its wake. It was hope. In the new era, it rewrote the narrative and finally set the world free. Yet in the new age, the tides of war and revolution bring an old enemy of the Guardians, the Exile, who will destroy their sanctum and wreak destruction upon their lands. Their only hope lies in the form of a powerful child, and she will need to be trained...

Author : Matthew Steggle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351922999

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Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres by Matthew Steggle Pdf

Did Shakespeare's original audiences weep? Equally, while it seems obvious that they must have laughed at plays performed in early modern theatres, can we say anything about what their laughter sounded like, about when it occurred, and about how, culturally, it was interpreted? Related to both of these problems of audience behaviour is that of the stage representation of laughing, and weeping, both actions performed with astonishing frequency in early modern drama. Each action is associated with a complex set of non-verbal noises, gestures, and cultural overtones, and each is linked to audience behaviour through one of the axioms of Renaissance dramatic theory: that weeping and laughter on stage cause, respectively, weeping and laughter in the audience. This book is a study of laughter and weeping in English theatres, broadly defined, from around 1550 until their closure in 1642. It is concerned both with the representation of these actions on the stage, and with what can be reconstructed about the laughter and weeping of theatrical audiences themselves, arguing that both actions have a peculiar importance in defining the early modern theatrical experience.

Author : Reginald Bosworth Smith
Publisher : Hesperides Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081837159

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Carthage and the Carthaginians by Reginald Bosworth Smith Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.