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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night; with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory
Author: Richard F. BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387027613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Supplemental Nights to the Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
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Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Stranger Magic
Author: Marina WarnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Bitter Night
Author: Diana Pharaoh FrancisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416598197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
SOMETIMES YOU CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES. AND SOMETIMES, THEY CHOOSE YOU... Once, Max dreamed of a career, a home, a loving family. Now all she wants is freedom...and revenge. A witch named Giselle transformed Max into a warrior with extraordinary strength, speed, and endurance. Bound by spellcraft, Max has no choice but to fight as Giselle's personal magic weapon -- a Shadowblade -- and she's lethally good at it. But her skills are about to be put to the test as they never have before.... The ancient Guardians of the earth are preparing to unleash widespread destruction on the mortal world, and they want the witches to help them. If the witches refuse, their covens will be destroyed, including Horngate, the place Max has grudgingly come to think of as home. Max thinks she can find a way to help Horngate stand against the Guardians, but doing so will mean forging dangerous alliances -- including one with a rival witch's Shadowblade, who is as drawn to Max as she is to him -- and standing with the witch she despises. Max will have to choose between the old life she still dreams of and the warrior she has become, and take her place on the side of right -- if she survives long enough to figure out which side that is....
The Night the Heads Came
Author: William SleatorPublisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780140384413
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
When aliens abduct both Leo and his artist friend Tim, Leo tries to determine why these creatures from outer space want particularly to use his friend's talent.
Abandon the Night
Author: Colleen GleasonPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061981249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Colleen Gleason (writing as Joss Ware) continues the Envy Chronicles, featuring men who have emerged from raging fires to be humankind's last hope … Quentin Fielding had everything. Money. Power. Women. But now that civilization is all but annihilated, Quent wants only one thing: revenge on the man responsible for the chaos and destruction, the man he should have killed years ago—his father. Zoë Kapoor is on her own quest for vengeance. The arrow-wielding beauty is searching for the fiends who murdered her family. Together with Quent, she journeys through the ruins of the world they once knew, on a hunt that draws them closer to an enemy they never imagined …
Arcadian Nights
Author: John SpurlingPublisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 0715650483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In this vibrant, gripping and often grisly retelling of the Greek myths, stories of murder, power, revenge, love, and traumatic family relationships are made new again for our time with wit and relish by a gifted author. Spurling has added scene, dialogue, and context, while always staying true to the spirit of the original myth. Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese, where the stories are set, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon, including tales of the doomed house of Atreus (notably Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, murdered by his wife in his palace bathroom); of the god Apollo; goddess Athene; Theseus, scourge of the Minotaur; the Twelve Labors of Heracles; and Perseus, rescuer of Andromeda.