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Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892369003
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Printed in black and white, the engravings are works of art that illustrate various descriptions in the letters. The text includes a brief description of the eruption of the volcano, concise biographies of Tacitus and of both Plinys, and a summary of how the texts of the two letters have survived until today.
Author: Takahito Oosaki
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN: 1645054217
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Zane, Kuku, and their new demon sidekick Hellheit have been struggling to become Wiztube stars--no matter how many videos they upload of their adventures, they just can't seem to get clicks. But all that is put on hold when a huge battle erupts between the Knights' Order and the Demon Army! Can Zane use this conflict to finally become an internet celebrity? Find out in the epic conclusion to The Brave-Tuber!
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Author: Arthur Shearly Cripps
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Author: Mary Hocking
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509819657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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When Matthew Vereker arrives from the American Mid-West on a year's exchange as vicar of All Hallows on Helmsley Island, he thinks there are no people in England, but only 'members of classes dying behind their stockades'. He soon finds that the reality is more complicated. Helmsley Island, once known as Smugglers' Island, is cluttered with smart bungalows, decaying cottages, day trippers, squatters, archaeologists, agitators - and the ghosts of nuns who walk in the grounds of the old priory. Besides the normal if varied manifestations of Christianity there are the followers of the Ancient People, antedating Christianity, who dance in the nude at nights. As summer moves into winter Vereker strives to cope with a variety of problems; his patchwork parish; his young daughter, Nan; Zoe and Tudor Lindsay, cousins and once lovers; Milo, the strange vital boy who looks for gods and finds one inside himself . . . There are some problems that arose before we came on the scene and will continue after we have left, but one problem perhaps Vereker can solve: his own. When the time approaches for him to return to America he knows that things will never be the same for him again.
Author: Norman Manea
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802133717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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A collection of short stories stemming from the Romanian author's detention in a Nazi concentration camp as a child evokes a sense of the horror and absurdity of war and Romanian politics.
Author: Mary Hocking
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509819568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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When President Aluwawa purges his country of foreign helpers Daniel Kerr, a micro-biologist, returns to Yeominster, feeling displaced and dispossessed. Yet he has a family there. His wife, Erica, more used to his absence than his presence, and two children, Emma and Giles. But family togetherness is short-lived, for Daniel has a gift for disruption, and it is a relief when he is posted to a research unit at Brocklehurst. But Brocklehurst is not his scene and he resigns on grounds of conscience, thus providing the press with a new sensation. Finding a job teaching at his son's school, he becomes entangled in a controversy over a bypass, and when the Yeominster Conservation Society fails in its object, the schoolboy revolutionaries take over traffic control and for one memorable day the life of Yeominster is turned upside down. In a manner which is thoughtful, lucid and humorous, Mary Hocking relates personal problems and private causes to social problems and public causes, neither easily coped with, or avoided.
Author: Victoria Cross
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Author: Kaberi Chatterjee
Publisher: Blackbuck Publication
ISBN: 1628400706
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Languages : en
Pages : 265
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When his brother's newly-wedded young wife, Tuli, falls in love with Neil, it is considered blasphemy in the conservative Bengali household. With his own emotions and sense of justice congesting him, Neil decides to run off from the cataclysm. Aimless, rootless, he is soon drawn into untoward methods of survival and self-destruction. But then he learns that Tuli is expecting his child. This is when Neil decides to turn around and take life by the throat. And then, life decides to slip out his hands and Gods decide Neil must die.
