Book Description
Before the Metabarons there were the Castakas, a clan of lawless pirates - this is their story.
Author : Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 159465316X
Before the Metabarons there were the Castakas, a clan of lawless pirates - this is their story.
Author : May Agnes Fleming
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385214718
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : George Farquhar
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 1736
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Author : Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781594651083
Visionary storyteller Alexandro Jodorowsky returns to the epic universe he created with Juan Gimenez, revealing for the first time the earliest origins of the galaxy's ultimate warrior caste, the Metabarons. On a small planet lost in the midst of a galaxy, a war rages between the rival clans of lawless pirates, the Castaka, and the Amakura. During a ferocious battle, Queen Castaka is kidnapped and raped by King Amakura. From this brutal inception will be born Dayal, the first ancestor of the Metabarons.
Author : Suzanne Aspden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107067766
The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.
Author : Nellie Bly
Publisher : Sordelet Ink
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1944540849
An astonishing discovery! Available for the first time in 125 years, the Lost Novels Of Nellie Bly! Pioneering undercover journalist Nellie Bly is rightly famous for exposing society's ills. From brutal insane asylums to corrupt politicians, she exposed all manner of frauds and charlatans. She was also a skilled interviewer and reporter. What no one has known was that she was also a novelist. This is because, of the twelve novels Bly wrote between 1889 and 1895, eleven of have been lost. Until now. Newly discovered by author David Blixt (What Girls Are Good For, The Master Of Verona), Nellie Bly's lost works of fiction are now available for the first time! Complete with the original artwork! These are The Lost Novels of Nellie Bly! Dimple and Della disagree. The twins have differing views of love. Dimple plans to wed for wealth, freeing her family from the weight of poverty. Della, however, plans to only marry for love. Despite their love for each other, each twin finds the other foolish in regards to the purpose of matrimony. When Dimple marries the old millionaire Mr. Darlington, she thinks she has won the prize. But soon she finds life in a mansion is filled with crippling loneliness. On a visit to her sister, she finds herself rescued from certain death by a handsome stranger, and realizes at once that Della has been right all along. Love is all that matters in the world. But even if she were not already tied to the grumbling and jealous Darlington, there is another obstacle to Dimple’s happiness. The man she loves is already betrothed—to Dimple’s sister Della! A passionate story of desire and denial, this final novel of Nellie Bly’s pen is perhaps her most prescient, mirroring events of her life to come. Not based on her reporting but on her own questions of love and the duality of her own nature, Bly plays out the questions that vex her in . . .Twins & Rivals!
Author : James Rendel Harris
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Dioscuri (Greek mythology)
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Author : T. Rendel Harris
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Twins
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Author : Christopher William Hill
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408316714
A gruesomely funny series for fans of Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket. When twins Greta and Feliks are sent to the ill-omened Schwartzgarten Reformatory for Maladjusted Children it seems their fate is sealed: that is until they are rescued by the glamorous Olga Van Veenen, a fabulously wealthy children's author, plagued by writer's block. But Olga's life is apparently in danger, threatened by a second-rate novelist who wishes to see his rival dead. When Olga and her faithful retainer, Valentin, disappear from the eerie and imposing Castle Van Veenen, many miles north by train from Schwartzgarten's Imperial Railway Station, Greta and Feliks conclude that the murderous novelist has finally exacted his revenge on Olga. Only by using their wits are the twins able to rescue their guardian before it is too late. As if by magic, Olga's writer's block lifts, and she quickly produces and publishes a new book for children. The novel has eerie similarities to the twins' adventures in Castle Van Veenen, and Greta and Feliks begin to question whether their guardian has deliberately placed them in danger for literary inspiration. But Olga Van Veenen has come too far to have her reputation muddied by the allegations of the twins, and will stop at nothing to silence them forever. With cover and chapter head artwork by Chris Riddell.
Author : Patrick ONeill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487502788
Trilingual Joyce is a detailed comparative study of James Joyce's personal involvement in both French and Italian translations of the iconic 1928 text Anna Livia Plurabelle, which later became the eighth chapter of Finnegans Wake. Considered to be completely untranslatable at the time of its publication, the translation of Anna Livia Plurabelle represented a fascinating challenge to Joyce, who collaborated in experimental renderings of the text, first into French and later into Italian. Patrick O'Neill's Trilingual Joyce is the first comparative study of all three of the Anna Livia Plurabelle variations, and fills a long-standing gap in Joyce studies. O'Neill, an Irish-born professor who has written widely on texts in translation, also discusses in detail the avant-guard novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett's contribution as a young man to the French rendering of Anna Livia Plurabelle.