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The Khalifah's Mirror
"I have a story to tell you. It is a tale of adventure, of love, and deception, of destiny and death. It is a tale of kings, and emperors, and of beautiful princesses; but also of poets, pirates, and priests. It is a story to entertain and instruct, to stir the blood, to inflame the senses, to dizzy the mind and rouse the soul..." Ismail the Storyteller tells tales of Abu Nuwas, the poet, libertine and spy known as The Father of Locks and his bitter rivalry with a Roman assassin; tales which gradually reveal a shocking betrayal, and culminate in a death which will shock the world. The sequel to The Father of Locks.
The Father of Locks
"Baghdad, the capital of the world, is a city crowded with stories, and founded on secrets, and some stories, can be deadly." "Ismail al-Rawiya is a thief who dreams of being a poet. He is drawn to Baghdad, and to the court of the Khalifah Harun al-Rashid. In the turbulent city, Ismail falls into the company of the poet Abu Nuwas, known as the Father of Locks. Abu Nuwas is a brilliant artist, but also a decadent drunkard with a taste for trouble." "The Father of Locks has his own secret: he is an irregular and reluctant agent of the scheming Wazir, Ja'Far al-Barmaki, who now assigns him to investigate reports that the Devil is stalking the streets of Baghdad. Together the poet and the thief uncover a hidden world, of forbidden cults, foreign spies, and a mysterious Brass Bottle." "The Father of Locks weaves together history and legend in a tale of murder and espionage in the spirit of The Thousand and One Nights." --Book Jacket.
Third Report of the Commissioner for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, with an Appendix
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Postmodern Artistry in Medievalist Fiction
Focusing on modern-day fiction set in the Middle Ages or that incorporates medieval elements, this study examines storytelling components and rhetorical tropes in more than 60 works in five languages by more than 40 authors. Medievalist fiction got its "postmodern" start with such authors as Calvino, Fuentes, Carpentier and Eco. Its momentum increased since the 1990s with writers whose work has received less critical attention, like Laura Esquivel, Tariq Ali, Matthew Pearl, Matilde Asensi, Ildefonso Falcones, Andrew Davison, Bernard Cornwell, Donnal Woolfolk Cross, Ariana Franklin, Nicole Griffith, Levi Grossman, Conn Iggulden, Edward Rutherfurd, Javier Sierra, Alan Moore and Brenda Vantrease. The author explores a wide range of "medievalizing" tropes, discusses the negative responses of postmodernism and posits four "hard problems" in medievalist fiction.
Case on Appeal
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One Man's Family
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Dark Diaries and Twisted Tales
Dark Diaries & Twisted Tales is an anthology series of short stories that explore themes of humanity, existentialism, drama, fantasy and horror. While examining the dark side of human nature at large, these stories do so with a biting sense of dark humor and a provocative edge. A young man fresh out of prison tries to start anew but falls back into the vicious cycle of crime and death that turns out, may be inescapable no matter what he does in 'Two Wrongs' and 'Wrong Time, Wrong Place'. A pampered, bored girl finds out how exhilarating and dangerous life can end up when she runs away and chooses to live on the edge in a world full of colorful characters in 'Fleeting Pleasures' and 'Creature...
Phoenix
This digital edition includes the original artwork, has been specially adapted for ebook platforms and is optimised for tablet devices. A BOY WITH THE POWER OF A STAR . . . Lucky thinks he's an ordinary Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing to him, and wakes to find an uncontrollable power rising inside him. Now he's on the run, racing through space, searching for answers. In a galaxy at war, where Humans and Aliens are deadly enemies, the only people who can help him are an Alien starship crew – and an Alien warrior girl, with neon needles in her hair . . .
Fragments
With the centenary of the outbreak of hostilities, the Great War continues to cast a shadow over the world. We can still feel the tremors from those terrible events: the personal crises and large-scale military operations that defined four years of conflict. This collection reflects these themes, presenting a kaleidoscopic view of the War's impact, on those left behind as well as those caught up in conflict. Heart-warming, thought-provoking and enigmatic, these are surprising stories of the ongoing presence of war in the lives of ordinary people.
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