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For the first time, the story of Leonida's wife, the hero of Thermopilai, recreated according to Herodotus's texts. This is a very strong woman, educated, emancipated. She lives in Sparta 2500 years ago and fights for women's rights. She lives during the wars between Greeks and Persians and she'll lose her husband in the war, but her bravery and love for the homeland will always remain.
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The Book of Souls A "Dorian Gray" story about the power of imagesFor generations, Elsie's family has owned a photography studio. Elsie loves the old cameras and the historic photographs; she is particularly taken with the portrait of the young lord Aidan Storm. Every now and then, she even tells the picture about her worries. What she doesn't know is that he can actually hear her. When Aidan's photo disappears from the album one day, Elsie is inconsolable. But then the young lord suddenly reappears. On Instagram, of all places - and then she meets him in real life.Aidan Storm was born in 1873 and there is a centuries-old curse on his family. With every newborn, a new ghost is born into the world. Aidan sets out to break the curse and recapture the spirits, using the new technology of photography to help him. Until Aidan himself gets captured in a photo that is found 120 years later by John's great-great-granddaughter Elsie. But who has summoned Aidan and the other ghosts that suddenly haunt modern Edinburgh back to reality? And why?Told in two time levels, the story alternates between the perspective of Elsie in modern-day Edinburgh and Aidan at the end of the 19th century. Like in Emma and the Forgotten Book, Mechthild Gläser takes inspiration from a 19th-century classic and brings the portrait of a young man quickly to life, in a modern-day story about the power of images. • Urban fantasy story combined with a tender, humorous love story• The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children• Set in picturesque Edinburgh • By internationally successful Mechthild Gläser (SERAPH Fantasy Award), who has been published in 14 languages
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This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault. ;
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.
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Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on 'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee. ;
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Jack Price ist Drogengroßhändler, aber nicht irgendeiner, sondern der beste: cleverer, smarter und intelligenter als alle seine Konkurrenten zusammen. Mr. Cool himself. Und er hat sich bislang noch vor jeder unliebsamen Überraschung geschützt. Als man jedoch eine Nachbarin, die unter seinem Penthouse wohnt, ermordet auffindet, wird er nervös. Sie war zwar eine garstige alte Frau, mit der er nichts zu tun hatte. Was aber, wenn dieser anscheinend sinnlose Mord eine Botschaft seiner Gegenspieler an ihn war?Er zieht Erkundungen ein und erfährt, dass die »Seven Demons« auf ihn angesetzt sind – eine exklusive, hocheffiziente »Bruderschaft«, die bösartigsten, gnadenlosesten Hitmen überhaupt. Sieben absolut tödliche Spezialisten, die nie aufgeben und noch nie einen Auftrag vermasselt haben. Aber Price nimmt den Kampf an und setzt damit eine Kette unfassbarer Ereignisse in Gang ...
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Jack Price ist Drogengroßhändler, aber nicht irgendeiner, sondern der beste: cleverer, smarter und intelligenter als alle seine Konkurrenten zusammen. Mr. Cool himself. Und er hat sich bislang noch vor jeder unliebsamen Überraschung geschützt. Als man jedoch eine Nachbarin, die unter seinem Penthouse wohnt, ermordet auffindet, wird er nervös. Sie war zwar eine garstige alte Frau, mit der er nichts zu tun hatte. Was aber, wenn dieser anscheinend sinnlose Mord eine Botschaft seiner Gegenspieler an ihn war?Er zieht Erkundungen ein und erfährt, dass die »Seven Demons« auf ihn angesetzt sind – eine exklusive, hocheffiziente »Bruderschaft«, die bösartigsten, gnadenlosesten Hitmen überhaupt. Sieben absolut tödliche Spezialisten, die nie aufgeben und noch nie einen Auftrag vermasselt haben. Aber Price nimmt den Kampf an und setzt damit eine Kette unfassbarer Ereignisse in Gang ...
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