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Shadowplay

Author : Joseph O'Connor
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609455941

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A West End theater in London is shaken up by the crimes of Jack the Ripper in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Star of the Sea. Henry Irving is Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving’s theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the century’s most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but also on Stoker and Irving both. Bram Stoker’s extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, his early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Ellen Terry, inspire him to write Dracula, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published. A magnificent portrait both of lamp-lit London and of lives and loves enacted on the stage, Shadowplay’s rich prose, incomparable storytelling, and vivid characters will linger in readers’ hearts and minds for many years. “A vibrantly imaginative narrative of passion, intrigue and literary ambition set in the garish heyday of a theater. . . . Artfully splicing truth with fantasy, O’Connor has a glorious time turning a ramshackle and haunted London playhouse into a primary source for Stoker’s Gothic imaginings.” —Miranda Seymour, The New York Times Book Review “A gorgeously written historical novel about Stoker’s inner life. . . . I wasn’t prepared to be awed by his prose, which is so good you can taste it. . . . O’Connor dazzles.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “And Mr. O’Connor’s main characters—Stoker, Irving and the beloved actress Ellen Terry—are so forcefully brought to life that when, close to tears, you reach this drama’s final page, you will return to the beginning just to remain in their company.” —Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal “This novel blows the dust off its Victorian trappings and brings them to scintillating life.” —Publishers Weekly, PW Picks, Starred Review FINALIST 2019 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2020 DALKEY LITERARY AWARD 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE

Shadowplay

Author : Amber Benson
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Horror comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1933239840

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This special collection presents the fantastic art of Ashley Wood and Ben Templesmith under one cover. In "Demon Father John's Pinwheel Blues," Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Tara) and Ben craft a tale of a syndicate of vampire street children that is turned upside down by new recruit Pinwheel. In "Shunt," Christina Z and Ash present the tale of the perfect woman, who gives up the perfect life to uncover a heinous human slavery ring run by an elite group of vampires. Vampires who transform their beautiful female victims into the most sensually marketable product. Within the torture and depravity lies a twisted tale of obsessive passion and furious loyalty.

Shadowplay

Author : Clare Asquith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781541774308

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In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such violently volatile times apparently make no comment about the state of England in his work? He did. But it was hidden. Revealing Shakespeare's sophisticated version of a forgotten code developed by 16th-century dissidents, Clare Asquith shows how he was both a genius for all time and utterly a creature of his own era: a writer who was supported by dissident Catholic aristocrats, who agonized about the fate of England's spiritual and political life and who used the stage to attack and expose a regime which he believed had seized illegal control of the country he loved. Shakespeare's plays offer an acute insight into the politics and personalities of his era. And Clare Asquith's decoding of them offers answers to several mysteries surrounding Shakespeare's own life, including most notably why he stopped writing while still at the height of his powers. An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, Shadowplay is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.

Shadowplay

Author : Tad Williams
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101218648

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A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, and the Eddon family held the throne. King Olin Eddon is a prisoner in a faraway land, and Olin's heir Kendrick is dead—slain by treachery and dark, bloody magic. With their father and brother taken from them, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together, but now Barrick has been captured in a failed war against the immortal Twilight People and Briony has been forced to flee. Behind the Shadowline, Prince Barrick is lost and spellbound in the land of the fairies, while Princess Briony finds both allies and deadly enemies in unexpected places far from the land of her birth. During their desperate journeys the twins discover that even a land's rulers may know little of it's true history, and that both families and nations can hide dark and terrible secrets. But even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to do the impossible: they must reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home and people from the multitude of powerful enemies—from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry gods themselves.

Shadowplay

Author : Laura Lam
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509807819

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Seven Devils Old magics are waking. But will the world survive their return? Micah Grey almost died when he fled the circus with Drystan - now he and the ex-clown seek to outrun disaster. Drystan persuades his old friend Jasper Maske, a once-renowned magician, to take them in. But when he agrees to teach them his trade, Maske is challenged to the ultimate high-stakes duel by his embittered arch-nemesis. Micah must perfect his skills of illusion, while navigating a tender new love. An investigator is also hunting the person he once seemed to be - a noble family's runaway daughter. As the duel draws near, Micah increasingly suffers from visions showing him real magic and future terrors. Events that broke the ancient world are being replayed. But can Micah's latent powers influence this deadly pattern? Praise for the series 'A fantastical, richly drawn, poignant take on a classic coming-of-age story' – Leigh Bardugo 'A fable-like story as beautifully unique as its main character' – Malinda Lo

Shadowplay

Author : Donna Perlmutter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041122800

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Shadowplay

Author : Jo Clayton
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756417758

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Now in ebook for the first time, the first book of Clayton's classic trilogy, Shadith's Quest Spacenapped when she stumbled on a kidnapping in progress, Shadith—captive for centuries in the alien artifact known as the Diadem, now once again living in a human form—finds herself the prisoner of Ginbiryol Seyirshi, a being who has instigated devastating wars on world after world purely to film and sell Limited Editions of the resulting violence, destruction, and death. Along with two fellow humanoid prisoners, Shadith has been chosen to play a key role in Seyirshi's newest "production", serving as a demigod around whom the rebel forces will rally only to face a terrible doom. But prisoner though she is, Shadith has some unique resources of her own, and with these Diadem-mastered powers, she will do all she can to rewrite Seyirshi's script so that the people of this troubled planet as well as she and her fellow captives can win their freedom and put an end to Seyirshi's interstellar reign of terror...

Shadowplay

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1783964464

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Shadowplay

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Coups d'état
ISBN : IND:30000045473372

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My Little Pony: Shadowplay

Author : Josh Haber,Nicole Dubuc,Justin Eisinger
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684069569

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My Little Pony: Shadowplay by Josh Haber,Nicole Dubuc,Justin Eisinger Pdf

Relive your favorite episodes of the beloved My Little Pony animated cartoon in this graphic novel adaptation featuring season seven's "Shadowplay!" When Sunburst discovers the lost journal of Star Swirl the Bearded, he shares it with Twilight Sparkle. Together, they find out how the sorcerer and several other of Equestria's heroes, known as the Pillars of Old Equestria, sacrificed themselves to defeat the evil Pony of Shadows. After researching more about the heroes' disappearance, Twilight believes that the Pillars are still alive and trapped in limbo and becomes obsessed with trying to free them—but that might not be such a good idea!

Spellmonger

Author : Terry Lee Mancour
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522975039

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Minalan gave up a promising career as a professional warmage to live the quiet life of a village spellmonger in the remote mountain valley of Boval. It was a peaceful, beautiful little fief, far from the dangerous feudal petty squabbles of the Five Duchies, on the world of Callidore. There were cows. Lots of cows. And cheese. For six months things went well: he found a quaint little shop, befriended the local lord, the village folk loved him, he found a sharp young apprentice to help out, and best yet, he met a comely young widow with the prettiest eyes . . . Then one night Minalan is forced to pick up his mageblade again to defend his adopted home from the vanguard of an army of goblins - gurvani, they call themselves - bent on a genocidal crusade against all mankind. And that was the good news. The bad news was that their shamans were armed with more magical power than has been seen since the days of the ancient Imperial Magocracy - and their leader, a mysterious, vengeful force of hate and dark magic, is headed directly to Boval Vale, along with a massive invading army of gurvani. The good people of Boval and their spellmonger have only one choice: to hole up in the over-sized Boval Castle and hope they can endure a siege against hundreds of thousands of goblins. When the people look to him for hope, Minalan does his best, but the odds are depressing: there are multitudes of goblins, and they want Boval Vale as a staging ground for a vengeful invasion of the whole Five Duchies. Add to his troubles a jealous rival mage, a motley band of mercenaries, a delusional liege lord who insists victory is at hand despite the hordes at his door, a dour castellan, a moody, pregnant girlfriend and a catty ex-girlfriend who specializes in sex magic - all trapped in a stinking, besieged castle with no hope of rescue, and you'll understand why Minalan is willing to take his chances with the goblins. All that stands between the gurvani horde and the people of the Five Duchies is one tired, overwhelmed baker's son who wanted nothing more than to be a simple village spellmonger!

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

Author : Zhang Zhen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0226982378

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Illustrating the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change, this book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature.

Shadow Play

Author : Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business and politics
ISBN : 9781487525729

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Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.

Shadow Play

Author : Iris Johansen
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250020093

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Shadow Play is a New York Times bestseller from Iris Johansen. Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity and investment in the case puzzle her. But when the ghost of the girl begins communicating with her, Eve finds herself wrapped up in the case more intensely than she could have ever imagined. Not since Bonnie has Eve had such an experience, and suddenly she finds herself determined to solve the murder and help the little girl find peace. Except that the killer is still out there, and he knows Eve is on the case. And he won't rest until anything and anyone that could reveal his identity is eliminated...

Shadow Play

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393322742

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His wife does magic tricks, his crazy mother invents her own vocabulary, and his aunt writes a holy book. Still Wyatt Palmer tries to live a normal life. But when he lures a toxic waste plant to his economically depressed town, he discovers he has made a deal with the Devil.