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Author: Eileen Aiyana Taylor Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1796038202 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 246
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Vanni Bellini is an Italian vampire. He was turned into one by a pureblood in the early 1820s at the age of seventeen. His parents died in the mid-1800s, leaving him alone. It is now the year 2020, with all the high-end fashion and modern-day technology. Since he only makes four hundred dollars a month to live off of, he has no extra money to spend on new things. He is stuck living with the possessions he has had since the 1800s. There are some upsides though. For one, the royal family has passed a law for the peasants to go to school. He’s now a junior in high school with hope for a better future. He wants more than anything to uplift his peasant name. Peasants in his day and age are looked down on. They are beaten, spit on, and called names, called worthless. Some even say that they just shouldn’t be alive. Vanni is different somehow. He has a knack for always finding himself in bad situations. Since he is mateless, no one is there to save him. There is no one to protect him. What will happen when he finds himself at the royal castle with two uninvited guests? They are offering him a better life, a life with no beatings or suicide comments. But what’s the catch? Nothing comes free. Everything comes with a price, but what is it? Will his mate ever come for him?
Author: Eileen Aiyana Taylor Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1796038202 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
Vanni Bellini is an Italian vampire. He was turned into one by a pureblood in the early 1820s at the age of seventeen. His parents died in the mid-1800s, leaving him alone. It is now the year 2020, with all the high-end fashion and modern-day technology. Since he only makes four hundred dollars a month to live off of, he has no extra money to spend on new things. He is stuck living with the possessions he has had since the 1800s. There are some upsides though. For one, the royal family has passed a law for the peasants to go to school. He’s now a junior in high school with hope for a better future. He wants more than anything to uplift his peasant name. Peasants in his day and age are looked down on. They are beaten, spit on, and called names, called worthless. Some even say that they just shouldn’t be alive. Vanni is different somehow. He has a knack for always finding himself in bad situations. Since he is mateless, no one is there to save him. There is no one to protect him. What will happen when he finds himself at the royal castle with two uninvited guests? They are offering him a better life, a life with no beatings or suicide comments. But what’s the catch? Nothing comes free. Everything comes with a price, but what is it? Will his mate ever come for him?
Author: Juliette Cross Publisher: Entangled: Amara ISBN: 1633758753 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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Every day, the threat of the Varis family grows stronger—especially to the humans they rule over. And with every minute that Arabelle spends doing chores for vain, entitled aristocrats, her resolve to overthrow the vampire monarchy increases. She is the leader of the underground resistance, The Black Lily. And she’s waited long enough. Now is the perfect time to ignite the rebellion. The plan? Attend the vampire prince’s blood ball. And kill him. Dagger in hand, Arabelle is caught off guard by the immediate spark she shares with Prince Marius. It doesn’t help that he’s listening to her and seems so kind and understanding. Arabelle is sworn to kill Marius at all costs, but what if Prince Charming is more than he appears to be? Because now he knows the truth...and she’ll have to do whatever she can to save her people. Each book in the Vampire Blood series is STANDALONE: * The Black Lily * The Red Lily * The White Lily * The Emerald Lily
Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345464532 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 401
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See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.
Author: Adriana Groza Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 147661492X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore--yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty count of Bram Stoker's imagination or the romantic hero of popular fiction. The Romanian tradition reflects the norms of peasant life and wisdom embedded in age-old communities. This book consists of 21 narratives developed from brief accounts recorded by local anthropologists and historians from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The goal is to capture the major themes found in the existing sources. The book also includes translations of 17 brief folk stories about Vlad Ţepeş, known as Dracula. Contrary to the prevailing fictive image, these stories portray Vlad as a wise although strict ruler and a proud defender of his country's autonomy. An introduction discusses the Transylvanian village and its rich folk traditions, making explicit the comparison to the historic and to the fictional Dracula.
Author: Dr Tom Brass Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136325298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 398
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Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism.
Author: Christopher Frayling Publisher: Thames & Hudson ISBN: 0500773491 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 530
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An expanded, fully illustrated, and up-to-date edition of the classic cultural history of vampires Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. It incorporates extracts from a huge range of sources—from Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula to penny dreadfuls, to Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (new to this edition) which is analyzed by the author in a broader cultural context. This revised and expanded edition of the 1978 classic brings Vampyres up to date with twenty-first-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary, and a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four color-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from eighteenth-century prints to twenty-first-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film.
Author: Alan Dundes Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 029915923X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk traditions. The essays examine the history of the word “vampire;” Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire has been and continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it—in reality or in fiction.
Author: Carol A. Senf Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres ISBN: 0299263835 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 214
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Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.
Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345337662 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 369
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The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Author: Ryan Bishop Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136060502 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 350
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A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi, and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies, and politics of the postcolonial city.
Author: Eileen Aiyana Taylor
Author: Eileen Aiyana Taylor
Author: Juliette Cross
Author: Anne Rice
Author: Adriana Groza
Author: Dr Tom Brass
Author: Christopher Frayling
Author: Alan Dundes
Author: Carol A. Senf
Author: Anne Rice
Author: Ryan Bishop