Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380453931
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
" ... the future of man and the automobile ..."--Front wrapper. Each story preceded by 1-3 paragraphs of commentary.
Quest Sinister
Author: Stuart Petre Brodie Mais
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Car Sinister
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380453931
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
" ... the future of man and the automobile ..."--Front wrapper. Each story preceded by 1-3 paragraphs of commentary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380453931
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
" ... the future of man and the automobile ..."--Front wrapper. Each story preceded by 1-3 paragraphs of commentary.
Sinister Aesthetics
Author: Joel Elliot Slotkin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319527975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through these discussions, the book introduces the concept of “sinister aesthetics”: artistic conventions that can make representations of the villainous, monstrous, or hellish pleasurable.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319527975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through these discussions, the book introduces the concept of “sinister aesthetics”: artistic conventions that can make representations of the villainous, monstrous, or hellish pleasurable.
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
Author: Theodora Goss
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
ISBN: 1534427880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll, and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished—and so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes! As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock’s kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends—and the Empire? In the final volume of the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called “a tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” in a starred review, the women of the Athena Club will embrace their monstrous pasts to create their own destinies.
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
ISBN: 1534427880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll, and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished—and so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes! As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock’s kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends—and the Empire? In the final volume of the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called “a tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” in a starred review, the women of the Athena Club will embrace their monstrous pasts to create their own destinies.
The Sinister Me
Author: Kaustav Mukherjee
Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9362634112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Sinister Me is a relentlessly surprising sci-fi thriller. Ravi, a manager at 6-Sigma consultancy, had been living a seemingly perfect life with his wife Riya and daughter Rittika. While everything was going well, an uncanny situation gradually emerged in his peaceful life. It was the sudden emergence of a mystery man who seemed to starkly resemble him! As Ravi tried to find out more about him, one day, to his horror, his family got abducted! An entire year passed. No amount of help from any source could give him any clue about their whereabouts! Then, one night, there was a subtle contact! It felt as if his beloved wife had just spoken to him, inside his mind! Using a subtle thought communication, Riya informed that she and her daughter had been taken to an enigmatic place that starkly resembled their own! Ravi’s friend Jayant, a genius scientist, talked about various esoteric possibilities by touching upon scientific theories, especially Quantum Mechanics, which is notoriously popular for proposing unpredictable outcomes. Ravi needed to get to the bottom of this unnatural mystery in search of his family, the answer to which lay in a journey to an enigmatic destination - a daring quest across space-time! But, little did Ravi know about the sinister ploy that awaited him there! The Sinister Me is a mind-bendingly strange thriller fiction. A perfect read for science fiction and science thriller fans.
Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9362634112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Sinister Me is a relentlessly surprising sci-fi thriller. Ravi, a manager at 6-Sigma consultancy, had been living a seemingly perfect life with his wife Riya and daughter Rittika. While everything was going well, an uncanny situation gradually emerged in his peaceful life. It was the sudden emergence of a mystery man who seemed to starkly resemble him! As Ravi tried to find out more about him, one day, to his horror, his family got abducted! An entire year passed. No amount of help from any source could give him any clue about their whereabouts! Then, one night, there was a subtle contact! It felt as if his beloved wife had just spoken to him, inside his mind! Using a subtle thought communication, Riya informed that she and her daughter had been taken to an enigmatic place that starkly resembled their own! Ravi’s friend Jayant, a genius scientist, talked about various esoteric possibilities by touching upon scientific theories, especially Quantum Mechanics, which is notoriously popular for proposing unpredictable outcomes. Ravi needed to get to the bottom of this unnatural mystery in search of his family, the answer to which lay in a journey to an enigmatic destination - a daring quest across space-time! But, little did Ravi know about the sinister ploy that awaited him there! The Sinister Me is a mind-bendingly strange thriller fiction. A perfect read for science fiction and science thriller fans.
Gate Sinister
Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645451932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Disguised as a governess, the last fairy in Britannia infiltrates the household of the Gloucester family to fulfil a vital mission on behalf of her exiled people. On the run after offending the Royal family, two infamous magical engineers set out to commit the crime of the century on behalf of a wicked enchantress. For one night only, the Gate Sinister can be opened between worlds, clearing the way to the long-lost Forest of Arden. For one night only, all things are possible… Gate Sinister is the first in a new gaslamp fantasy series of novellas by the author of Tea & Sympathetic Magic and The Frost Fair Affair.
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645451932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Disguised as a governess, the last fairy in Britannia infiltrates the household of the Gloucester family to fulfil a vital mission on behalf of her exiled people. On the run after offending the Royal family, two infamous magical engineers set out to commit the crime of the century on behalf of a wicked enchantress. For one night only, the Gate Sinister can be opened between worlds, clearing the way to the long-lost Forest of Arden. For one night only, all things are possible… Gate Sinister is the first in a new gaslamp fantasy series of novellas by the author of Tea & Sympathetic Magic and The Frost Fair Affair.
The Sinister Side
Author: James Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199230862
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Sinister Side is the first book to detail the richness and subtlety of left-right symbolism since the Renaissance, and to show how it was a catalyst for some of the greatest works of visual art from Leonardo and Michelangelo to Rembrandt and Picasso. Traditionally, the left side was regarded as evil, weak, and worldly, but with the Renaissance, artists began to represent the left side as the side that represented authentic human feelings and especially love. Writers including Lorenzo de' Medici, Michelangelo, and Winckelmann hailed the supreme moral and aesthetic beauty of the left side. Images of lovers foreground the left side of the body, emphasizing its refinement and sensitivity. In the late nineteenth century, with the rise of interest in the occult and in spiritualism, the left side becomes associated with the taboo and with the unconscious. James Hall's insightful discussion of left and right symbolism helps us to see how the self and the mind were perceived during these periods, and gives us a new key to understanding art in its social and intellectual context.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199230862
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Sinister Side is the first book to detail the richness and subtlety of left-right symbolism since the Renaissance, and to show how it was a catalyst for some of the greatest works of visual art from Leonardo and Michelangelo to Rembrandt and Picasso. Traditionally, the left side was regarded as evil, weak, and worldly, but with the Renaissance, artists began to represent the left side as the side that represented authentic human feelings and especially love. Writers including Lorenzo de' Medici, Michelangelo, and Winckelmann hailed the supreme moral and aesthetic beauty of the left side. Images of lovers foreground the left side of the body, emphasizing its refinement and sensitivity. In the late nineteenth century, with the rise of interest in the occult and in spiritualism, the left side becomes associated with the taboo and with the unconscious. James Hall's insightful discussion of left and right symbolism helps us to see how the self and the mind were perceived during these periods, and gives us a new key to understanding art in its social and intellectual context.
Sinister Street
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world. The setting is rich in period detail, and the characters portrayed are vivid and more nuanced in their actions and stories than first impressions imply. Sinister Street was an immediate critical success on publication, although not without some worry for its openness to discuss less salubrious scenes, and it was a favorite of George Orwell and John Betjeman. Compton Mackenzie had attended both St. James’ school and St. Mary’s College at Oxford and the novel is at least partly autobiographical, but for the same measure was praised as an accurate portrayal of that experience; Max Beerbohm said “There is no book on Oxford like it. It gives you the actual Oxford experience.” Although originally published in two volumes (in 1913 and 1914) for commercial reasons, the two form a single novel and have been brought back together again for this edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world. The setting is rich in period detail, and the characters portrayed are vivid and more nuanced in their actions and stories than first impressions imply. Sinister Street was an immediate critical success on publication, although not without some worry for its openness to discuss less salubrious scenes, and it was a favorite of George Orwell and John Betjeman. Compton Mackenzie had attended both St. James’ school and St. Mary’s College at Oxford and the novel is at least partly autobiographical, but for the same measure was praised as an accurate portrayal of that experience; Max Beerbohm said “There is no book on Oxford like it. It gives you the actual Oxford experience.” Although originally published in two volumes (in 1913 and 1914) for commercial reasons, the two form a single novel and have been brought back together again for this edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Sinister Scenes
Author: P.J. Bracegirdle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442426438
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Joy Wells encounters new horrors in the terrible town on the hideous hill in the final installment of the Joy of Spooking trilogy. Joy Wells is thrilled when Spooking—the terrible town on the hideous hill—is chosen as the location for a horror movie. She’s convinced the attention will finally prove that legendary author E.A. Peugeot set his creepy tales in her beloved hometown. And when a temperamental young starlet goes missing, Joy steps in to co-star alongside rock icon Teddy Danger. But Danger is delivering a terrifying performance that is entirely unscripted: Having rented a sinister old mansion in town, the aging musician has been possessed by a slumbering evil. In order to survive, Joy must turn once again to her old nemesis, Mr. Phipps. Old grudges and ancient curses collide as the true history of the terrible town is finally revealed.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442426438
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Joy Wells encounters new horrors in the terrible town on the hideous hill in the final installment of the Joy of Spooking trilogy. Joy Wells is thrilled when Spooking—the terrible town on the hideous hill—is chosen as the location for a horror movie. She’s convinced the attention will finally prove that legendary author E.A. Peugeot set his creepy tales in her beloved hometown. And when a temperamental young starlet goes missing, Joy steps in to co-star alongside rock icon Teddy Danger. But Danger is delivering a terrifying performance that is entirely unscripted: Having rented a sinister old mansion in town, the aging musician has been possessed by a slumbering evil. In order to survive, Joy must turn once again to her old nemesis, Mr. Phipps. Old grudges and ancient curses collide as the true history of the terrible town is finally revealed.
Sinister Forces—The Nine
Author: Peter Levenda
Publisher: TrineDay
ISBN: 1936296756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are examined in this book, exposing new connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism. Readers are taken from ancient American civilization and the mysterious mound builder culture to the Salem witch trials, the birth of Mormonism during a ritual of ceremonial magic by Joseph Smith, Jr., and Operations Paperclip and Bluebird. Not a work of speculative history, this expos+ is founded on primary source material and historical documents. Fascinating details are revealed, including the bizarre world of "wandering bishops" who appear throughout the Kennedy assassinations; a CIA mind control program run amok in the United States and Canada; a famous American spiritual leader who had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald in the weeks and months leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy; and the "Manson secret."
Publisher: TrineDay
ISBN: 1936296756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are examined in this book, exposing new connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism. Readers are taken from ancient American civilization and the mysterious mound builder culture to the Salem witch trials, the birth of Mormonism during a ritual of ceremonial magic by Joseph Smith, Jr., and Operations Paperclip and Bluebird. Not a work of speculative history, this expos+ is founded on primary source material and historical documents. Fascinating details are revealed, including the bizarre world of "wandering bishops" who appear throughout the Kennedy assassinations; a CIA mind control program run amok in the United States and Canada; a famous American spiritual leader who had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald in the weeks and months leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy; and the "Manson secret."