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Piranèse

Autor: Susanna Clarke

Número de Páginas: 186

Lauréat du Women's Prize 2021 Le retour attendu et triomphal de l'auteure de Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell La maison où vit Piranèse n'est pas un bâtiment ordinaire : ses pièces sont infinies, ses couloirs interminables et ses salles ornées de milliers de statues. Au coeur de cette architecture monumentale est emprisonné un océan, mais Piranèse n'a pas peur, il vit pour explorer ce labyrinthe. Dans son journal, il dresse de rigoureux rapports de ses errances. L'Autre vit aussi dans cette cité enfouie. Piranèse lui rend visite deux fois par semaine et l'aide dans sa recherche du Grand Savoir. Mais, au cours de ses expéditions, Piranèse découvre un jour des preuves de l'existence d'un troisième habitant. Une terrible vérité commence à se dévoiler, révélant un monde totalement différent de celui qu'il connaît. Envoûtant, Piranèse nous plonge dans un monde parallèle onirique, à la beauté irréelle, rempli d'images surprenantes, tourmenté par les flots et les nuages. " Une lumineuse prouesse littéraire " Madeline Miller, auteure de Circé Lauréat du Women's Prize 2021

Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697

Número de Páginas: 72

21st-Century Gothic

Autor: Danel Olson

Número de Páginas: 711

Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. The essays in this volume discuss the merits of these novels, highlighting the influences and key components that make them worthy of inclusion. Many of the pioneer voices of Gothic Studies, as well as other key critics of the field, have all contributed new essays to this volume, including David Punter, Jerrold Hogle, Karen F. Stein, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Tony Magistrale, Don D'Ammassa, Mavis Haut, Walter Rankin, James Doig, Laurence A. Rickels, Douglass H. Thomson, Sue Zlosnik, Carol Margaret Davision, Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Glennis Byron, Judith Wilt, Bernice Murphy, Darrell Schweitzer, and June Pulliam. The guide includes a preface by one of the world's leading authorities on the weird and fantastic, S. T. Joshi. Sharing their knowledge of how traditional Gothic elements and tensions surface in a changed way within a contemporary novel, the contributors...

Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston

Autor: Henry Bond

Número de Páginas: 1150

Ambiguity and Narratology

Autor: Simon Grund , Robert Kirstein , Julian Wagner

Número de Páginas: 284

As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, within this context, it has been observed that words or expressions situated within the artistic framework of storytelling have not yet been at the centre of research interest. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the phenomenon of ambiguity from the perspective of narratology – understood as a general theory of narration and narrative communication. The volume pursues two goals: Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the interdisciplinary combination of linguistics, cultural history and narratology enriches the field of literary studies significantly. This focus not only highlights how narrative techniques often rely on everyday language conventions, but also explores how various textual features, narrative devices, or even entire storylines can be affected by phenomena (or lead to experiences) of ambiguity. These ambiguities often serve as poetic strategies that are deliberately set in the communicative process of text and reader to achieve certain narrative goals. Secondly, ambiguity – as a characteristic of...

The True Queen

Autor: Zen Cho

Número de Páginas: 386

One of NPR's 50 Favorite Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade In the follow-up to the "delightful" Regency fantasy novel (NPR.org) Sorcerer to the Crown, a young woman with no memories of her past finds herself embroiled in dangerous politics in England and the land of the fae. When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda Baik, they can’t remember anything, except that they are bound as only sisters can be. They have been cursed by an unknown enchanter, and slowly Sakti starts to fade away. The only hope of saving her is to go to distant Britain, where the Sorceress Royal has established an academy to train women in magic. If Muna is to save her sister, she must learn to navigate high society, and trick the English magicians into believing she is a magical prodigy. As she's drawn into their intrigues, she must uncover the secrets of her past, and journey into a world with more magic than she had ever dreamed.

Las damas de Grace Adieu

Autor: Susanna Clarke

Número de Páginas: 237

Un mundo de fantasía en el que historia y magia se entrelazan de manera prodigiosa Por la autora de JONATHAN STRANGE Y EL SEÑOR NORRELL Tras las verdes colinas y los bosques silenciosos se ocultan confines misteriosos, más allá de los cuales la realidad se pliega en formas mágicas y llenas de peligros. Los protagonistas tienen que vérselas con seres traviesos y maliciosos que se divierten alterando el sentido y el orden de las cosas. En estos ocho relatos, los magos y las hadas se entrometen en las vidas absolutamente anodinas de párrocos locales y princesas engreídas, así como en el destino de figuras históricas como María Estuardo, reina de Escocia, o el duque de Wellington. Con su característica prosa, que combina la ironía victoriana con los temas clásicos del folclore británico, Susanna Clarke urde un mundo de fantasía en el que historia y magia se entrelazan de manera prodigiosa. La crítica ha dicho: «Intenso y fascinante. [...] Mágicamente divertido». Ursula K. Le Guin «Una alianza profana entre Jane Austen y Angela Carter». Daily Mail «Maravilloso. [...] Como si Jane Austen hubiera reescrito a los hermanos Grimm». The Spectator «Una versión...

Essex Institute Historical Collections

Autor: Essex Institute

Número de Páginas: 1006

La vista desde las últimas filas

Autor: Neil Gaiman

Número de Páginas: 656

'La vista desde las últimas filas' es una recopilación de ensayos que nos permite echar un vistazo a la mente de uno de los autores más admirados y originales de nuestra época. Observador incansable de la realidad que le rodea y comentarista sagaz, Neil Gaiman es conocido por la aguda inteligencia y la desbordante imaginación que proyecta en sus obras de ficción. En esta ocasión nos sorprende con un volumen que comprende más de sesenta ensayos que de manera analítica pero divertida, erudita y accesible, nos hablan de una miríada de temas agrupados en diez capítulos, entre los que encontramos "Algunas cosas en las que creo" (las bibliotecas, la ficción y el ar te de contar mentiras, las librerías, la pornografía como género, la inteligencia artificial...), "Algunas personas a las que he conocido" (Dave McKean, Diana Wynne Jones, Stephen King...), "Introducciones y reflexiones: ciencia ficción" (Ray Bradbury, los Premios Nébula, Fritz Leiber...), "El cine y yo" ('La novia de Frankenstein', el diario del Festival de Cine de Sundance, 'Doctor Who'...), "Sobre los cómics y algunas de las personas que los crearon" (Batman, Astro City, Will Eisner...) y un largo...

100 Must-read Fantasy Novels

Autor: Nick Rennison , Stephen E. Andrews

Número de Páginas: 209

Fantasy is one of the most visible genres in popular culture - we see the creation of magical and imagined worlds and characters in every type of media, with very strong fan bases in tow. This latest guide in the successful Bloomsbury Must-Read series covers work from a wide range of authors: Tolkien, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Michael Moorcock, Rudyard Kipling and C.S Lewis to very contemporary writers such as Garth Nix and Steven Erikson. If you want to expand your range of reading or deepen your understanding of this genre, this is the best place to start.

The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage

Autor: Lisa Hopkins

Número de Páginas: 258

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.

Principles of the Law of Wills

Autor: Stewart Chaplin

Número de Páginas: 548

The Federal Estate and Gift Taxes

Autor: Richard B. Stephens , Thomas L. Marr

Número de Páginas: 550

Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Probate and in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ...

Autor: Great Britain. Court Of Probate

Número de Páginas: 700

Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Probate

Autor: Great Britain. Court Of Probate , Maurice Charles Merttins Swabey , Thomas Hutchinson Tristram

Número de Páginas: 702

The American School of Empire

Autor: Edward Larkin

Número de Páginas: 165

This book explores how the idea of empire shaped the culture and politics of the United States from its foundation.

Stanton Inclosure

Autor: Great Britain. Commissioners For Dividing, Allotting, And Inclosing The Common Fields, Half-year Or Shack Lands, Lammas Meadows, Commons, And Waste Grounds, Within The Manor And Parish Of Stanton In The County Of Suffolk

Número de Páginas: 18

El camino de la magia

Número de Páginas: 641

Poder. Todos lo ansiamos y ellos lo tienen. Brujas, hechiceros, magos, nigromantes, aquellos capaces de ver más allá del velo de la realidad cotidiana y de infl uir en los mecanismos que mueven el universo. Ellos pueden ver el futuro en una esfera de cristal, convocar seres fantásticos y transformar el plomo en oro... o a un incauto en una rana. De Gandalf a Harry Potter, la magia nunca ha sido tan excitante y popular como ahora. El aclamado editor John Joseph Adams nos trae treinta y dos de los más fascinantes relatos jamás escritos, por algunos de los talentos más mágicos del momento, entre los que se incluyen Neil Gaiman, Simon R. Green o George R. R. Martin.

The Baronetage of England

Autor: William Betham

Número de Páginas: 580

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley

Autor: Jane Kamensky

Número de Páginas: 557

"A stunning biography…[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution, rife with divided loyalties and tangled sympathies. Famed today for his portraits of patriot leaders like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, Copley is celebrated as one of America’s founding artists. But, married to the daughter of a tea merchant and seeking artistic approval from abroad, he could not sever his own ties with Great Britain. Rather, ambition took him to London just as the war began. His view from abroad as rich and fascinating as his harrowing experiences of patriotism in Boston, Copley’s refusal to choose sides cost him dearly. Yet to this day, his towering artistic legacy remains shared by America and Britain alike.

The Seventh-day Baptist Memorial

Número de Páginas: 638

Lincolnshire Church Notes

Autor: William John Monson Baron Monson

Número de Páginas: 506

How to Read a Novelist

Autor: John Freeman

Número de Páginas: 386

The novel is alive and well, thank you very much For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the former editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers. In How to Read a Novelist, which pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, he shares with us what he's learned. From such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, and more, Freeman has talked to everyone. What emerges is an instructive and illuminating, definitive yet still idiosyncratic guide to a diverse and lively literary culture: a vision of the novel as a varied yet vital contemporary form, a portrait of the novelist as a unique and profound figure in our...

A Short History of Fantasy

Autor: Farah Mendlesohn , Edward James

Número de Páginas: 192

Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century, this account discusses contributions decade by decade--from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Lewis's Narnia books in the 1950s to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. It also discusses and explains fantasy's continuing and growing popularity.

Fairies

Autor: Dominic Connolly

Número de Páginas: 245

For centuries we have been fascinated with fairies, mythical beings often possessing intriguing magical powers to curse, trick or heal humans. In Fairies, discover the charming story behind our best loved magical characters, including the Fairy Godmother, Shakespeare’s Titania and the beloved Tinker Bell.

Metafolklore

Autor: Alexander V. Avakov

Número de Páginas: 819

The book is organized in Folklore Units. Each Folklore Unit has Context and may have one or more Metacontexts with citations of works of great philosophers or writers; hence, the title of the book is Metafolklore. The book covers the life of immigrants from the USSR in the U.S., remembers life in Russia, and gradually concentrates on the modus operandi of the KGB, FBI, CIA, NYPD, NSA, ECHELON, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Al, and ISI. It covers frontiers of legal theory of surveillance. What distinguishes this book is the intensely personal account of the events and issues.

An Introduction to Fantasy

Autor: Matthew Sangster

Número de Páginas: 481

A vibrant introduction to Fantasy that explores its uses, processes, traditions, manifestations across media, stakeholders and communities.

Narnia, Middle-Earth and The Kingdom of God

Autor: Mark Worthing

Número de Páginas: 155

Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of fantasy literature within the context of its complex relationship with the Christian tradition. In this book, Worthing looks at early influences on the genre, including European fairy tales and folklore, Northern and classical mythology, and Christian allegory. He also explores the contours of a variety of fantasy worlds from MacDonald's Faerie, Lewis' Narnia and Tolkien's Middle-Earth, to LeGuin's Earthsea, Pratchett's Discworld and Rowling's world of Hogwarts. In these worlds, and many more, we discover themes such as the battle between good and evil, the question of the existence of God, and the problem of suffering. Fantasy fans of all religious persuasions will find in this book a delightful and informative exploration of the rich history and profound themes of the fantasy genre.

The Publications of the Harleian Society

Autor: Harleian Society

Número de Páginas: 460

A Register of All the Christninges Burialles & Weddinges Within the Parish of Saint Peeters Upon Cornhill, Beginning at the Raigne of Our Most Soueraigne Ladie Queen Elizabeth

Autor: Granville William Gresham Leveson Gower

Número de Páginas: 192

A Register of All the Christninges, Burialles & Weddinges Within the Parish of Saint Peeters Upon Cornhill

Autor: London (england). St. Peter, Cornhill (parish)

Número de Páginas: 188

Of Arms and Artists

Autor: Paul Staiti

Número de Páginas: 546

A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic. The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings. As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history they were living through by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us...

The Gospel herald; or, Poor Christian's magazine

Número de Páginas: 1050

Happily Ever After

Autor: John Klima

Número de Páginas: 596

Happily Ever After is a star-studded book of fairy tales, featuring an introduction by Bill Willingham (Fables) and stories by Gregory Maguire, Susanna Clarke, Karen Joy Fowler, Charles de Lint, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Kelly Link, Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, and many other fantasy luminaries.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Autor: Susanna Clarke

Número de Páginas: 1026

The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab Over 4 million copies sold 'One of the greatest fantasy writers of her generation' New York Times 'The book I wish I'd written' R F Kuang 'Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous' Katherine Rundell 'A modern masterpiece' Spectator 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men – which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine... 'Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint' Guardian

Moral Codes

Autor: Alan F. Blackwell

Número de Páginas: 239

Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs and drudgery, leaving humans to a life of leisure. This hasn’t happened. Instead, humans are still doing boring jobs, and even worse, AI researchers have built technology that is creative, self-aware, and emotional—doing the tasks humans were supposed to enjoy. How did we get here? In Moral Codes, Alan Blackwell argues that there is a fundamental flaw in the research agenda of AI. What humanity needs, Blackwell argues, is better ways to tell computers what we want them to do, with new and better programming languages: More Open Representations, Access to Learning, and Control Over Digital Expression, in other words, MORAL CODE. Blackwell draws on his deep experiences as a programming language designer—which he has been doing since 1983—to unpack fundamental principles of interaction design and explain their technical relationship to ideas of creativity and fairness. Taking aim at software that constrains our conversations with strict word counts or infantilizes human interaction with likes and emojis, Blackwell shows how to...

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Número de Páginas: 636

The Registers of Baptisms and Marriages at St. George's Chapel, May Fair

Autor: St. George's Chapel, Mayfair (westminster, London, England)

Número de Páginas: 458

Folktales and Fairy Tales

Autor: Anne E. Duggan Ph.d. , Donald Haase Ph.d. , Helen J. Callow

Número de Páginas: 2817

Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert...

Fantasy Art and Studies 1

Autor: Les Têtes Imaginaires

Número de Páginas: 90

Loin de se réduire à Tolkien, la Fantasy est un genre aux multiples facettes. Le premier numéro de Fantasy Art and Studies explore la variété de la Fantasy actuelle. Retrouvez 10 nouvelles abordant les différents rivages du genre, 6 articles de spécialistes (dont 3 en anglais), et les superbes illustrations de Chonunhwa et Laureen Barré. Fantasy is a multi-faceted genre which cannot be reduced to Tolkien. The first issue of Fantasy Art and Studies explores the diversity of current Fantasy fiction. Discover 10 short stories presenting the different faces of the genre, 6 papers by Fantasy scholars (including 3 papers in English), and superb illustrations by Chonunhwa and Laureen Barré.