Author: Abhithakuchalambal
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482819651
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The foundation of this collection of stories and essays is set close to Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu. The stories explore aspects of life and landscape: e.g. local culture, ecology, personal relationships, community politics, womens issues - all told from the perspective of an outsider living on the inside.
Tales Told to the Tooth Goddess
Author: Abhithakuchalambal
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482819651
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The foundation of this collection of stories and essays is set close to Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu. The stories explore aspects of life and landscape: e.g. local culture, ecology, personal relationships, community politics, womens issues - all told from the perspective of an outsider living on the inside.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482819651
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The foundation of this collection of stories and essays is set close to Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu. The stories explore aspects of life and landscape: e.g. local culture, ecology, personal relationships, community politics, womens issues - all told from the perspective of an outsider living on the inside.
Myths of Hellas, Or, Greek Tales, Told in German by Professor C. Witt
Author: Karl Witt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Old Greek Folk-stories Told Anew
Author: Josephine Preston Peabody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Tales of Ancient India
Author: J.A.B. van Buitenen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623018X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"This admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world in which the tales are set is one which placed a premium upon slickness and guile as aids to success. . . . Merchants, aristocrats, Brahmins, thieves and courtesans mingle with vampires, demi-gods and the hierarchy of heaven in a series of lively or passionate adventures. The sources of the individual stories are clearly indicated; the whole treatment is scholarly without being arid."—The Times Literary Supplement "Fourteen tales from India, newly translated with a terse and vibrant effectiveness. These tales will appeal to any reader who enjoys action, suspense, characterization, and suspension of disbelief in the supernatural."—The Personalist
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623018X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"This admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world in which the tales are set is one which placed a premium upon slickness and guile as aids to success. . . . Merchants, aristocrats, Brahmins, thieves and courtesans mingle with vampires, demi-gods and the hierarchy of heaven in a series of lively or passionate adventures. The sources of the individual stories are clearly indicated; the whole treatment is scholarly without being arid."—The Times Literary Supplement "Fourteen tales from India, newly translated with a terse and vibrant effectiveness. These tales will appeal to any reader who enjoys action, suspense, characterization, and suspension of disbelief in the supernatural."—The Personalist
In the Hand of the Goddess
Author: Tamora Pierce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442427647
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442427647
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal.
Tales Told to the Tooth Goddess
Author: Abhithakuchalambal
Publisher: Partridge India
ISBN: 9781482819663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The foundation of this collection of stories and essays is set close to Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu. The stories explore aspects of life and landscape: e.g. local culture, ecology, personal relationships, community politics, women's issues - all told from the perspective of an outsider living on the inside.
Publisher: Partridge India
ISBN: 9781482819663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The foundation of this collection of stories and essays is set close to Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu. The stories explore aspects of life and landscape: e.g. local culture, ecology, personal relationships, community politics, women's issues - all told from the perspective of an outsider living on the inside.
Goddess of Filth
Author: V. Castro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951971038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. But we weren't witches. We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school."One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely-smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes begins to suspect it's something else-something far more ancient and powerful. As Father Moreno's obsession with Fernanda grows, Lourdes enlists the help of her "bruja Craft crew" and a professor, Dr. Camacho, to understand what is happening to her friend in this unholy tale of possession-gone-right.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951971038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. But we weren't witches. We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school."One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely-smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes begins to suspect it's something else-something far more ancient and powerful. As Father Moreno's obsession with Fernanda grows, Lourdes enlists the help of her "bruja Craft crew" and a professor, Dr. Camacho, to understand what is happening to her friend in this unholy tale of possession-gone-right.
The Serpent's Teeth
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964367
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In a world of gods and monsters, nothing is as it seems. When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chained to a rock; people are transformed into owls, frogs, even mountains; a boy falls tragically in love with his own reflection. Enter a universe where love is cruel, men are destroyed by the gods and treachery is paid for in blood ...
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964367
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In a world of gods and monsters, nothing is as it seems. When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chained to a rock; people are transformed into owls, frogs, even mountains; a boy falls tragically in love with his own reflection. Enter a universe where love is cruel, men are destroyed by the gods and treachery is paid for in blood ...
Reynard the Fox
Author: Kenneth Varty
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.
Four Roads Cross
Author: Max Gladstone
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765379422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world's fiercest necromantic firm--and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Craftwork world"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765379422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world's fiercest necromantic firm--and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Craftwork world"--Amazon.com.