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A Low Road to Enlightenment
Thirty years after the fact, memories of an early assignment still haunt Jake Loner. Sent to support the last vestiges of a failed CIA mission in Tibet, he is ensnared in a centuries old plot to protect ancient Tibetan treasures from enemies of the past, present and future. High in the Himalayas Jake must confront demons, real and imagined, to preserve these treasures and insure survival of his team and his lover. Betrayal and deceit dog Jake's steps from a Caribbean purgatory to the strange blood rites of Kathmandu. Ultimately he survives but his demons are not confined to the past and he must come to terms with them even as they haunt him now
The Low Road to Riobamba
The third adventure in the Low Road Trilogy.Jake Loner is back, dealing with his checkered past. Long forgotten misdeeds return to haunt him and threaten to unleash a Pandora's vengeance on his few scattered friends as well as the rest of the world. Betrayal, jealousy and revenge close in on Jake and his crew as they try to stuff a genie they themselves unleashed, back in the bottle. Hijacked and double-crossed on their mission, only violence, creative mysticism and pharmacology can save them.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Selected Writings
The work of ‘L.E.L.’ began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon’s life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as “cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense.” In addition to a broad selection of Landon’s poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Metrical Romance
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) was one of the leading women poets of the second generation of English Romantic writers. Following her predecessor Walter Scott and her contemporary Lord Byron, she was a fluent practitioner and essential innovator of the metrical romance and exerted a strong influence on the work of Victorian poets (especially Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti). This book analyses Landon's poetics, with particular reference to the close relationship between the narrative poem as literary genre and its gender implications. Landon was both an eclectic writer and a literary businesswoman: she was an extremely effective promoter of her litera...
Lineage Book
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
