Download or read book Koschei written by A. A. Farr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Evil has hidden itself for a thousand years and now a taste of it surfaces..." The first book of the Koschei Trilogy tells the story of a thirteen year old boy, Alex Campbell, who lives in a world full of fantasies and myths. When he discovers hidden powers, Alex is then left with two options whether to use them for good, or for evil. Now, it is up to him, along with his three best friends, Leon, Amanda, and Kasen, to choose a path to follow. Little do they know, everything that occurs is predestined, and the world they seemingly try to save may just be an illusion, set up for greater ruin by something or someone even more powerful.
Download or read book Koschei s Arrow written by Justin L. Smith and published by Justin L. Smith. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland. 1944. Colonel Rhys Petrov of the Red Army has liberated a Concentration Camp. But he and his soldiers are under mysterious orders to keep all of the Camp's staff alive. While he awaits lifeline from a trustworthy friend in Moscow to give him insight into his peculiar orders, Rhys continues his interrogation of SS Captain, Frederick Wagner. Will Rhys receive the news before it is too late? What more could possibly learn from Wagner, that his previous hours of interrogation did not reveal? Will Rhys follow his orders or his heart?
Download or read book Maria Morevna and Koschei the Wizard Illustrated written by Alexander Afanasyev and published by The Planet. This book was released on 2012-01-29 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famous Russian fairy tale about the evil wizard Koschei, beautiful Maria Morevna, and brave tsarevich Alexis. The illustrations included in this edition were created in the early 20th century by the renowned Russian illustrator and stage designer Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin.
Download or read book Deathless written by Catherynne M. Valente and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious retelling of the Russian folktale Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless from Catherynne M. Valente, set in a mysterious version of St. Petersburg during the first half of the 20th century Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the twentieth century. Deathless, however, is no dry, historical tome: it lights up like fire as the young Marya Morevna transforms from a clever child of the revolution, to Koschei's beautiful bride, to his eventual undoing. Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power. All told, Deathless is a collision of magical history and actual history, of revolution and mythology, of love and death, which will bring Russian myth back to life in a stunning new incarnation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Koschei written by A. A. Farr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race against evil has now begun and the warriors have been summoned. Three years have past but the adventure continues as the young Druid named Alex, and his best friends, Leon, Amanda, Kasen and Serge begin their intensive training to vanquish the evil Lich King, Koschei. When their Doctor falls into a severe illness, it is up to them to discover a cure. Unfortunately for them, the cure lies somewhere far beyond their own World and an unlikely predicament follows a series of unfortunate events.
Download or read book A Court of Silver Flames written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other. Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts. Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms.
Download or read book A Court of Wings and Ruin written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!
Download or read book Koshchei the Deathless written by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mignola returns to Hell and to the bizarre folklore that's filled some of his greatest books, reuniting with one of his favorite collaborators, Ben Stenbeck (Frankenstein Underground, Witchfinder: In The Service of Angels, Baltimore). This volumes collects the complete six-issue series plus bonus material. Sent to kill Hellboy by the Baba Yaga in Darkness Calls, Koshchei the Deathless hinted at a long and tragic life before being enslaved to the Russian witch. Now Koshchei relives every horrible act on his road to immortality and beyond, with none other than his one time enemy Hellboy himself--in a bar in Hell.
Download or read book The Russian Story Book written by Richard Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen tales including several featuring the hero Ilya; one featuring the villainous Whirlwind the Whistler; and others with Vasily the Turbulent, Nikita the Footless, and Peerless Beauty, the Cake-Baker.
Download or read book The Folklore of Fairy tale written by Macleod Yearsley and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tiger s Wife written by Téa Obreht and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly Look for Téa Obreht’s second novel, Inland, now available. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times • Entertainment Weekly • The Christian Science Monitor • The Kansas City Star • Library Journal Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation. In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Economist • Vogue • Slate • Chicago Tribune • The Seattle Times • Dayton Daily News • Publishers Weekly • Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered “Stunning . . . a richly textured and searing novel.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “[Obreht] has a talent for subtle plotting that eludes most writers twice her age, and her descriptive powers suggest a kind of channeled genius. . . . No novel [this year] has been more satisfying.”—The Wall Street Journal “Filled with astonishing immediacy and presence, fleshed out with detail that seems firsthand, The Tiger’s Wife is all the more remarkable for being the product not of observation but of imagination.”—The New York Times Book Review “That The Tiger’s Wife never slips entirely into magical realism is part of its magic. . . . Its graceful commingling of contemporary realism and village legend seems even more absorbing.”—The Washington Post
Download or read book Lilith s Castle written by Gill Alderman and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to The Memory Palace, fantasy crosses over to the real world as the Malthassan Archmage Koschei Corbillion becomes Guy Parados, his creator. When the magician Koschei escaped through the mind of his creator Guy Parados into the world where he is fiction, he became Guy Parados, and Parados became the Red Horse in the land of Malthassa...his own invention, he believed. But Malthassa has deeper roots, and it is there the Red Horse must go.
Download or read book Fairy Tale Architecture written by Andrew Bernheimer and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in breathtaking designs. Little Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Snow Queen: these and more than fifteen other stories designed by Bernheimer Architecture, Snøhetta, Rural Studio, LEVENBETTS, and LTL Architects and many other international vanguards have created stunning works for this groundbreaking collection of architectural fairy tales. Story by story, Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer--a brother and sister team as in an old fairy tale--have built the ultimate home for lovers of fiction and design. Snow girls and spinning houses. Paper capes and engineered hair braids. Resin bee hives and infinite libraries. Here are futuristic structures made from traditional stories, inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen and The Little Match Girl to the Brothers Grimm's Rapunzel and The Juniper Tree to fairy tales by Jorge Luis Borges and Joy Williams and from China, Japan, Russia, Nigeria, and Mexico. A desire for story and shelter counts as among our most ancient instincts, and this dual desire continues to inspire our most imaginative architects and authors today. Fairy Tale Architecture invites the reader into a space of wonder, into a new form that will endure ever after.
Download or read book Baba Yaga written by Andreas Johns and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baba Yaga is a well-known witch from the folklore tradition of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. A fascinating and colorful character, she resembles witches of other traditions but is in many ways unique. Living in the forest in a hut that stands and moves on chicken legs, she travels in a mortar with a pestle and sweeps away her tracks with a broom. In some tales she tries to harm the protagonist, while in others she is helpful. This book investigates the image and ambiguity of Baba Yaga in detail and considers the meanings she has for East Slavic culture. Providing a broad survey of folktales and other sources, it is the most thorough study of Baba Yaga yet published and will be of interest to students of anthropology, comparative literature, folklore, and Slavic and East European studies.
Download or read book Forests of the Vampire written by Charles Phillips and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the cultural information that never seems to make it into history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests, magic symbols. This series captures, culture by culture, the intersection of imagination, history, wisdom, dream, and reality.
Download or read book Koshchei the Deathless 1 written by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellboy's immortal foe! Sent to kill Hellboy by the Baba Yaga in Darkness Calls, Koshchei the Deathless hinted at a long and tragic life before being enslaved to the Russian witch. Now Koshchei relives every horrible act on his road to immortality and beyond, with none other than Hellboy himselfÑin Hell. Mignola returns to Hell and to the bizarre folklore that's filled some of his greatest books, reuniting with one of his favorite collaborators, Ben Stenbeck (Frankenstein Underground, Witchfinder: In The Service of Angels, Baltimore).
