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Download or read book Swelter written by D. Jackson Leigh and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her affair with a married senator makes prime time news, congressional aide Teal Giovanni is fleeing her shattered life. Betrayed by the lover who was her partner in a successful law practice, August Reese is waiting at a small cattle ranch to testify against a drug kingpin. Attraction sparks when Teal’s aging Honda blows its engine and she and August meet on a steamy Texas blacktop. But as the spark bursts into flame, their worst nightmare comes calling. Will they survive or swelter as the heat becomes unbearable?
Book Synopsis Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake by : Alice Mills
Download or read book Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake written by Alice Mills and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mervyn Peake has been acclaimed as an author of fantasy and as an illustrator, but as yet has received little attention from literary critics. This book is the first to analyse all of Peake's works of fiction, including his two picture story books and novella as well as the Gormenghast series and Mr Pye. Alice Mills pinpoints the fictional quirks that render Mervyn Peake such a memorable fantasy writer, examining his literary works from Jungian, Freudian, Kristevan and post-Jungian perspectives. Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake will be of interest to fantasy lovers and students of fantasy as a genre, as well as those exploring the psychoanalysis of literary texts.
Book Synopsis The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by : Mervyn Peake
Download or read book The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy written by Mervyn Peake and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young heir matures within a bleak, sprawling castle filled with intrigue in this epic gothic trilogy, featuring over 100 illustrations by the author. Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels—Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone—Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. This special edition, published for the centenary of Mervyn Peake’s birth, is accompanied by over one hundred of Peake's dazzling drawings. Praise for Mervyn Peake and the Gormenghast Trilogy “[Peake’s books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.” —C. S. Lewis “Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work . . . A classic of our age.” —Robertson Davies “[A] magnificent ediface spun from thin air by a tortured genius.” —Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture “This extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time.” —Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Gormenghast written by Mervyn Peake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence. John Constable famously 'pulled off the impossible' (The Times) with his stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake's legendary Gormenghast trilogy. Commissioned and produced by the David Glass Ensemble, this gruesome, gothic drama has since become a landmark in the history of adaptation for the stage.
Download or read book Titus Groan written by Mervyn Peake and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the classic gothic trilogy. “A masterpiece . . . a moody, melancholy comedy with an underlying wit and profundity that cannot be denied.” —Speculiction The basis for the 2000 BBC series Now in development by Showtime As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power. Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake’s extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. Praise the Gormenghast Trilogy “Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work.” —Robertson Davies, New York Times-bestselling author “A sumptuous, poetic epic . . . considered by some to have an equal or even greater degree of importance to the development of modern fantasy as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” —SFF180 “Mervyn Peake’s gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle . . . This true classic is a feast of words unlike anything else in the world of fantasy. Those who explore Gormenghast castle will be richly rewarded.” —SFF Book Reviews
Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : James Augustus Henry Murray
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Decade of the Brain: Poems by : Janine Joseph
Download or read book Decade of the Brain: Poems written by Janine Joseph and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident. The collection is an odyssey of what it means to recover—physically and mentally—in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury, charting when “before” crosses into “after.” Through connected poems, buckling and expansive syntax, ekphrasis, and conjoined poetic forms, Decade of the Brain remembers and misremembers hospital visits, violence and bodily injury, intimate memories, immigration status, family members, and the self. After the accident I turned out all of the lights in the room while I watched, concussed, from the mirror. I edged like a fever with nothing on the tip of my tongue.
Book Synopsis Fairy Tales of London by : Hadas Elber-Aviram
Download or read book Fairy Tales of London written by Hadas Elber-Aviram and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.
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Book Synopsis Honesty Wart: Witch Hunter! by : Alan MacDonald
Download or read book Honesty Wart: Witch Hunter! written by Alan MacDonald and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life for Honesty and his sisters Mercy and Patience is not a bundle of laughs. His family are strict Puritans and singing, dancing and anything that sounds like fun is forbidden. Life, Honesty thinks, can't get much worse when Christmas is cancelled by order of the government. But he is wrong - the real problem is Gran who has one tooth, a hooked nose, a very hairy chin and a pet toad called Merlin. Honesty suspects she may be a witch, especially since she's been helping the neighbours with love potions and cures for sick pigs. When the WitchFinder General - Ezekial Bones visits the village, Honesty is convinced his family's terrible secret will be discovered. Can he save Gran from the terrible Three Tests for Witches (eg pond ducking - if she swims she's a witch, if she drowns she's innocent.) For a boy who has never told a lie in his whole life - it's asking a lot.
Book Synopsis The Glory and The Game by : Jim Bauckham
Download or read book The Glory and The Game written by Jim Bauckham and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems baseball and murder keep intersecting in the professional lives of NYPD Detective Gordon Hodges and his partner, Carl Furillo. Last time around, it was Boston Red Sox star centerfielder Willie Starmaker. This time, it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rookie sensation, Colt Alexander, a case that’s keeping the detectives up at night. People close to young Alexander’s seemingly heroic military past keep turning up dead, murdered in grisly and torturous ways. The chase to find the killer before he completes his grisly vendetta will take Hodges, Furillo, and other allies on a chase from the East Coast to the West Coast, and into the depths of depravity. The question is not only can they catch the murderer, but can they catch him in time? Meanwhile, the bodies keep piling up …
Download or read book You Can Die written by Rebecca Zanetti and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luther meets Justified combined with Profiler in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti's exciting Laurel Snow Romantic Thriller series, set in the Pacific Northwest, featuring FBI Special Agent and rising star profiler Laurel Snow. For readers who love their thrillers centered around dysfunctional families, and their protagonists threatened by a serial killer. Men are dying in the Pacific Northwest, their bodies found near churches, charities, and counselling centers—each with valentine candy hearts shoved down their throats. They’re good men with families and community ties—or so they seem until Laurel Snow and her team begin to investigate. Then the case takes a shockingly personal turn when the father she’s never met, a former pastor, is attacked in exactly the same way. Now, besides solving the case, Laurel is on the hunt to discover where her father has been. Complicating things is Laurel’s troubled half-sister, Abigail, a brilliant sociopath determined to prove that they’ve both inherited their father’s malignant narcissism. Assisting Laurel is Washington Fish and Wildlife Captain Huck Rivers, a dangerous loner whose reliance on gut instinct puts him at odds with Laurel’s coolly analytic approach. But the choice may be moot when the killer hones in on Huck’s own dark secrets—putting him and Laurel squarely in the crosshairs. Praise for the debut Laurel Snow Thriller “Slow-burn romance and adrenaline-fueled thrills. . . . Both awkward Laurel and dogged Huck are refreshing departures from typical leads. . . . Readers will delight in this smart take on a classic trope.” –Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) “A strong start to a new series promises more mystery and romance for an up-and-coming FBI profiler.” --Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW
Author :Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :642 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art by : Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
Download or read book Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art written by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.
Book Synopsis The Voice of the Heart by : G. Peter Winnington
Download or read book The Voice of the Heart written by G. Peter Winnington and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profoundly creative works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for decades. His Gormenghast sequence of novels, recently serialized to great acclaim by the BBC, stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. In The Voice of the Heart, G. Peter Winnington, the world’s foremost expert on Peake, explores his subject’s well-known fiction alongside the poetry, plays, and illustrations for which Peake is equally lauded. He traces recurrent motifs through Peake’s works and examines in detail his long-neglected play, The Wit to Woo. Through close readings of all these elements of Peake’s oeuvre, Winnington ultimately offers unparalleled insight into one of British literature’s most vibrant imaginations.
Author :Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :742 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art by : Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
Download or read book Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art written by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.
Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by :
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English dictionary by : J.T. Molesworth
Download or read book A compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English dictionary written by J.T. Molesworth and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
