Download or read book The Three Sirens written by Irving Wallace and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1964 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Three Sirens written by Irving Wallace and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a varied group of men and women, married and unmarried, from our own complex culture is thrown together for six dramatic weeks with the people of a simpler, happier society, free from the inhibitions and tensions of the twentieth century? Irving Wallace’s provocative novel is the story of this confrontation, as an American field team of anthropologists and laymen descends upon a remote Polynesian island to study a unique and hitherto undiscovered way of life. The visiting Americans are supposed to be dispassionate observers. Yet each brings to the island his own problems, attitudes, and prejudices. The team consists of nine oddly assorted Americans, led by Dr. Maud Hayden, the world-famous woman who is America’s leading anthropologist. With her are her son and his young wife Claire; a liberal-minded photographer, anxious to remove his sixteen-year-old daughter from her fast adolescent crowd; a warm, homely nurse whose only attraction is her unique ability to give love; a fussy bachelor attempting to flee from a dominating mother; a female psychoanalyst whose private problems rival those of her patients; and the wealthy wife of the team’s sponsor, a one-time dancer oppressed with the knowledge that she is now middle-aged. On The Three Sirens, these visitors are brought face to face with uninhibited behavior and customs that seem to be a shocking assault, a challenge, to their most cherished beliefs about love, sex, marriage, child rearing and justice. In this Polynesian village they find a society where the monotony of marriage is relieved by the freedom to enjoy other mates one week of the year; where the dissatisfactions and repressions of men and women, both married and unmarried, are relieved in a mysterious Social Aid Hut; where women over forty can enjoy life without the destructive feeling that youth is the only happiness; where unattractive girls are desired for those attributes that are ignored in our own cult of beauty; where confused adolescents are given the security of learning firsthand the facts of life; where grown men do not have to prove their virility by means of their careers.... Irving Wallace’s powerful novel tells the story of the shattering impact that this seemingly Utopian way of life has on the Americans who have come to study the people of The Three Sirens and who suddenly find themselves instead studying the nature of their own desires, fears and passions. Their reactions are the theme of a dramatic and brilliant work of fiction that ruthlessly explores the inmost nature of modern man and his society. Totally engrossing in its outspoken portrayal of an exotic culture, thoughtful in its examination of contemporary American morality, above all swiftly paced and exciting in its storytelling, The Three Sirens is Irving Wallace’s most ambitious and satisfying work of fiction to date.

Download or read book The Three Sirens written by Irving Wallace and published by Signet. This book was released on 1964-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Secret of the Sirens written by Julia Golding and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2007 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in the UK by Oxford University Press, 2006."

Download or read book Music of the Sirens written by Linda Austern and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.

Download or read book Three Sirens written by Wallace Irving (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sirens of Titan written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sirens written by Joseph Knox and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting thriller about a damaged undercover detective navigating a web of politicians, drug lords, missing persons, and his own flawed department, perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane. Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle Rossiter, a runaway politician’s daughter, from Zain’s influence? Impossible. That’s why Aidan Waits is the perfect man for the job. Disgraced, emotionally damaged, and despised by his superiors. In other words, completely expendable. But Aidan is a born survivor. And as he works his way deep into Zain’s shadowy world, he finds that nothing is as it seems. Zain is a mesmerizing, Gatsby-esque figure who lures young women into his orbit—women who have a bad habit of turning up dead. But is Zain really responsible? And will Isabelle be next? Before long, Aidan finds himself in over his head, cut loose by his superiors, and dangerously attracted to the wrong woman. How can he save the girl if he can’t even save himself?

Download or read book The Sirens Sang of Murder written by Sarah Caudwell and published by Dell. This book was released on 1990-09-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer’s lucrative case has deadly consequences in the third installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered “Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers.”—A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case that’s worth a fortune—if Cantrip’s tax-planning cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles. Something is going bump in the night—and bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon Cantrip is messaging the gang at the home office for help. And it’s up to amateur investigator Hilary Tamar, Oxford don turned supersleuth, to get Cantrip back to the safety of his chambers—alive! Don’t miss any of Sarah Caudwell’s riveting Hilary Tamar mysteries: THUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED • THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES • THE SIRENS SANG OF MURDER • THE SIBYL IN HER GRAVE

Download or read book Siren Sisters written by Dana Langer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lolly Salt's three sisters are sirens--young women who lure ships to their doom--and as Lolly's 13th birthday approaches she's about to become one too. But when it becomes clear that someone in town knows the Salt girls secret, Lolly sets out to learn how this happened to her family and if she can prevent it"--

Download or read book The Siren Depths written by Martha Wells and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All his life, Moon roamed the Three Worlds, a solitary wanderer forced to hide his true nature — until he was reunited with his own kind, the Raksura, and found a new life as consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. But now a rival court has laid claim to him, and Jade may or may not be willing to fight for him. Beset by doubts, Moon must travel in the company of strangers to a distant realm where he will finally face the forgotten secrets of his past, even as an old enemy returns with a vengeance. The Fell, a vicious race of shape-shifting predators, menaces groundlings and Raksura alike. Determined to crossbreed with the Raksura for arcane purposes, they are driven by an ancient voice that cries out from . . . .The siren depths.

Download or read book The Sirens of Mars written by Sarah Stewart Johnson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Times (UK) • Library Journal “Lovely . . . Johnson’s prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multihued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars.”—Anthony Doerr, The New York Times Book Review Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum—on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find, one that would inspire humankind as much as any discovery in the history of modern science. In this beautifully observed, deeply personal book, Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life, transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its own. Johnson’s fascination with Mars began as a child in Kentucky, turning over rocks with her father and looking at planets in the night sky. She now conducts fieldwork in some of Earth’s most hostile environments, such as the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the salt flats of Western Australia, developing methods for detecting life on other worlds. Here, with poetic precision, she interlaces her own personal journey—as a female scientist and a mother—with tales of other seekers, from Percival Lowell, who was convinced that a utopian society existed on Mars, to Audouin Dollfus, who tried to carry out astronomical observations from a stratospheric balloon. In the process, she shows how the story of Mars is also a story about Earth: This other world has been our mirror, our foil, a telltale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings. Empathetic and evocative, The Sirens of Mars offers an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot, while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos.

Download or read book Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity written by Jonas Grethlein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

Download or read book The Seventh Secret written by Irving Wallace and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Ashcroft and her father, Sir Harrison Ashcroft, have set out to write a definitive biography of Adolph Hitler. Before they can finalize their manuscript, however, a cryptic letter from a German dentist sends Sir Harrison off to attempt the excavation of the site of the Führerbunker, where Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, lived out the final weeks of their life before committing suicide and being cremated in a shallow pit. The thing is – maybe they didn't. Unfortunately, before the excavation can begin, Ashcroft is run down in a hit-and-run that would seem accidental – except the driver backed up and ran him over a second time. Armed only with the dentist's letter, her notes, and the determination to finish her father's book, Emily Ashcroft makes her own journey to Berlin. She is joined by a Russian museum curator, an American architect writing a book on Nazi and Third Reich architecture, and a Mossad agent, posing as a reporter. Together they uncover what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated – the faked death of the Father of the Third Reich, and the plan to bring the Nazi party back to power. Through harrowing adventures, steamy romance, impersonators, SS guards, and survivors they piece together the missing puzzle pieces of what really happened so long ago. The only question is – are they up to the challenge, and, as they begin to close in, can they survive it?

Download or read book Siren written by Emory Gayle and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love isn't the only power that is consuming...Three people. Three pathways. Only love can save them all...Ana has awoken in Cora's body, bound and determined to destroy all that Cora holds most dear. First to go...Darrien. But, something throws a wrench into her plans. Something more dangerous than any foe she has ever faced. Will it be Ana's undoing...or her savior?Cora wakes in Ana's body deep in the ocean and in the company of two, now, ex-Sirens. The trio become fast friends as their path to see Cora's father leads them on a journey that is both full of love and danger. When their quest turns deadly, Cora is forced to use a power that she still doesn't fully understand. Will Cora's power, and the love for her friends, be enough to stand against one of the most powerful beings on earth? Or will Cora be consumed by a power she can't control?Darrien's heart is breaking as he watches Cora seek the attention of another at camp. But, when a couple of unexpected guests show up, Darrien is given distraction and hope in the most unlikely of ways. In the end, will Darrien see through Ana's charade and mend his broken heart? And if so, will he be able to find Cora before the allies of Oceanus do?Things will never be the same as great powers, mythological creatures, and love like no other are awakened in this stunning next installment of the Water Series!

Download or read book The Adventures of Ulysses written by Bernard Evslin and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The occasion of forty years of teaching at Amherst by William H. Pritchard, the renowned critic of Frost, Jarrell, and many others, has generated a remarkable collection of essays by former students, colleagues, and friends.The essays themselves are a spectrum of contemporary, criticism, ranging from classroom memoirs to analytic essay-in-criticism to assessment of the state of academic letters today. These contributions, a tribute, by reason of their very range, are a salute to the breadth of William Pritchard's circle of literary acquaintance. Under Criticism demonstrates the fine persistence in certain manners of approach and habits of focus that go, among that circle, lander the name of criticism.Drawing foremost on their engagement with the literature before them, Christopher Ricks, Helen Vendler, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Neil Hertz, David Ferry, Paul Alpers, Joseph Epstein, and Frank Lentricchia -- as well as fifteen other critics and men and women of letters -- reinforce Professor Pritchard's prescription that in order to have a hearing, the critic needs to keep listening.

Download or read book My Little Pony FIENDship is Magic 3 Sirens written by Ted Anderson and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sirens from Rainbow Rocks Equestria origin revealed!