Author: Joseph Emerson Worcester
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1874

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Author: John Ogilvie
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: Jay K. Price
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785891529
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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If you travel through Earth’s heavenly blue sky, out into the velvety black darkness of space, leaving behind this galaxy of planets and its flaming red sunstar, you’ll eventually reach a small constellation named Starganzia, with its pale pink sun and two planets, Marzipan and Plana p’Doolyansis... When Marco, Suzy and Jo arrive at the Schloss Montrosa, a castle full of magic, mystery and microchips, to stay with their secret scientist uncle Professor Egbert Able for their summer holidays, they very quickly get more than they bargained for! They don’t realise that the strange riddle they find in the Schloss library will lure them on a quest with a mission to save the Universe. There are many problems to be solved, not least to find their uncle who has been abducted by an evil Marzipan, and to find the last clue of the riddle – a silver horse. But have they both been hidden far from sight within a black hole? Eventually, the quest commences with a hair-raising journey full of shocking surprises. It leads them to a crazy world of aliens and monsters that almost brings about their undoing. Worse still, when they finally reach their goal in the city of Spondoola, they are imprisoned by its king, the vicious, greedy Spondoolix. The race is on to bring their uncle home in one piece, but have they underestimated who they’re up against..? Starganzia is a thrilling tale of outer-space adventures that will appeal to future space explorers aged 7-11.

Author: Gordon A. Tapper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135888736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine That Sings focuses on four texts in which Crane's preoccupation with the body reaches its apoge. Tapper treats Voyages, The Wine Merchant, and Possessions as a triptych of erotic poems in which Crane plays out alternative resolutions to the dialectic between purity and defilement, a conceptual dynamic which Tapper argues is central to both Crane's poetics of difficulty and his representations of homosexual desire. Tapper concentrates on the three sections of The Bridge, most concerned with recuperating animality: 'National Winter Garden,' 'The Dance,' and 'Cape Hatteras.'

Author: Acadia Mills, Lawrence, Mass
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465527419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18996

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When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the ballads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with EuropeanMärchen, or children’s tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more recent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical example is the Song of Lamech in Genesis—“I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt.” Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In Kidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised dirges, like Helen; lullabies, like the lullaby of Danae in Simonides, and flower songs, as in modern Italy. Every function of life, war, agriculture, the chase, had its appropriate magical and mimetic dance and song, as in Finland, among Red Indians, and among Australian blacks. “The deeds of men” were chanted by heroes, as by Achilles; stories were told in alternate verse and prose; girls, like Homer’s Nausicaa, accompanied dance and ball play, priests and medicine-men accompanied rites and magical ceremonies by songs. These practices are world-wide, and world-old. The thoroughly popular songs, thus evolved, became the rude material of a professional class of minstrels, when these arose, as in the heroic age of Greece. A minstrel might be attached to a Court, or a noble; or he might go wandering with song and harp among the people. In either case, this class of men developed more regular and ample measures. They evolved the hexameter; the laisse of the Chansons de Geste; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece. The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance. The metre of improvised verse changed into the artistic lyric. These lyric forms were fixed, in many cases, by the art of writing. But poetry did not remain solely in professional and literary hands. The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Léon Gautier’s Introduction to his Epopées Françaises) sang in Court and Camp. The poorer, less regular brethren of the art, harped and played conjuring tricks, in farm and grange, or at street corners. The foreign newer metres took the place of the old alliterative English verse. But unprofessional men and women did not cease to make and sing.

Author: South Kensington Museum
Publisher:
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Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Carol Marinelli
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488045267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 709

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Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: THE SICILIAN’S SURPRISE LOVE-CHILD One Night With Consequences By Carol Marinelli Innocent Aurora is everything tycoon Nico shouldn’t want. But even his famous control isn’t a match for their combustible chemistry… Then Nico discovers their encounter has left her pregnant! Will Aurora’s revelation give this Sicilian a reason to risk everything? CINDERELLA’S SCANDALOUS SECRET Secret Heirs of Billionaires By Melanie Milburne Isla is carrying famous hotelier Rafe’s baby! No-one can know—the last thing she wants is to make the headlines. But when Rafe learns about her pregnancy, he’s intent on marrying her! CLAIMING MY BRIDE OF CONVENIENCE By Kate Hewitt My terms were clear: money in exchange for her becoming Mrs Matteo Dias—on paper at least. But as Daisy the shy waitress I married reveals a spirited side it becomes high time I claimed my convenient bride! VIRGIN PRINCESS’S MARRIAGE DEBT By Pippa Roscoe At a Paris ball, Princess Sofia meets a man she never thought she’d see again—billionaire Theo. Now, as their chemistry reignites, Theo creates a scandal to finally claim Sofia’s hand—in marriage! Be sure to collect Harlequin® Presents’ October 2019 Box Set 2 of 2! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.

Author: Roger North
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521024914
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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A treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches, first published in 1990.

Author: Luo Guanzhong
Publisher: XinXii
ISBN: 3959262868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide...” The Han dynasty is falling, the rebels and warlords fight each other for the hegemony in China. Who will bring peace to these lands? Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is one of the four great Chinese classical novels. Discover it in this new edition with illustrations from MIng and Qing dynasties and the whole text in Simplified Chinese. Compare it using the Table of Contents!