Download or read book The Chinese Knight Errant written by JAMES J.Y. LIU and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1967, is a comprehensive study of knight-errantry in Chinese history and literature from the fourth century BC to the twentieth century. It discusses the social and intellectual backgrounds of knight-errantry, historical knights and the development of the theme in poetry, fiction and drama.
Download or read book Dragon Age Knight Errant written by Nunzio DeFilippis and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaea, an elven squire, and her knight, the drunken Ser Aaron Hawthorne, arrive in Kirkwall just in time for Varric Tethras' appointment as Viscount. A talented thief, Vaea skips the party to take on an easy job recovering a hidden lock box... but when she chooses to change the terms of the deal mid-heist, she is entangled in a dangerous mission that is surely above her pay grade.
Download or read book Star Wars written by John Jackson Miller and published by Graphic Novels. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly knighted Jedi on her first mission, eighteen-year-old Kerra Holt has joined a band of Jedi volunteers traveling deep behind enemy lines.
Download or read book The Sword Or the Needle written by Roland Altenburger and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.
Download or read book The Knights Errant of Anarchy written by Pietro Di Paola and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Knights Errant of Anarchy, Pietro Di Paola tells the fascinating story of the transnational diaspora of anarchist exiles and refugees in London from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. His unique approach combines a thorough understanding of political organisations, international revolutionary networks, and ideologies with intimate details of militants' everyday activities (much of it chronicled in the annals of police surveillance). This rigorous and detailed study provides a window into the world of previously unknown and anonymous revolutionaries.
Download or read book Errant written by Emily Dabb and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Errant: A Legend of the Gallant Knight By: Emily Dabb A broken relationship, exile, a quest, a mysterious enemy, this medieval adventure fantasy follows the Knight as he battles suspicion, enemy armies, and his own heart on his quest for purpose and peace. Driven from his home by his brother’s distrust, the Knight rides to aid the determined Rose break the power of a pitiless warlord and bind up a wounded land. Under the shadow of an old evil raising in the south, the Knight leads his troop of loyal comrades through battle, loss, victory, and uncertainty. Will he ever see his home again? Can his relationship with his brother be renewed? In the vein of Tolkien meets King Arthur, friendship, faith, trust, and loyalty stand like pillars, setting a firm foundation for this adventure geared toward YA and Adult audiences.
Download or read book Knights of Bretonnia written by Anthony Reynolds and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting release from the Warhammer Chronicles imprint. Bretonnia is a land shrouded in myth and magic, under siege from the strange creatures of its shadowy forests and those fallen to the lure of the Dark Gods. Against these fearsome foes stand the Knights of Bretonnia, calling upon their faith in the Lady and their guile with the sword to repel their legions of enemies. When young noble Calard starts upon the path to knighthood, he soon discovers the darkness hidden within his homeland and the price that must be paid by those seeking the holiest of honours – the title of Grail Knight. Accompanied by his faithful manservant Chlod, he must face vampires, wyverns, Chaos warriors and goblins, but each battle brings him one step closer to becoming the legend he seeks. Knights of Bretonnia collects the novels Knight Errant and Knight of the Realm, plus the novellas Questing Knight and Grail Knight, completing the saga of Calard from his knightly training to his most epic of victories.
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Download or read book The Knights Errant of Anarchy written by Pietro Di Paola and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the structure, dynamics, sociology and interrelations that characterised the community of Italian anarchist exiles in London.
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Download or read book The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight errant Don Quixote of the Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1652 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Garro written by James Swallow and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle-Captain. Knight Errant. Agentia Primus. Hero. Nathaniel Garro's journey through the Horus Heresy has been long and hard - this is his story. From out of the shadows of the Silent War, a new hero emerges. Clad all in grey, an errant warrior of the Legiones Astartes kneels before the Regent of Terra and accepts a solemn new duty – Battle-Captain Garro, once commander of the Eisenstein, is now Agentia Primus of Malcador the Sigillite. From the desolation of Isstvan to the halls of the Imperial Palace itself, Garro stands as a paragon of loyalty and protector of the innocent, ever ready to strike back at the traitorous allies of the Warmaster. But he is walking a dangerous path of his own, one that may lead him to question his place in the Imperium... and what if he, too, should falter?
Download or read book The Chinese Knight Errant written by James J.Y. Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1967, is a comprehensive study of knight-errantry in Chinese history and literature from the fourth century BC to the twentieth century. After discussing the social and intellectual backgrounds of knight-errantry, it gives examples of historical knights and describes the development of the theme of knight-errantry in poetry, fiction and drama. Many biographies, anecdotes, poems and tales are translated in full, while long prose romances and dramatic works are summarized and discussed. As background to these, sketches of the developments of Chinese fiction and drama are provided. In a final chapter, comparisons are made between Chinese and European knights, and between Chinese and Western chivalric literature.
Download or read book The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated Into English by Thomas Shelton and Now Printed Verbatim from the 4to Edition of 1620 With a Curious Set of Cuts from the French of Coypel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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