Author: SupervertPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970497154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Who's Your Death Hero?
Author: SupervertDeath of a Hero
Author: Richard AldingtonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101602937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul
Author: John C. RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780929999098
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
John Robinson presents the compelling journey from youth to middle age in this study of the spiritual and psychological realities of male midlife. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Death of a Hero
Author: John FlanaganPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101577797
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Ranger Will's past is revealed in this story from the New York Times bestselling Ranger's Apprentice. Halt reveals to Will the story behind his parents' deaths and how he came to live at the Castle Redmont Ward.
Heroes of Troy
Author: Lawton Boyd EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Hero at the Fall
Author: Alwyn HamiltonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147519101
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The breathless finale to the New York Times bestselling Rebel of the Sands series will have you on the edge of your seat until the dust from the final battle clears! When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn't have a choice. Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and her untameable Demdji powers, Amani must rally her skeleton crew of rebels for a rescue mission through the unforgiving desert to a place that, according to maps, doesn't exist. As she watches those she loves most lay their lives on the line against ghouls and enemy soldiers, Amani questions whether she can be the leader they need or if she is leading them all to their deaths.
Living Your Dying
Author: Stanley KelemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780394487878
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"This book is about dying, not about death. We are always dying a big, always giving things up, always having things taken away. Is there a person alive who isn't really curious about what dying is for them? Is there a person alive who wouldn't like to go to their dying full of excitement, without fear and without morbidity? This books tells you how." -- Front cover.
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
Author: Michael AusielloPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501134965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that preceded it, and describes how their undeniably powerful bond carried them through all manner of difficulties, with humor always front and center of the relationship.
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
Author: Robert P. GoldmanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206864
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
"The definitive translation of the classic Sanskrit work in a single-volume paperback edition"--
The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama
Author: N. LieblerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113704957X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.