Category: Literary

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By Douglas Fowler

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By Sara Douglass

Epic myth within the culture of Trudi Canavan, Fiona McIntosh and Robert Jordan. one thousand years in the past, the folks of Achar drove the Forbidden from their lands. yet now the northern tribes of the Ravensbund are fleeing south back, with nightmarish stories of creatures who feed upon the phobia in their prey. wintry weather has come early, and with it the promise of struggle. Axis, bastard son of the lifeless Princess Rivkah, is shipped north to the battlefront at Gorkenfort together with his elite Axe-Wielders. as soon as there, he needs to give up command to his hated half-brother, Borneheld, Duke of Ichar and inheritor to the throne. yet through the lengthy trip Axis falls in love with Faraday - Borneheld's betrothed - and reveals himself reassessing the very essence of his ideals. With the destiny of the realm striking within the stability, Axis needs to unite the feuding lands lower than one banner sooner than it really is too past due and the evil emerging within the north engulfs all of them for sturdy.

By T. H. Howard-Hill

All difficulties more likely to be encountered via an individual who intends to arrange a literary concordance are mentioned on a pragmatic point, even if there's immense exam of extra complex concording recommendations which the pc makes it attainable to undertake. even though the emphasis is on works in English, the structural ideas that are analysed within the ebook could be utilized conveniently to works in different languages

By Ruth Downie

In her fourth novel, Ruth Downie brings to existence the corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain, because it closes in on her winsome major guy. Gaius Petreius Ruso and his new spouse Tilla have moved to town of Verulamium, the place a tax guy named Julius Asper has long gone lacking, in addition to some huge cash. because the research deepens, and regardless of our hero's top efforts to get himself fired, he and his bride locate themselves trapped on the middle of an more and more treacherous conspiracy related to robbery, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of Boudica, the insurgent queen.

By Siu-kit Wong

This quantity provides a clean translation of the Wenxin diaolong that's straight away authoritative and chic. it will possibly be considered as a typical reference through scholars of sinology and comparative literature.

By Rachel DeWoskin

Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old, with a voice which can shake an auditorium. She can be the superstar of Darcy Arts Academy, so why is she hiding in a seedy inn room? possibly it has anything to do with a devastating scandal---and the truth that Judy is 3 toes 9 inches tall. Big lady Small is a scathingly humorous ebook approximately goals and fact, instantaneously gentle on its toes and profound.

By Halldor Laxness

Occasionally grim, occasionally uproarious, and continually eye-catching, Iceland’s Bell by means of Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is right away an updating of the normal Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. on the shut of the seventeenth century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, ache below severe poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy comic story in regards to the Danish king and shortly after reveals himself a fugitive charged with the homicide of the king’s hangman.

In the years that keep on with, the hapless yet resilient rogue Hreggvidsson turns into a pawn entangled in political and private conflicts taking part in out on a much grander scale. leader between those is the star-crossed love affair among Snaefridur, referred to as “Iceland’s Sun,” a gorgeous, headstrong younger noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly demeanour conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their own fight performs itself out on a global level, Iceland’s Bell creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative appeal on each web page.

By Dorothy M. Peters

As father of all humanity and never solely of Israel, Noah was once a frustrating ancestor for a few Jews within the moment Temple interval. His archetypical portrayals within the lifeless Sea Scrolls, otherwise nuanced in Hebrew and Aramaic, embodied the tensions for teams that have been suffering to appreciate either their certain self-identities inside Judaism and their dating to the countries between whom they lived. Dually positioned inside of a trajectory of early Christian and rabbinic interpretation of Noah and in the Jewish Hellenistic milieu of the second one Temple interval, this research of the Noah traditions within the useless Sea Scrolls illuminates residing conversations and controversies one of the those that transmitted them and supplies to have implications for historical questions and debates that prolonged significantly past the lifeless Sea Scrolls.

By P.J. Hillery