Download or read book An Elegy of Heroes written by K. S. Villoso and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Empire of Dageis' quest for magic has left a trail of shattered homes and lost kingdoms. In the cold wake of grief, those left behind must learn to pick up the pieces. A character-driven epic fantasy following the footsteps of Robin Hobb. Book Geeks' Uncompromised Top Books of 2017 The Weatherwax Report Top 10 Indie Tome and Tankard's Best of 2017 Nominated for Best Self-Published/Independent Novel of 2017 for r/fantasy's Stabby Awards Nominated for Best Novel of 2017 for r/fantasy's Stabby Awards After his friend is killed during a botched mission, the mercenary Kefier is chased down by former associates for the crime. Already once branded a murderer, fate seems to continue to frown on him when he comes face-to-face with his friend's sister: Sume, a young woman reeling from her own string of bad luck. As one flees from the past and the other runs to it, they find themselves embroiled in a plot to restore a magical beast to life using children as sustenance. In the meantime, the young, arrogant merchant Ylir takes a special interest in Kefier while he battles with a powerful mage, one whose name has been long forgotten in legend. At the crux of their conflict is that same, terrible creature with one eye, cast from the womb of a witch, with powers so immense whoever possesses it holds the key to bring the continent to its knees. Come and discover K.S. Villoso's debut fantasy series, which has been called "ambitious," "remarkably solid," and "expertly set up."
Download or read book Little Million Doors written by Chad Sweeney and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving poetic account of grief and record of post-traumatic stress after the loss of a parent.
Download or read book An Elegy for Easterly written by Petina Gappah and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his new job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlor brings unexpected riches; a politician's widow stands quietly by at her husband's funeral, watching his colleagues bury an empty casket. Petina Gappah's characters may have ordinary hopes and dreams, but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs half a million dollars, where wives can't trust even their husbands for fear of AIDS, and where people know exactly what will be printed in the one and only daily newspaper because the news is always, always good. In her spirited debut collection, the Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah brings us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe's regime. She takes us across the city of Harare, from the townships beset by power cuts to the manicured lawns of privilege and corruption, where wealthy husbands keep their first wives in the "big houses" while their unofficial second wives wait in the "small houses," hoping for a promotion. Despite their circumstances, the characters in An Elegy for Easterly are more than victims—they are all too human, with as much capacity to inflict pain as to endure it. They struggle with the larger issues common to all people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams, and the yearning for something to anchor them to life.
Download or read book Lectures vol 1 written by Eugene O'Curry and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poet Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley written by Madeleine Callaghan and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron’s and Shelley’s experimentation with the possibilities and pitfalls of poetic heroism unites their work. The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley traces the evolution of the poet-hero in the work of both poets, revealing that the struggle to find words adequate to the poet’s imaginative vision and historical circumstance is their central poetic achievement. Madeleine Callaghan explores the different types of poetic heroism that evolve in Byron’s and Shelley’s poetry and drama. Both poets experiment with, challenge and embrace a variety of poetic forms and genres, and this book discusses such generic exploration in the light of their developing versions of the poet-hero. The heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hero of the Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish written by Eugene O'Curry and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish written by Eugene O'Curry (formerly Curry.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures written by Johann Peter Lange and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroes and Heroines of Fiction written by William S. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays for Richard Ellmann written by Susan Dick and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1989-03-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ... differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic sources even as they command his present attention. Instead of allowing each day, pushed back by the next, to lapse into imprecise memory, he shapes again the experiences which have shaped him." Richard Ellmann died in 1987. His life and work have touched the lives of many. Some of the essays in this collection commemorate Richard Ellmann and his committment to Twentieth Century literature: most provide a continuing investigation of the Twentieth Century literature to which he devoted his carrer. Contributors include: Alison Armstrong, Daniel Albright, Christopher Butler, Carol Cantrell, Jonathan Culler, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Andonis Decavelles, Rupin Desai, Susan Dick, Terence Diggory, Terry Eagleton, Rosita Fanto, Charles Feidelson, James Flannery, Charles Huttar, Bruce Johnson, John Kelleher, Brendan Kennelly, Frank Kermode, Declan Kiberd, Peter Kuch, Bruce Johnson, James Laughlin, A. Walton Litz, Dominic Manganiello, Ellsworth Mason, Christie McDonald, Dougald McMillan, Sean O'Mordha, Vivian Mercier, Mary T. Reynolds, William K. Robertson, Joseph Ronsley, S.P. Rosenbaum, Ann Saddlemyer, Sylvan Schendler, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Senn, Jon Stallworthy, Lonnie Weatherby, Thomas Whitaker, and Elaine Yarosky.
Download or read book The Hero Reloaded written by Rosario López Gregoris and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned into a mass consumption product? What has happened with their literary and artistic representation along centuries of elitist Western culture? This book aims at posing these and other questions about heroes, allowing us to open a cultural reflection over the role of the classical world in the present, its meaning in mass media, and the capacity of the Greek and Roman civilizations to dialogue with the modern world. This dialogue offers a glimpse into modern cultural necessities and tendencies which can be seen in several aspects, such as the hero’s vulnerability, the archetype’s banalization, the possibility to extend the heroic essence to individuals in search of identities – vital as well as gender or class identities. In some products (videogames, heavy metal music) our research enables a deeper understanding of the hero’s more obvious characteristics, such as their physical and moral strength. All these tendencies – contemporary and consumable, contradictory with one another, yet vigorous above all – acquire visibility by means of a polyhedral vehicle which is rich in possibilities of rereading and reworking: the Greco-Roman hero. In such a virtual and postmodern world as the one we inhabit, it comes not without surprise that we still resort to an idea like the hero, which is as old as the West.
Download or read book The New Simonides written by Deborah Dickmann Boedeker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boedecker and Sider's edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into this collection, which is a useful reference for scholars of Greek poetry.
Download or read book On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish lects ed with an intr by W K Sullivan written by Eugene O'Curry and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming Mikhail Lermontov written by David Powelstock and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-28 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretation of Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov reveals how his life and his works can be understood as manifestations of a coherent worldview. It clarifies what has remained perplexing, corrects what has been misinterpreted and illuminates Lermontov's views of many subjects.
Download or read book Elegies written by Mary Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
