The Jewel In The Skull

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575109704

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The Jewel In The Skull by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Dorian Hawkmoon, the last Duke of Koln, swore to destroy the Dark Empire of Granbretan. But after his defeat and capture at the hands of the vast forces of the Empire, Hawkmoon becomes a puppet, co-opted by his arch nemesis, the ruthless Baron Meliadus, to infiltrate the last stronghold of rebellion against Granbretan: the small but powerful city of the Kamarg. He has been implanted with a black jewel, through which the Dark Empire can control his every decision. But in the stronghold of the Kamarg, Hawkmoon discovers the power inside him to overcome any control, and his vengeance against the Dark Empire is filled with an unrelenting fury.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 0575074698

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The History of the Runestaff by Michael Moorcock Pdf

The earth has grown old, her landscapes mellow, her people lost in abrooding dream. It is an age of antique cities, scientific sorcery, crystal machines, great flying engines with mechanical wings. And the armies of the Dark Empire are relentlessly taking over the once-peaceful city states, ravaging and destroying as they advance, mile by brutal mile ... The Dark Empire has humiliated and multilated Dorian Hawkmoon, but it cannot rob him of his two consuming passions: his love for Yisselda of Brass and his hatred of her ruthless suitor Meliadus. But before he can defy the Dark Empire and win the beauteous Yisselda, he must seek the Runestaff, a quest that will send him into barbaric wonder and perverse evil ... and only if he succeeds will her avert the doom of all the world ...

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575092471

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The City in the Autumn Stars by Michael Moorcock Pdf

The City In The Autumn Stars: Being A Continuation Of The Story Of The Von Bek Family And Its Association With Lucifer, Prince Of Darkness, And The Cure For The World's Pain. Disillusioned by the excesses of the French Revolution, Manfred von Bek flees to the city of Mirenburg, where a Scottish balloonist, an elusive duchess, and a fallen angel become his companions on a journey to the mystical Mittelmarch - the land between lands- in search of the Holy Grail.

Author : James Cawthorn,Jim Cawthorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : British comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0861300068

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The Jewel in the Skull by James Cawthorn,Jim Cawthorn Pdf

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575110212

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The Runestaff by Michael Moorcock Pdf

The Dark Empire of Granbretan has humiliated and mutilated Dorian Hawkmoon, but it cannot rob him of his two consuming passions: his love for Yisselda of Brass and his hatred of her ruthless suitor Meliadus. But before he can defy the Dark Empire and win the beauteous Yisselda, he must seek the Runestaff, a quest that will send him into barbaric wonder and perverse evil ... and only if he succeeds will he avert the doom of all the world...

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466872073

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The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear Pdf

Hugo Award–winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of the Eternal Sky with a brand new trilogy. Best SFF Books 2017—The Guardian Kirkus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017 The Verge Recommended Fantasy for 2017 Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List The Stone in the Skull, the first volume in her new trilogy, takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south into the Lotus Kingdoms. The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort. They are walking into a dynastic war between the rulers of the shattered bits of a once great Empire. The Lotus Kingdoms #1 The Stone in the Skull #2 The Red-Stained Wings The Eternal Sky Trilogy #1 Range of Ghosts #2 Shattered Pillars #3 Steles of the Sky At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Frigyes Karinthy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590172582

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A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy Pdf

The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575092495

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Count Brass by Michael Moorcock Pdf

'War, albeit with the Dark Empire, was clean compared to this...' Years after the defeat of the evil empire of Granbretan, Duke Dorian Hawkmoon and his beloved Yisselda have rebuilt the Kamarg, the land once ruled by Yisselda's father, the late Count Brass. But their lives are turned upside down when the spectre of the dead count returns, possessed of the belief that he can return to life if he slays the one who led him to his death in the Battle of Londra: his former ally - and now son-in-law - Dorian Hawkmoon.

Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593687598

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Artful by Ali Smith Pdf

Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a meditation on art and storytelling, a book about love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith’s heady powers as a fiction writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate. Artful is a book about the things art can do, the things art is full of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. It glances off artists and writers from Michelangelo through Dickens, then all the way past postmodernity, exploring every form, from ancient cave painting to 1960s cinema musicals. This kaleidoscope opens up new, inventive, elastic insights—on the relation of aesthetic form to the human mind, the ways we build our minds from stories, the bridges art builds between us. Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world and a meaningful contribution to that worth in itself. There has never been a book quite like it.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575110182

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The Sword of the Dawn by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Duke Dorian Hawkmoon's quest to destroy the Dark Empire of Granbretan leads him onto the path of a man who possess a rare ring that allows men to travel through time. Hawkmoon uses this ring to travel to a far future New Orleans, where he must battle the Pirate Lords who possess the Great Sword of the Dawn, which can end the Dark Empire once and for all.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:873328646

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Breakfast in the Ruins by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016754157

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The Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Author : Paul Gambino
Publisher : Laurence King
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1786276518

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Skulls by Paul Gambino Pdf

It is said that the skull is the only human body part that is as powerful dead as it was when living. Skulls takes the reader on an eerie journey through history seen through the hollow eye sockets of this crown jewel of the human skeleton. The book is made up of a series of short illustrated stories laced with fascinating facts, historical and medical references, and compelling anecdotes. The testimonials of thirty-plus skull collectors reveal what is known of - or speculated about - the often gruesome history of the skulls, as well as how they were acquired, and what makes them so highly prized.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441318479

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The Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Dorian Hawkmoon, under the power of the legendary runestaff, fears that the ancient artifact will fall into the wrong hands and become a source of evil, and must travel to the ends of the earth to obtain it

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000068304621

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Bone and Jewel Creatures by Elizabeth Bear Pdf

Dark magic is afoot in the City of Jackals... Eighty years Bijou the Artificer has been a Wizard of Messaline, building her servants from precious scraps, living with the memory of a great love that betrayed her. She is ready to rest. But now her former apprentice, Brazen the Enchanter, has brought her a speechless feral child poisoned by a sorcerous infection. Now, Messaline is swept by a mysterious plague. Now the seeping corpses of the dead stalk the streets. Now, finally, Bijou's old nemesis--Bijou's old love--Kaulas the Necromancer is unleashing a reeking half-death on Bijou's people. And only Bijou and her creatures wrought of bone and jewels can save the City of Jackals from his final revenge.