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A woman seeking revenge joins a clan of mercenaries and ends up falling for her deadly commander. They risk it all when they awaken a dark curse that demands to be sated with passion or violence.
Author : Sara Sellers
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
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ISBN : 9781737219408
A woman seeking revenge joins a clan of mercenaries and ends up falling for her deadly commander. They risk it all when they awaken a dark curse that demands to be sated with passion or violence.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : P Vergilius Maro
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2020-12-31
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These books are intended to make Virgil's Latin accessible even to those with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of the language. There is a departure here from the format of the electronic books, with short sections generally being presented on single, or double, pages and endnotes entirely avoided. A limited number of additional footnotes is included, but only what is felt necessary for a basic understanding of the story and the grammar. Some more detailed footnotes have been taken from Conington's edition of the Aeneid.
Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2023-06-23T19:01:37Z
Category : Fiction
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Philo Vance, the snobbish art collector who happens to be the longtime friend of District Attorney John Markham, once more finds himself drawn into a criminal investigation. Margaret Odell, the beautiful and talented theatrical singer nicknamed “The Canary,” has been strangled during the night, and from the very beginning there are signs that nothing in the case is quite what it appears to be. Accompanied once more by Sergeant Heath, the unlikely trio struggle to make sense of the evidence. S. S. Van Dine found even more success with this novel, his sophomore outing as a mystery writer. Spending months on the bestseller lists, it was also the first of his books to be made into a movie, with William Powell starring as Philo Vance. At a time when a majority of successful mystery writers were English, Van Dine’s novels evoked an atmosphere that was distinctly American, with Vance’s cultured perspective colliding with Markham’s pragmatic sensibilities and Heath’s no-nonsense street smarts. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Thomas Moynihan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1913029638
The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, André Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal. Tracing its provenance through the biological notions of phylogeny and “organic memory” that fueled early psychoanalysis, back into idealism, nature philosophy, and romanticism, and across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology, Thomas Moynihan reveals the historical continuity of spinal catastrophism. From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from “railway spine” to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fanciful notion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history.
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612104878
John Carter is back and in the Barsoonian city of Zodanga, where he discovers the Assasins guild is alive and well!
Author : Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1909254150
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in the human realm, unfolds within the larger horizon of a supernatural sphere, dominated by power-conscious divinities. Dido is Aeneas' most significant other, and in their encounter Virgil explores timeless themes of love and loyalty, fate and fortune, the justice of the gods, imperial ambition and its victims, and ethnic differences. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study questions, a commentary, and interpretative essays. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Virgil's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486113973
Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Author : Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1901
Category : English poetry
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Author : Flavius P. Philostratos
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1680
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