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Download or read book Chimera written by John Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In CHIMERAJohn Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,” Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths’ relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, "There’s every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius.”
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Book Synopsis The Chimera Principle by : Carlo Severi
Download or read book The Chimera Principle written by Carlo Severi and published by Hau. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using philosophical and ethnographic theory, presents new approaches to ritual and memory, relating them to visual and sound images as acts of communication.
Book Synopsis The Great Chimera by : M. Karagatsēs
Download or read book The Great Chimera written by M. Karagatsēs and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eager to flee the parochialism of her French upbringing, and a painful family past, the young and beautiful Marina falls in love with a seductive Greek sea-captain she meets at the port of Rouen. She follows him to the Aegean island of Syros to begin a new life as a married woman in the home of her formidable mother-in-law. Enchanted by the beauty of her surroundings, and fascinated by her husbands erudite younger brother, she aspires to learn all she can about contemporary Greek culture and live up to the ideals of her classical education. But when disaster upends her husbands shipping business and the comfortable stability of their life together, Marinas world slides into a vicious circle of love, passion, and death. Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, this is an exquisite account of the inner life of the heroine, and the collisions of different cultures and ways of being. In prose that ranges from the lyrical to the tersely realist, Karagatsis weaves a classic tale that is wide-ranging in its literary references, and devastating in its psychological nuance. This modern Greek tragedy has been made into a TV series and a highly acclaimed stage play, enjoying three sold-out seasons in Athens, and an international tour.
Download or read book Chimera written by Mira Grant and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in Mira Grant's terrifying Parasitology trilogy. The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera. The broken doors are closing. Can Sal make it home? ParasitologyParasiteSymbiont Chimera For more from Mira Grant, check out: Newsflesh FeedDeadlineBlackout Newsflesh Short Fiction Apocalypse Scenario #683: The BoxCountdownSan Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California BrowncoatsHow Green This Land, How Blue This SeaThe Day the Dead Came to Show and TellPlease Do Not Taunt the Octopus
Download or read book The Chimera Code written by Wayne Santos and published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVERYTHING'S FOR HIRE. EVEN MAGIC. If you need something done, Cloke’s one of the best; a mercenary with some unusual talents and an attitude to match. But when she’s hired by a virtual construct to destroy the other copies of himself, and the down payment is a new magical skill, she knows this job is going to be a league harder than anything she’s ever done. “A full-throttle magical cyberpunk superhero thriller” - Peter McLean
Download or read book Chimera written by David Wellington and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan veteran Jim Chapel has been enlisted in a new war. This time it's in his own backyard . . . and even more deadly. A small band of fugitives escapes from a secret upstate New York military facility, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Each fugitive has a target—an innocent civilian—and will not stop until that target has been eliminated. Wounded Special Forces veteran Jim Chapel has been stuck behind a desk rather than out in the field, but medical technology has finally caught up with his ambitions. Coupled with his unstoppable determination, it will take him back to where he thrives: the thick of the action. Drafted into a new war, this time in our homeland, Chapel is tasked with hunting a group of escapees from a top secret military compound—all extremely deadly, genetically modified killers—and unraveling the mystery behind their existence. Aided by an enigmatic woman named Angel and a courageous, beautiful veterinarian, Chapel begins a cross-country hunt to stop the murders. But are the killers really rogues, or are they part of a sinister conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels?
Book Synopsis The Chimera of Prague: Paperback edition by : Rick Pryll
Download or read book The Chimera of Prague: Paperback edition written by Rick Pryll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pryll captures all the international sexual tension and possibility that was 1990s Prague." - Bonnie Ditlevsen, editor, Penduline PressDivorced expat, Joseph, takes a gap year in the late nineties, womanizing Prague with a vengeance. He obsesses over one elusive girl, and tires of the parade of women he assimilates into his sad life, Along the way, he figures three things out. First, he is going to end up alone. Second, the object of his infatuation is changed by the infatuation, rendering her incompatible with him, and third, the search is not about the girl. It is about unearthing a way to love himself again. His soulmate is out there. In fact, he may have already met her. "Chimera" features a unique story-within-the-story format as Joseph digs from finish to start through his first love in an attempt to understand his particular brand of dysfunction. As much as the big story is about a love affair with a magical city, the vignettes are an ode to Western New York State from which he hails, and the woman who originally broke his heart.
Book Synopsis A Summoning of Demons by : Cate Glass
Download or read book A Summoning of Demons written by Cate Glass and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cate Glass's A Summoning of Demons marks the thrilling conclusion for the Chimera team, a ragtag crew who use their forbidden magic for the good of the kingdom. Catagna has been shaken to its core. The philosophists insist that a disastrous earthquake has been caused by an ancient monster imprisoned below the earth, who can only be freed with magic. In every street and market, the people of Catagna are railing against magic-users with a greater ferocity than ever before, and magic hunters are everywhere. Meanwhile, Romy has been dreaming. Every night, her dreams are increasingly vivid and disturbing. Every day, she struggles to understand the purpose of the Chimera's most recent assignment from the Shadow Lord. As Romy and the others attempt to carry out their mission, they find themselves plunged into a mystery of corruption and murder, myth and magic, and a terrifying truth: the philosophists may have been right all along. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The Chimera's Curse by : Julia Golding
Download or read book The Chimera's Curse written by Julia Golding and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantasy series about a secret society sworn to protect mythical creatures and the girl who becomes its most important member.
Download or read book Chimera written by Carol Frost and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chimera Brigade, Volume 1 by : Serge Lehman
Download or read book The Chimera Brigade, Volume 1 written by Serge Lehman and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the turmoil of the First World War, a new breed of superhuman is born as a result of illegal chemical weapons. Marie Curie experiments upon them, sometimes with terrifying consequences. While some members of this unique new class of society choose to fight against injustice, others use their extraordinary capabilities to spread terror. However, something far more powerful is lurking on the horizon, a threat that could erase them from existence for good. Up against enemies who can hypnotise, walk through walls and even more unimaginable things - what chance does the human race have?
Book Synopsis The Chimera's Coming by : Nathan Kuzack
Download or read book The Chimera's Coming written by Nathan Kuzack and published by Nathan Kuzack. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When chronic misfit Isaac Winter walks out into the freezing cold of a January night, he only has one thing on his mind: ending his own life. Instead, he encounters something in the darkness that makes life worth living. Something strange. Something scary. Something not of this world – an extraterrestrial machine of unknown origin and intent. After developing an obsession with this other-worldly entity, events are set in motion that lead Isaac to a secret military organisation, strangers with superhuman powers, and – ultimately – a revelation about his own past he could never have dreamt of.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Billy the Chimera Hunter by : D.Z. Mah
Download or read book The Adventures of Billy the Chimera Hunter written by D.Z. Mah and published by WorkHorse Productions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains the previously published stories: Billy Chan and the Case of the Pengurtles Billy Chan and the Little Lost Orcoose Billy Chan and the Fronine Invasion Billy Chan and the Walrar Bear Abduction Billy Chan Goes Where the Sheelephants Roam Billy Chan Chases a Burkey through Albuquerque Billy Chan Rescues a Moark Named Mark Billy Chan and the Stinky Goatopus Billy Chan Goes to the World of the Felidavians Billy Chan and the Clash of the Bungolins Billy Chan and Operation Bager Billy Chan and the Giraffigator Showdown Penguins with turtle shells kidnapped my parents on our family vacation, and that’s how I learned I’m a chimera hunter. Chimeras are mythical creatures who look like mixed up versions of regular animals, and they visit from other worlds sometimes. Only chimera hunters can follow them back into their worlds. When you’re a kid, that gets complicated. Hi, my name is Billy Chan, and I’m the main character in this book. Sounds weird for a book character to say that, huh? Most of us have no idea that we aren’t real, living, breathing people. So why do I know this, and why do I tell you that I know this?Because in this book you’re going to help me make some big decisions. You can make safe or risky decisions and change the end of the story. In life, you want to learn to make safe decisions, but in books, you should feel free to take risks. That’s part of the fun.No matter what crazy decisions you ask me to make, I’ll be just fine. Come join me on my first ever adventure!
Book Synopsis The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan by : J. Charles Schenking
Download or read book The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan written by J. Charles Schenking and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he documents how the citizens of Tokyo experienced this unprecedented calamity and explores the ways in which it rattled people's deep-seated anxieties about modernity. While explaining how and why the disaster compelled people to reflect on Japanese society, he also examines how reconstruction encouraged the capital's inhabitants to entertain new types of urbanism as they rebuilt their world. Some residents hoped that a grandiose metropolis, reflecting new values, would rise from the ashes of disaster-ravaged Tokyo. Many, however, desired a quick return of the city they once called home. Opportunistic elites advocated innovative state infrastructure to better manage the daily lives of Tokyo residents. Others focused on rejuvenating society--morally, economically, and spiritually--to combat the perceived degeneration of Japan. Schencking explores the inspiration behind these dreams and the extent to which they were realized. He investigates why Japanese citizens from all walks of life responded to overtures for renewal with varying degrees of acceptance, ambivalence, and resistance. His research not only sheds light on Japan's experience with and interpretation of the earthquake but challenges widespread assumptions that disasters unite stricken societies, creating a "blank slate" for radical transformation. National reconstruction in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake, Schencking demonstrates, proved to be illusive.
Download or read book The Chimera Seed written by Matthew Tully and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sole heir to his late father's pharmaceutical company, Michael Tiernan inherits more than just the struggling family business. Following a reluctant trip to Sardinia to settle his father's assets, Michael discovers he is not only part owner of an extraordinary vineyard but of the key to immortality itself. The experimental drug Dionysinol is the culmination of his father's life's work and has the potential to transform human existence, but at what cost? The phenomenal aging remedy is at the center of a dangerous tug-of-war motivated by greed, corruption and revenge in this tense tale of pharmaceutical espionage. Awards: 2011 Eric Hoffer Award (Honorable Mention, Commercial Fiction) 2009 USA Book News National Book Award (Finalist, General Fiction) Membership: The Authors Guild
Book Synopsis The Chimera's Apprentice by : Roslyn Muir
Download or read book The Chimera's Apprentice written by Roslyn Muir and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyra has lost her family. Her mother has been snatched by the rat people, and her estranged dad is too busy fighting them to help. The reluctant princess of Antiica, Kyra, 13, goes against her father's wishes and sets out on a dangerous journey to rescue her mom. She meets Coyne, a teen who deserted the army, and rescues Mercy, an enslaved rat girl. The trio of unlikely companions must put aside their differences and brave the unknown reaches of a strange land. But Kyra's life is changed completely when she's forced to bond with the ancient Chimera, a magical creature that can read her mind and transport her across the land. Will Kyra learn how to control the chimera in time to save her mother? The Chimera's Apprentice is the story of a girl, an ancient power, and a desperate search for family.