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Fantasy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Fantasy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.

An Impeccable Spy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

An Impeccable Spy

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARRÉ Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World War, he became a fanatical communist - and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy. Combining charm with ruthless manipulation, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society. His intelligence proved pivotal to the Soviet counter-offensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war itself. Drawing on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives, this is a major biography of one of the greatest spies who ever lived.

The History of the Island of Antigua
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

The History of the Island of Antigua

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Red River Settlers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Red River Settlers

Records of the settlers of Northern Montgomery, Robertson and sumner Counties, Tennessee.

The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL

During a time of momentous events - BREXIT! A GENERAL ELECTION! A GLOBAL PANDEMIC! - the Government's chief adviser has been writing down his thoughts - in diaries, blog posts, on Post-it notes and any scrap of paper he can find. Discovered in an abandoned backpack on a train, we reveal the intriguing contents. These include: · The full story of the INFAMOUS TRIP TO DURHAM (and furious dash back to London while driving at speed with faulty eyesight) · The SHOCKING REVELATIONS of his 1995 Russian diary · FASCINATING secrets of CABINET ZOOM CALLS in which government ministers SHAKE IN TERROR when he asks them some very basic questions · What happened when he hit MICHAEL GOVE over the head with a PENCIL · His EXPLOSIVE REACTION to BORIS JOHNSON'S DEATH (and subsequent response when he found out the PM was still alive) · The sheer EXHILARATION of being DOMINIC CUMMINGS And much, much more . . .

Gehennical Fire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Gehennical Fire

Eirenaeus Philalethes was reputed to have performed miracles--restoring an aged lady's teeth and hair, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit--and was also rumored to possess a philosophers' stone. That he was merely a mythical creation didn't diminish his public reputation a whit. This is the story of the man behind the myth, George Starkey.

Index to Marriages and Deaths in the New York Herald: 1835-1855
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

Index to Marriages and Deaths in the New York Herald: 1835-1855

This first volume of Mr. Maher's four-volume work indexes 38,000 death notices and 14,000 marriage notices. The extensive notices refer to people up and down the East Coast as well as to midwesterners and persons from as far west as the State of California.