Download or read book The King s Riddle written by Kayla Anne Walker and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved king must figure out an heir to take his place. Being King of the Cocoa Beans he uses chocolate to come up with a riddle. Whoever can solve the riddle will become the next King or Queen of the Cocoa Beans. Many people come from far and wide to solve the chocolate conundrum, many try, but only one can take his place.
Download or read book The King Of Riddles written by Karen J Bun and published by Han Global Trading Pte Limited. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you solve this? Every day after working on the 11th floor all day, a man takes the elevator to the first floor. However, on the way to work each morning, he takes the elevator up to the 8th floor and then uses the stairs to arrive at the 11th floor, no matter what, unless his colleagues are on the elevator with him or it's raining outside. Explain why he does this. "This is the ULTIMATE riddle book that Karen has ever written!" - Joe J. Michelle Fischer - "My children and I spend one hour cracking each riddle daily. We absolutely it!" "Definitely the king of riddles." - Steve MA Ben L. "I thought I knew the answers, but I was wrong!" Packed full of over 350 different quality from easy to very trick riddles, this book gives you the chance to exercise your brainpower to think out of the box and to seek to solve problems by unorthodox or apparently illogical methods. This book is ideal for both adults and children, and can be used in schools, on training courses, as an after-dinner game and as a great way to entertain any small group that likes a mental challenge. To test your wits and free up your imagination, get this book now! Learn to open your mind and think outside the box with these mind-blowing riddles crafted to enhance your lateral thinking. The book is filled with "What Am I?" riddles, lateral thinking word riddles and enigmas. Challenge Yourself With These Riddles By Clicking the "Buy Now" Button at the Top of the Page.
Download or read book The Etymologicon written by Mark Forsyth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what, precisely, the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. This witty book will awake the linguist in you and illuminate the hidden meanings behind common words and phrases, tracing their evolution through all of their surprising paths throughout history.
Download or read book King Bartholomew and the Jesters Riddle written by Pina Mastromonaco and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Bartholomew loves riddles, puzzles, and word games. But when the court jester gives him a challenging riddle the king is stumped. Now the embarrassed king is questioning everyones loyalty. Will King Bartholomew banish his disloyal suspects and be lonely forever or will he solve the riddle and restore order in the kingdom?
Download or read book Fable King written by Del Winterbottom and published by Del Winterbottom. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Mern is a special boy from Manchester, England, who can speak to animals, and on his eighteenth birthday, he is greeted by a rabbit named Ware, who gives Billy the news that he is a Fable King, and a Fable King can have a wonderful relationship with all walks of life. After a frightening assassination attempt, Billy Mern ends up going with Ware to a mythical island called Memoril, and on this island, that is home to all creatures, common, legendary, great and small, he must go on a journey, all around Memoril; he must find and gather his seven chosen newborn fable companions: a baby phoenix, a baby snake, a baby dragon, a baby kraken, a baby wolf, a baby dinosaur, and a baby giant spider. And if Billy can do that, if he can travel all around this fantastic island and traverse the many dangers it has in store, then together, with his seven fable companions, he must go deep into the pit of the island's heart, deep, deep down into the Dark Ruin, and there he must defeat the evil Fable God - Deathendus - a magic-breathing half-dragon, half-serpent beast!
Download or read book Riddles of Belonging written by Christi A. Merrill and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change. Herself a skilled translator, Merrill uses these examples to investigate the expectation that translated work should allow the non-English-speaking subaltern to speak directly to the English-speaking reader. She plays with the trope of speaking to argue against treating a translated text as property, as a singular material object to be "carried across" (as trans-latus implies.) She refigures translation as a performative "telling in turn," from the Hindi word anuvad, to explain how a text might be multiply possessed. She thereby challenges the distinction between "original" and "derivative," fundamental to nationalist and literary discourse, humoring our melancholic fixation on what is lost. Instead, she offers strategies for playing along with the subversive wit found in translated texts. Sly jokes and spirited double entendres, she suggests, require equally spirited double hearings. The playful lessons offered by these narratives provide insight into the networks of transnational relations connecting us across a sea of differences. Generations of multilingual audiences in India have been navigating this "Ocean of the Stream of Stories" since before the 11th century, arriving at a fluid sense of commonality across languages. Salman Rushdie is not the first to pose crucial questions of belonging by telling a version of this narrative: the work of non-English-language writers like Vijay Dan Detha, whose tales are at the core of this book, asks what responsibilities we have to make the rights and wrongs of these fictions come alive "age after age."
Download or read book The Husband s Message the Accompanying Riddles of the Exeter Book written by Francis Adelbert Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chez Vicalle written by J. Blovian and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young male university graduate contracts an unusual marriage which results in a set of dizygotic twins and the ownership of an unusual home and life style.
Download or read book Oswiu King of Kings written by Edoardo Albert and published by Lion Fiction. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Edoardo Albert’s book is brilliant: hugely enjoyable, a galloping plot with characters I care about – exactly the sort of thing I love to read. . . . This was a joy to read from start to finish.' Conn Iggulden, author of the Conqueror and Emperor series. Oswald’s head is on a spike. Can Oswiu avoid the same fate? The great pagan king Penda set a trap, and when the brothers Oswiu and Oswald walked in, only one came back alive. Rumours abound that the place where Oswald’s body is strung up has become sacred ground a site of healing for those who seek it. Oswald’s mother believes he will protect those he loves, even beyond the grave. So she asks the impossible of Oswiu: to journey to the heart of Penda’s kingdom and rescue the body that was stolen from them. Oswiu: King of Kings is the masterful conclusion to The Northumbrian Thrones trilogy.
Download or read book The World s Best Conundrums and Riddles of All Ages written by James Gilchrist Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curious History of the Riddle written by Marcel Danesi Ph.D. and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious History of the Riddle investigates the fascinating origin and history of the riddle, from the very first riddle (the Riddle of the Sphinx) to the twenty-first century, with riddles found in pop culture, including movies (Us), television shows (Game of Thrones) video games, and escape rooms. Riddles are ageless, timeless, and so common that we hardly ever reflect upon what they are and how they originated. Most importantly, their invention helped in the development of lateral thinking, the form of thinking that is the foundation of all kinds of discoveries, from mathematics to science and beyond. In The Curious History of the Riddle, puzzle expert Marcel Danesi delves deep into the riddle's origin and history and covers these fascinating topics: 1. The Riddle of the Sphinx: Origins, Legends, Patterns What creature walks on all fours at dawn, two at midday, and three at twilight? (answer: man) 2. The Greek Anthology and the Exeter Book: Medieval Views and Uses of Riddles This chapter looks at the spread of the riddle in recreational and educational contexts. 3. The Merry Book of Riddles: Riddles in the Renaissance By the late Renaissance, riddles were being tailored more and more to produce humorous or whimsical effects. 4. Enigmas, Charades, and Conundrums: Riddles from the 1600s to the Twentieth Century After the Renaissance, riddles had become virtually every literate European person’s favorite form of recreation, and were included as regular features of many newspapers and periodicals 5. The Twentieth Century: Riddles as Children’s Literature In the twentieth century, riddles became specialized for children, spreading throughout children’s literature and educational manuals. 6. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Riddles Go to the Movies and Online In this chapter, the focus is on riddles in various entertainment media, from best-selling novels such as Harry Potter, to movies, such as the Batman series. 7. Connections: Riddles and Rebuses This chapter explores the structure of rebuses as visual riddles, connecting them historically. Part history book, part puzzle book, The Curious History of the Riddle is fully illustrated with over 200 riddles interspersed throughout the text for solving.
Download or read book Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature A Handbook written by Jane Garry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world. Each entry is written by a noted authority in the field, and includes accompanying reference citations. Entries are keyed to the Motif-Index of Folk Literature by Stith Thompson and grouped according to that Index's scheme. The reference also includes an introductory essay on the concepts of archetypes and motifs and the scholarship associated with them. This is the only book in English on motifs and themes that is completely folklore oriented, deals with motif numbers, and is tied to the Thompson Motif-Index. It includes in-depth examination of such motifs as: Bewitching; Chance and Fate; Choice of Roads; Death or Departure of the Gods; the Double; Ghosts and Other Revenants; the Hero Cycle; Journey to the Otherworld; Magic Invulnerability; Soothsayer; Transformation; Tricksters.
Download or read book Dreams Truths Secrets written by Orlando Rivera and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Jack Kingsley lost his business, the last thing he wanted to hear was the slamming of the door behind his beloved wife as she walked out, saying, I didnt marry you to struggle, Jack Kingsley. With his life unraveling, Jack returns to New Eden Park, where he spent many wonderful days growing up. Perhaps by going back to this place where his life had started with so much promise, he could recapture a new direction and purpose to his existence. Trying very hard to keep hold of his sanity shortly after arriving at the park, Jack meets Mrs. Barbara Bailey, who offers him some hope and wisdom by sharing her triumph over tragic experiences of her own. But it is Mrs. Barbara Baileys exit and what she seems to have left behind that delivers an introduction to the strangest of experiences. Little did Jack know that a conversation with money, literally, would hold so many of lifes secrets and the key to his own victory over adversity and misfortune. Everything in Jacks life begins to change as he speaks to Fifty, a fifty-dollar bill. Jack experiences his own inner awakening and self-discovery as he listens and watches as the most unconventional of characters becomes his guide and counselor. Fifty unveils a unique and creative perspective of human behavior, happiness, fulfillment, and successful living from moneys vantage point. Fifty speaks to Jack and reveals the Code of Truths for money and life through a series of simple but profound stories that will serve as a guide to steer him in the right direction and hopefully into successful living. Finally, of a new mind, Jack sets out to claim a second chance at life. In many ways, Jack Kingsley is all of us. The pursuit of happiness through a great education, a great job or business, a fabulous mate, and lofty financial dreams are all but a part of who we are as individuals. Unfortunately, Jack, like many of us, finds himself in a precarious financial situation, in a family on the verge of collapse, and in disbelief as to how it all got to this point. For many of us, what started out as a promising life unfolds disappointingly as we settle for an existence below our expectations. Dreams Truths Secrets is a book about the eternal truths that are available to us, waiting to be discovered, and how to understand them and use them to achieve fulfillment and balance in our lives. Fifty takes Jack and walks him through the mistakes he has made and provides for him the Code of Truths to teach him that not all is lost. Fifty explains to Jack that his life could be turned around and his financial goals could be achieved if he is only willing to change and learn that life is a great teacher and that mistakes are our allies that serve as lessons on our pathway to fulfillment. Fifty is the wise and loving voice that all of us could use here and now.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible written by Susanne Scholz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together 37 essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies. Organized into four major areas - globalization, neoliberalism, media, and intersectionality - the essays collectively provide vibrant, relevant, and innovative contributions to the field. The topics of analysis focus heavily on gender and queer identity, with essays touching on African, Korean, and European feminist hermeneutics, womanist and interreligious readings, ecofeminist and animal biblical studies, migration biblical studies, the role of gender binary voices in evangelical-egalitarian approaches, and the examination of scripture in light of trans women's voices. The volume also includes essays examining the Old Testament as recited in music, literature, film, and video games. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible charts a culturally, hermeneutically, and exegetically cutting-edge path for the ongoing development of biblical studies grounded in feminist, womanist, gender, and queer perspectives.
Download or read book Stephen King s Modern Macabre written by Patrick McAleer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Stephen King has continued to publish numerous works beyond one of the many high points of his career, in the 1980s, scholarship has not always kept up with his output. This volume presents 13 essays (12 brand new) on many of King's recent writings that have not received the critical attention of his earlier works. This collection is grouped into three categories--"King in the World Around Us," "Spotlight on The Dark Tower" and "Writing into the Millennium"; each examines an aspect of King's contemporary canon that has yet to be analyzed.
Download or read book The World of the Irish Wonder Tale written by Elliott B. Gose, Jr. and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1985-12-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales are a rich element of childhood in many cultures around the world. But in Ireland, where they are known as wonder tales, these stories of magic and enchantment are not restricted to young audiences; Irish wonder tales are told to adults. So that the modern reader can fully appreciate them, Gose provides an interdisciplinary overview. He identifies a number of approaches – psychological, anthropological, structural, comparative, and typological.
Download or read book The Riddle in the Tale written by Taffy Thomas MBE and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have been fascinated by riddles for as long as we have had language – think of the legend of the sphinx in Greek mythology. This wonderful book includes both magical riddle tales and simple challenges, with clues and answers hidden in intricate illustrations. Discover how the farmer saved his daughter by solving the fairies' riddles or how the old hen-wife helped the two brothers solve the mystery of their father's will. Have a read – you'll be hooked.
