Download or read book Rubies of the Viper written by Martha Marks and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Viper Amulet written by Martha Marks and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to RUBIES OF THE VIPER... A.D. 56 - Disgraced and impoverished, Theodosia Varro flees Italy with the man she loves. As Emperor Nero's agents give chase, they escape to a place that should offer safety and peace, only to find an unexpected foe waiting. Conflicts mount as Theodosia battles known and unknown enemies who put her life and family at risk. Ultimately, she ventures into a foreign land whose culture she does not understand-and into a brutal war zone-to salvage what remains of her dreams.
Download or read book Red Chamber written by Derrick R Lafayette and published by Derrick R. Lafayette. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of humanity resides on Saturn’s rings known as Lustrous Utopia I, ruled by the diplomatic High Priestess. The top quadrant of the planet is reserved for prisons, where Titan reigns as the most dangerous of all. After being betrayed by his partner Darius, Lex finds himself sentenced to life on Titan for a crime he didn’t commit. His family life destroyed, never to see his wife or his daughter Halo again. Once you enter the Red Chamber...you will never escape.
Download or read book Viper Wine written by Hermione Eyre and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Using an alchemy all of her own, Eyre’s postmodern take on the 17th century renders it dazzlingly fresh and contemporary.” —Guardian (UK) Venetia Stanley was the great beauty of her day, so dazzling she inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting. But now she is married, the adoration to which she has become accustomed has curdled to scrutiny, and she fears her powers are waning. Her devoted husband, Sir Kenelm Digby—explorer, diplomat, philosopher, alchemist— refuses to prepare a beauty tonic for her, insisting on her continued perfection. Venetia, growing desperate, secretly engages an apothecary to sell her “viper wine”—a strange potion said to bolster the blood and invigorate the skin. The results are instant, glorious, and addictive, and soon the ladies of the court of Charles I are looking unnaturally youthful. But there is a terrible price to be paid, as science clashes with magic, puritans rebel against the decadent monarchy, and England slides into civil war. Based on real events and written with anachronistic verve, Viper Wine is an intoxicating brew of love, longing and vanity, where the 17th and 21st centuries mix and mingle in the most enchanting and mind-bending ways.
Download or read book Midnight written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Koontz, the bestselling master of suspense, invites you into the shocking world of Moonlight Cove—where four unlikely survivors confront the darkest realms of human nature. The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified—if not brutally murdered in the dead of night...
Download or read book Legionary Viper of the North Legionary 2 written by Gordon Doherty and published by www.gordondoherty.co.uk. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Danubian frontier is weaker than ever, and a storm is gathering in the north . . . Deep winter, 376 AD: Emperor Valens has withdrawn the field armies from Moesia and Thracia to fight in the Persian War. The impoverished limitanei legions left behind to defend the banks of the River Danubius are now all that stand between the war-hungry Goths and heart of the Eastern Roman Empire. For Numerius Vitellius Pavo and the men of the XI Claudia, the brief from Emperor Valens is simple: to avoid war with the Goths at all costs while the Roman defences are so weak. But in the frozen lands north of the Danubius a dark legend, thought long dead, has risen again. The name is on the lips of every warrior in Gutthiuda; the one who will unite the tribes, the one whose armies will march upon the empire, the one who will bathe in Roman blood . . . The Viper!
Download or read book The Bloodline Chronicles written by Joe H. Sherman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorram and Taurwin are the only ones of their bloodlines the mage Krotus brought to his plane of existence. After their magical modifications and enhancements, they are lost in a medieval world where there are dangers all around them. Their young age and innocence sometimes create humorous situations and encounters. However, their cruel and violent creation and upbringing causes them to be brutal and violent when the need arises. This allows them to inadvertently fulfill the purpose in which they were created as they mature.
Download or read book The Concepts of Criticism written by L. Aschenbrenner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tbis inquiry may be thought of as a sequel to The Concepts of Value and as an extension of the brief core-vocabulary of aesthetic concepts found in one of the appendices to it. In terms of sheer numbers, most of the value concepts of our language are to be found in the area of human relations and of the aesthetic. There are also other value vocabularies, shorter but equally important, for example, the cognitive and logical. These and other objects of pbilosopbical study (for example, the question of "other minds") deserve the kind of empirical survey that has been made of moral and aesthetic notions, if only to test a priori approaches to them. In the present studyan even more determined empirical approach than that adopted for the first has been found necessary. Once the moral or human value vocabulary has been identified, sentential contexts for the use of the terms readily come to mind. In a study of the language of criticism, however, the vocabulary has first to be sought in the utterances of critics themselves and quoted in sufficient context to make their critical intentions clear. The outcome is that the present study is of great length, about half of it being quotations from critics. The rule adopted for arriving at tbis length go on collecting quotations as long as new types of appraisal came was to to light.
Download or read book A Two Colored Brocade written by Annemarie Schimmel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world. According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. Instead it is rooted in conventions and rules of prosody, rhymes, and verbal instrumentation. Ideally, every verse should be like a precious stone--perfectly formed and multifaceted--and convey the dynamic relationship between everyday reality and the transcendental. Persian poetry, Schimmel explains, is more similar to medieval European verse than Western poetry as it has been written since the Romantic period. The characteristic verse form is the ghazal--a set of rhyming couplets--which serves as a vehicle for shrouding in conventional tropes the poet's real intentions. Because Persian poetry is neither narrative nor dramatic in its overall form, its strength lies in an "architectonic" design; each precisely expressed image is carefully fitted into a pattern of linked figures of speech. Schimmel shows that at its heart Persian poetry transforms the world into a web of symbols embedded in Islamic culture.
Download or read book Dictionarium Polygraphicum Or the Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested written by and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionarium Polygraphicum written by John Barrow (teacher of mathematics.) and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Viper s Heart written by Amanda Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Collection of Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Midnight Queen written by May Agnes Fleming and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brilliant Bodies written by Timothy McCall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and interprets the Renaissance glitterati—gorgeously dressed and adorned men—to reveal how charismatic bodies, in the palazzo and the piazza, seduced audiences and materialized power. Fifteenth-century Italian courts put men on display. Here, men were peacocks, attracting attention with scintillating brocades, shining armor, sparkling jewels, and glistening swords, spurs, and sequins. McCall’s investigation of these spectacular masculinities challenges widely held assumptions about appropriate male display and adornment. Interpreting surviving objects, visual representations in a wide range of media, and a diverse array of primary textual sources, McCall argues that Renaissance masculine dress was a political phenomenon that fashioned power and patriarchal authority. Brilliant Bodies describes and recontextualizes the technical construction and cultural meanings of attire, casts a critical eye toward the complex and entangled relations between bodies and clothing, and explores the negotiations among makers, wearers, and materials. This groundbreaking study of masculinity makes an important intervention in the history of male ornamentation and fashion by examining a period when the public display of splendid men not only supported but also constituted authority. It will appeal to specialists in art history and fashion history as well as scholars working at the intersections of gender and politics in quattrocento Italy.
Download or read book Light Goddess written by Cloris Athena and published by Outskirts Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magic world in the Flower Goddess Fairyland. Snow and ice, flower sea and the pixie forest. Path of art and magic, the wonderland and the great journey...... On the border of the Dark Land and the Light World, there is a great war burning grandly. A handsome boy in silver armor, with a long spear in hands, he was fighting hundreds of the dark knights. On the far side of the battlefield, the Moon Goddess Diana is fighting hundreds of ice dragons and fire dragons. The mighty forces of light are fighting fiercely against the mighty forces of darkness. Millions of evil demons and enormous dragons, against millions of the brave knights and great fairies...... In the brilliant nebula sea, there is a huge Souls Tree blooming gorgeously in the Flower Goddess Fairyland, on this holy Souls Tree, every bud of soul will split in two light pixies and fly to different worlds, fall in different bodies, then growing and shining. They always have the same beginning, but eventually get in the different paths...... Long long time ago, in the Phoenix Nebula, there was a blue white star bursting into pure gorgeous light, “Even if let me live in the brilliant Mermaid Sea all my life, and eat thousands of the dazzling moon jellyfishes every day until choke me to death, I still must be a great musician of the whole fairy world! And in the world of countless evil demons, fire dragons and ice griffins, I will fight them bravely with the Lyre of Apollo, the Sword of Athena, and the Spear of the Valkyries!” Once Ori lived in a tragic world of ice dragons and fire dragons, he wanted to be a great musician when he was very little, but he was tortured by his fire demon father and ice griffin mother in the Dark Sunflower Sea Pixies Castle. At six years old, he got in the Diana College of the Moon Goddess Magic, but always bullied by his iceberg demon wolf classmates and evil siren teachers. When he nearly died in the flying snow pixies, he was just saved by the Light Goddess Florithena, she taking the child’s hand, then flying to a new gorgeous world of shining pixies, beautiful peris and flower fairies. Forget everything you ever knew, just don’t be surprised at everything you will see, everything of everything......
Download or read book Collier s written by Hansi and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
