Download or read book Killing Adonis written by J M Donellan and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first mystery from Donellan will remind many readers of Tom Robbins' work: cleverly crafted and overflowing with idiosyncratic characters and mordant humor... A most unusual mystery, indeed." —Kirkus Reviews STARRED review Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The Vincettis claim this golden boy is everything from a saint to a genius, but they refuse to reveal how he entered a comatose state. As Freya explores the labyrinthine Vincetti mansion and the secrets it holds, she becomes aware that the family members are far more deluded and dangerous than rumored. Why, during the next few weeks, do the heads of rival corporations rapidly fall prey to a series of elaborate executions? Do Vincettis pre-plan disasters like oil spills so that their rivals are squelched and their humanitarian responses get prime press coverage? Freya befriends Jack Vincetti, the black sheep whose rare illness keeps him shut away. She's a fan of his sole novel, but now she learns that he is writing a new book with a storyline that has uncanny similarities to the recent murders. Things take an even more bizarre turn when the Vincettis host a birthday party for Elijah, wheeling him out in a tuxedo and acting almost as if he is conscious. Freya befriends Elijah's fiancée, Rosaline, and discovers that she is the heir to one of Halcyon's major rival corporations. A wedding will merge the two companies and grant Halcyon dominance in the global pharmaceutical industry. It has been said that comedies always end with weddings, tragedies with funerals. This story ends with both a bride and a body count. J.M. Donellan's dazzling North American debut novel mixes outlandish, eccentric storylines with cinematic zest.
Download or read book Venus and Adonis written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Killing Adonis written by J.M. Donellan and published by Pantera Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TRAGICOMIC TALE ABOUT LOVE, DELUSION, CORPORATE GREED AND THE HAZARDS OF USING A PINEAPPLE CUTTER WHILE HALLUCINATING LIGHT DUTIES, LARGE PAY, NO QUESTIONS ASKED... OR ANSWERED After seeing a curious flyer, Freya takes a job caring for Elijah, the comatose son of the eccentric Vincetti family. She soon discovers that the Vincetti's labrynthine mansion hides a wealth of secrets, their corporate rivals have a nasty habit of being extravagantly executed, and Elijah is not the saint they portray him to be. As well, Marilyn Monroe keeps showing up, unaware she's very much deceased. And there's something very strange about the story that Elijah's brother Jack is writing...
Download or read book Killing the god written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Shakespeare 1579 1631 written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Shakespeare 1579 1631 Poetry and prose With an introd by Professor Hales v 2 Drama written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Shakespeare written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The age of Shakespeare 1579 1631 by T Seccombe and J W Allen written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Shakespeare 1579 1631 Poetry and prose written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silvae of Statius written by Publius Papinius Statius and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the 1st century AD, Statius' Silvae praises or pays tribute to a number of individuals, most notably the emperor Domitiam whom Statius refers to as a living god.
Download or read book Mythology 101 written by Kathleen Sears and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fascinating myths of Greek and Roman civilizations! The tales of gods and heroes are often turned into tedious discourse that even Ovid would reject. This easy-to-read guide cuts out the boring details, and instead, provides you with a thrilling lesson in classic mythology. From the heights of Mt. Olympus to the depths of the Underworld, this book takes you on an unforgettable journey through all the major myths born in ancient Greece and Rome, such as Achilles's involvement in the Trojan War; Pluto's kidnapping of the beautiful Proserpina; and the slaying of Medusa by Perseus, the heroic demi-god. You'll also learn all about the wonders of the world as well as the greatest creatures ever recorded in history. Like Charon navigating the River of Wailing, Mythology 101 will guide you through the most glorious (and completely terrifying) tales the ancient world has to offer.
Download or read book Suicide in East German Literature written by Robert Blankenship and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GDR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies. Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR. Blankenship's underlying claim is that GDR literature ought to be read as literature, with literary methodology, not despite the country's politically and rhetorically charged nature, but precisely because of it. Suicide in East German Literature will be of interest to scholars of GDR literature, humanities-oriented scholars of suicide, and those who are interested in the complex relationship between literature and history. ROBERT BLANKENSHIP is Assistant Professor of German at California State University, Long Beach.
Download or read book The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World written by John Boardman and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authorative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Greek monarchies some five centuries later.
Download or read book Report of the Commission Appointed by His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere to Inquire Into and Report Upon the Losses Sustained by Farmers and Other Residents Upon the Eastern Frontier of the Colony During the Late War and Rebellion of 1877 8 written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Noble Death written by David Seeley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Paul, Jesus' death is vicarious. But in what way, precisely? The author critically reviews the various possibilities, offering evidence that in Paul's thought Jesus is understood as fulfilling a martyr's role rather than as a cultic sacrifice or as patterned after biblical models such as the Suffering Servant or the Isaac figure. The essential aspects of the concept of the Noble Death, found in the martyr stories of 2 and 4 Maccabees and in Graeco-Roman literature, are clearly discernible also in Paul's interpretation of the death of Jesus. Paul was very much a man of his time, and the concept was a natural one for him to use in relation to Jesus' death.
Download or read book An Introduction to Shakespeare s Poems written by Peter Hyland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the Sonnets; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare. Peter Hyland locates Shakespeare as a sceptical voice within the turbulent social context in which Elizabethan professional poets had to work, and relates his poems to the tastes, values and political pressures of his time. Hyland also explores how Shakespeare's poetry can be of interest to twenty-first century readers.
Download or read book Death of the God written by Stanley Martin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...A "fun" re-construction of the aDonis myth, and tales of "Death..".. Stanley uses his skills in myth/poetry to makes this an enjoyable encounter! The rhythms of his duB-poetry are richly observed and visible.... ....post-Impressionist!
