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Fire From Heaven And Other Stories
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Author : Philip Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Philip Marshall
Release Date : 2000-10
Fire From Heaven And Other Stories written by Philip Marshall and has been published by Philip Marshall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with Fiction categories.
Fire From Heaven
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher: Virago
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Fire From Heaven written by Mary Renault and has been published by Virago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Fiction categories.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS 'The Alexandriad is one of the twentieth century's most unexpectedly original works of art' GORE VIDAL In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's Iliad fuelled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon's cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition. Shortlisted for the 1970 Lost Booker Prize 'This is not just a novel: it's also the best imagining we are ever likely to have of a man who tore up history. The language may seem a bit florid at first - a little too "historical novel" - but set all snobbery aside: this is wonderful, scholarly, top-flight stuff' - Emily Wilson, Guardian 'The Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century . . . it represents the pinnacle of [Renault's] career . . . Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world, drawing us into its strangeness, its violence and beauty. It's a literary conjuring trick like all historical fiction - it can only ever be an approximation of the truth. But in Renault's hands, the trick is so convincing and passionately conjured' - Antonia Senior, The Times
Fire From Heaven
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Author : Jerry Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2001-05
Fire From Heaven written by Jerry Jenkins and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
For use in schools and libraries only. Members of the Young Tribulation Force encounter danger as they are threatened by a meteor and they are at odds about their next move, which threatens to divide them as they face a new adventure.
Bow To Enter Heaven And Other Stories
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Author : Hadassah Louis
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-02-15
Bow To Enter Heaven And Other Stories written by Hadassah Louis and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-15 with Fiction categories.
A collection of literary fiction exploring the fragility of dreams. Prodding, oh so careful, just how far one must bend their back to catch a glimpse of heaven. The book includes five short stories; Bikuna has no womb - a woman with no belly button has no friends. [Zimbiro] Chenda becomes Chanda - refugee hidden in plain sight. [Bow to Enter Heaven] Umweo is a taloned god - judge of the world's sins. [Umweo's Talon] Ntalwe feasts on flesh - gory dinners on a seabed of guilt. [Secrets of the Sea] Dane, king of rocks, longs for glittered valleys - fall he must, to know his place.[The Greylings Quest] All must bow to enter heaven. The short fiction stories have elements of fantasy and some draw on real life experiences. The adventure is at least 100 pages in length.
A Ball Of Fire From Heaven And Other Supernatural Events
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Author : Sam Swain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
A Ball Of Fire From Heaven And Other Supernatural Events written by Sam Swain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
The Fires Of Heaven
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Author : Robert Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-02-16
The Fires Of Heaven written by Robert Jordan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-16 with Fiction categories.
Soon to be a major Amazon Prime TV series The fifth novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. The bonds and wards that hold the Great Lord of the Dark are slowly failing, but still his fragile prison holds. The Forsaken, immortal servants of the shadow, weave their snares and tighten their grip upon the realms of men, sure in the knowledge that their master will soon break free . . . Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, knows that he must strike at the Enemy, but his forces are divided by treachery and by ambition. Even the Aes Sedai, ancient guardians of the Light, are riven by civil war. Betrayed by his allies, pursued by his enemies and beset by the madness that comes to the male wielders of the One Power, Rand rides out to meet the foe. And the Fires of Heaven scour the world. 'Epic in every sense' Sunday Times 'With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal' New York Times '[The] huge ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre' George R. R. Martin 'A fantasy phenomenon' SFX The Wheel of Time The Eye of the World The Great Hunt The Dragon Reborn The Shadow Rising The Fires of Heaven Lord of Chaos A Crown of Swords The Path of Daggers Winter's Heart Crossroads of Twilight Knife of Dreams The Gathering Storm Towers of Midnight A Memory of Light New Spring (prequel) The Wheel of Time Companyion
By Permission Of Heaven
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Author : Adrian Tinniswood
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-31
By Permission Of Heaven written by Adrian Tinniswood and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-31 with History categories.
There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours on 2 September, a small fire broke out on the ground floor of a baker's house in Pudding Lane. In five days that small fire would devastate the third largest city in the Western world. Adrian Tinniswood's magnificent new account of the Great Fire of London explores the history of a cataclysm and its consequences. It pieces together the untold human story of the Fire and its aftermath - the panic, the search for scapegoats, and the rebirth of a city. Above all, it provides an unsurpassable recreation of what happened to schoolchildren and servants, courtiers and clergyman when the streets of London ran with fire.
Fire From Heaven
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Author : David Underdown
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2003
Fire From Heaven written by David Underdown and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with City and town life categories.
Two hundred years before Hardy disguised it as Casterbridge, Dorchester was a typical English county town, of middling size and unremarkable achievements. But on 6 August 1613 much of it was destroyed in a great conflagration, which its inhabitants regarded as a 'fire from heaven', the catalyst for the events described in this book. Over the next twenty years, a time of increasing political and religious turmoil all over Europe, Dorchester became the most religiously radical town in the kingdom. The tolerant, paternalist Elizabethan town oligarchy was quickly replaced by a group of men who had a vision of a godly community in which power was to be exercised according to religious commitment rather than wealth or rank. One of this book's most remarkable achievements is the re-creation, with an intimacy unique for an English community so distant from our own, of the lives of those who do not make it into history books. We glimpse the ordinary men and women of the town drinking and swearing, fornicating and repenting, triumphing over their neighbours or languishing in prison, striving to live up to the new ideals of their community or rejecting them with bitter anger and mocking laughter. In it subtle exploration of human motives and aspirations, in its brilliant and detailed reconstruction, this book shows how much of the past we can recover when in the hands of a master historian.
Funeral Games
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Funeral Games written by Mary Renault and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Fiction categories.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams. 'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us' - HILARY MANTEL 'The Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century . . . it represents the pinnacle of [Renault's] career . . . Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world, drawing us into its strangeness, its violence and beauty. It's a literary conjuring trick like all historical fiction - it can only ever be an approximation of the truth. But in Renault's hands, the trick is so convincing and passionately conjured' Antonia Senior, The Times
Hell Fire Other Stories
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Author : David Arthur Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Hell Fire Other Stories written by David Arthur Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Science fiction, American categories.