Author: Marie PetersenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Will O' the Wisp
Author: Pierre Drieu La RochellePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Lights of Prague
Author: Nicole JarvisPublisher: Titan Books
ISBN: 1789093961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace in his moments spent in the company of his friend, the clever and beautiful Lady Ora Fischer - a widow with secrets of her own. When Domek finds himself stalked by the spirit of the White Lady - a ghost who haunts the baroque halls of Prague castle – he stumbles across the sentient essence of a will-o'-the-wisp captured in a mysterious container. Now, as it's bearer, Domek wields its power, but the wisp, known for leading travellers to their deaths, will not be so easily controlled. After discovering a conspiracy amongst the pijavice that could see them unleash terror on the daylight world, Domek finds himself in a race against those who aim to twist alchemical science for their own dangerous gain.
The Fifolet
Author: Johnette DowningPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455620364
Category : Atchafalaya River (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jean-Paul Pierre spends most of his time fishing in Louisiana's Atchafalaya swamp, never making time for his family or friends and never sharing his catch, but one night, he spies a strange blue light--the fifolet--and turns his greed toward finding the treasure the fifolet is said to mark. Includes glossary and the folklore behind the story.
The will-o'-the-wisps, tr. by C.I. Hart
Author: Marie PetersenThe Will O'Wisp
Author: Sharon AnnPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105993353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
As Sharon Ann traces her family's transition from real happiness to an illusion of wealth and high status, The Will O' Wisp moves beyond the memoir of a young daughter to the penetrating story of a lost era.
Rhea and the Will o’ wisp
Author: I. M. AginePublisher: Shane Wheeler
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Rhea and the Will o’ wisp is a soft adventure into a magical world where Rhea, meets many new friends as they help her find her way home This book is an AI generated story and pictures with young children in mind. This book has been curated by a small team to create a bedtime story that will activate the child imagination while allowing the child to relax and help the child to leap into their dreams with a head start into a wonderful adventure. We hope you enjoy the book and will have many more to come.
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Haunted Wisconsin
Author: Michael NormanPublisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Retold from personal interviews, newspapers, archives, and other sources, stories of ghosts, apparitions and othe supernatural occurences ranging from historical tales embedded in 19th century superstition to contemporary accounts of strange occurences in modern-day homes. This revised edition includes new stories and revisions to some of the tales original to the first edition. In addition, a few stories have been dropped for various reasons.
Will-o-the-Wisp
Author: Pirates and Devils
Author: Nicholas G. MeriwetherPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611174570
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Two of the final short novels from the literary manuscripts of William Gilmore Simms, unfinished before his death Pirates and Devils, edited by Nicholas G. Meriwether and David W. Newton, presents two of the most significant unfinished works by William Gilmore Simms, a prominent public intellectual of the antebellum South and one of the most prolific literary writers of the nineteenth century. These two incomplete works—the pirate romance, "The Brothers of the Coast," and the folk fable, "Sir Will O' Wisp"—are representative of the some of the last major primary texts of Simms's expansive career. Recent scholarship about Simms, including William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Civil War, reasserts the significance of Simms's postwar writing and makes this volume's contribution timely. Left unfinished at his death, these two substantial fragments represent the last of the major primary texts from the final phase of Simms's life to be published. Together, the texts provide greater insight into Simms's creative process, but more importantly, they show Simms continuing to wrestle with the issues he faced in the aftermath of the Civil War, and they document the creativity and courage that commitment represented—and required. The publication of these fragments makes possible a complete picture of this last phase of Simms's life, as he struggled with the consequences of a conflict that had become the defining event of his life, career, and region.