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Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316233026
Digging up the remains of an ancient band of Vikings, archaeologist Hildy is astounded when they rise from the dead, bearing an appetite for seagulls, a twelve-thousand-year-old grudge, and a thirst for war.
Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0708883702
Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1857233239
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111100
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316233422
All Malcolm Fisher did was run over a badger. Unfortunately the badger turned out to be Ingolf, last of the giants. With his dying breath he reluctantly gave Malcolm two gifts of power and made him ruler of the world.
Author : Tony Bradman,Margaret Chamberlain
Publisher : Little Simon
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Folklore.
ISBN : 068971291X
A lift-the-flap version of the familiar tale in which three little pigs deal with the big bad wolf.
Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316233224
Sculptress Bianca Wilson is a living legend. St. George is also a legend, but not living. However, when Bianca's sculpture of the patron saint and his scaly chum gets a bit too lifelike, it opens up a new can of wyrms. The dragon knows that in the battle between Good and Evil, Evil got a raw deal and is looking to set the record straight. And George (who cheated) thinks the record's just fine as it is.
Author : Kathleen Forni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429880360
Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and appropriations found in literary texts, comic books, and film. The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated.
Author : Maria Dahvana Headley
Publisher : MCD
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374715540
New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers—a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings—high and gabled—and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside—in lawns and on playgrounds—wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall’s periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights. For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. Dana didn’t want Gren, didn’t plan Gren, and doesn’t know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana’s and Willa’s worlds collide.
Author : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521592526
In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one hand how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge and, on the other, how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. In the field of art history, two essays treat two of the best-known Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The lavish symbol pages in the 'Book of Durrow' are shown to reflect a programmatic exposition of the meaning of Easter, and a posthumous essay by a distinguished art historian shows how the Anglo-Saxon illustrations added to the 'Galba Psalter' are best to be understood in the context of the programme of learning instituted by King Alfred. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316233293
THE PORTABLE DOOR is the first novel set in the magical offices of J. W. Wells. Now a majorly fantastical movie starring Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz, and Miranda Otto. “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.” — Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author Starting a new job is always stressful (especially when you don't want one), but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of J. W. Wells he has no idea what trouble lies in store. He is about to discover that the apparently respectable establishment now paying his salary is a front for a deeply sinister organization. It seems that half the time his bosses are away with the fairies. But they're not, of course. They're away with the goblins. The J.W. Wells & Co. Series: The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Other titles from Tom Holt: Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side Holt Writing as K. J. Parker: Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City How To Rule An Empire and Get Away With It A Practical Guide to Conquering the World
Author : Julia Cresswell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780141912424
A fascinating, thematic exploration of clichés from as the actress said to the bishop to zero hour, explaining what they are and where they’ve come from. Julia Cresswell has taken her best-selling dictionary of clichés (‘Sumptuous... A mine of information.’ Guardian) back to the drawing board and has created a book, packed with famous (and infamous) quotations and memorable information, that will change the way you see English.
Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809512058
Tom Easton has served as the monthly book review columnist for Analog Science Fiction for almost three decades, having contributed during that span many hundreds of columns and over a million words of penetrating criticism on the best literature that science fiction has to offer. His reviews have been celebrated for their wit, humor, readability, knowledge, and incisiveness. His love of literature, particularly fantastic literature, is everywhere evident in his essays. Easton has ever been willing to cover small presses, obscure authors, and unusual publications, being the only major critic in the field to do so on a regular basis. He seems to delight in finding the rare gem among the backwaters of the publishing field. "A reviewer's job," he says, "is not to judge books for the ages, but to tell readers enough about a book to give them some idea of whether they would enjoy it." And this he does admirably, whether he's discussing the works of the great writers in the field, or touching upon the least amongst them. This companion volume to "Periodic Stars" (Borgo/Wildside) collects another 250 of Easton's best reviews from the last fifteen years of "The Reference Library." No one does it better, and no other guide provides such lengthy or discerning commentary on the best SF works of recent times. Complete with Introduction and detailed Index.
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307756787
This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781409239840