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The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by English writer Eric Rucker Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and partly reminiscent of Norse sagas. The work is slightly related to Eddisons later Zimiamvian Trilogy, and collectively they are sometimes referred to as the Zimiamvian series.

In "The Worlds Great Men of Music," Harriette Brower presents a rich tapestry of biographical sketches that delve into the lives and contributions of renowned composers and musicians from various epochs. Her narrative style is engaging and accessible, combining scholarly insight with a journalistic flair that captures the readers imagination. Structured around key figures such as Beethoven, Mozart, and Wagner, Brower not only documents their artistic milestones but also explores the sociocultural contexts that shaped their creations, providing a holistic understanding of their music and its enduring impact. Harriette Brower, an accomplished writer and musicologist, navigated both the literary and musical landscapes of her time with finesse. A contemporary of the early 20th century, her passion for music was forged through direct engagement with the arts as well as her connections within music circles. This book reflects her belief in musics transformative power and her desire to share the stories behind the legends, influenced by her experiences in a world rapidly evolving in terms of artistic expression. For those seeking to deepen their appreciation for classical music and its towering figures, Browers "The Worlds Great Men of Music" serves as an essential resource. It illuminates not just the music itself, but also the personal struggles, triumphs, and legacies of the great minds behind the notes, making it a compelling read for scholars and enthusiasts alike.

In a universe teeming with predatory life, this story examines a more realistic view of what advanced alien civilizations might truly look likeand how they might interact with us. At its core is the ongoing struggle between predators and prey: plant-eaters versus those who survive by consuming other beings. The story begins with Peter, a human man, meeting Sil-ard-tna-she, a rogue clone warrior and the galaxy s most wantednot for crimes, but for seeking her own freedom. Her relentless pursuit of independence puts her on a collision course with those hunting her, leading her to find Peterand ultimately, us. This opening introduces a vast galactic space opera, focusing initially on the early years of the IPT, the characters journeys, pivotal moments like the birth of Peter and Sil-ards daughter, the awakening of her battle AI, and Linda, Peter s trusted employee, who uncovers shocking truths about her boss and his mysterious new wife. It sets the stage for an epic adventure of rebellion, self-discovery, and the fight for independence.

In Clifden, the chief coast town of Connemara, there is a house at the end of a triangle which the two streets of the town form, the front windows of which look straight down the beautiful harbour and bay, whose waters stretch out beyond the islands which are scattered along the coast and, with the many submerged reefs, make the entrance so difficult...

A natural pause appears to have come in the career of Mr. H.G. Wells. After so many years of travelling up and down through time and space, familiarizing himself with all the various parts of the solar system and presenting himself imaginatively at all the various geological epochs, from the Stone Age to the end of the world, he has for good and all domesticated himself in his own planet and point of time. This gradual process of slowing down, so to speak, had been evident from the moment of his first appearance. The most obvious fact about his romances of science, considered as a series, is that each one more nearly approached the epoch in which we live, and the realities of this epoch. From the year A.D. 802, 701, witnessed in his first romance by the Time Traveller, we found ourselves at last in the presence of a decade only so remote as that of the war which has now befallen Europe. A similar tendency in his novels has been equally marked. The possibilities of science and socialism have received a diminishing attention relatively beside the possibilities of human reaction to science and socialism. It is individual men and women, and the motives and personalities of individual men and women, which now concern him. Still retaining the entire planet as the playground of his ideas, still upholding science and socialism as his essential heroes, he has been driven by experience to approach these things through human nature as it is. In a recent essay he has told us not to expect any more dramatic novelties: for the present at any rate our business must be to make science and socialism feel at home. Whether or not this may stand as a general diagnosis of our epoch, it is a remarkable confession with regard to his own place in it. For it signifies nothing less than that he has reached the limit of his own circle of ideas and finished his own pioneering, and that his work for the future will be to relate the discoveries of his youth with human experience...

Nicolas Roeg is one of the most distinctive and influential film-makers of his generation. The generation of film-makers who define contemporary movie-making - Danny Boyle, Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight), James Marsh (Man on Wire), and Guillermo Del Toro (Pans Labyrinth), all acknowledge their debt to the work of Nicolas Roeg. Roeg began as a cameraman, working for such masters as Francois Truffaut and David Lean. His explosive debut as a director with Performance, established an approach to film-making that was unconventional and ever-changing, creating works such as Dont Look Now, The Man Who Fell toEarth, Bad Timing, Insignificance, and, more recently, Puffball. Having now reached eighty years of age, Roeg has decided to pass on to the next generations, the wealth of wisdom and experience he has garnered over fifty years of film-making.

Award-winning poet, journalist, teacher and lecturer, Jackie Wills shares her experience of more than 20 years running workshops, and offers her personal insight into what works and why. In different settings business, working in the community and schools she outlines the pitfalls and risks in a wide-ranging handbook that no writing workshop leader should be without.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It was serialised from May 1886 to April 1887 in Macmillans Magazine[1] and published in three volumes in 1887.[2] It is one of his series of Wessex novels.If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget ee; for you was a good man, and did good things!Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardys woodland story. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers. When the mysterious Felice Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked. Hardys powerful novel depictsindividuals in thrall to desire and the natural law that motivates them.

Herbert George"H. G."Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.Wellss earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels like Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion, when they were published, that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens,[10] but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, in 1934, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK

"The Wonderful Chance" features Rudolph Valentino in a compelling silent drama that showcases his ability to navigate the dual worlds of crime and redemption. This film tells the story of a thief who seizes a serendipitous opportunity to turn his life around, highlighting themes of second chances and the transformative power of love and honesty. Valentinos dynamic performance as the troubled protagonist offers a glimpse into the depth and range of his acting capabilities, captivating audiences with his portrayal of complex emotional landscapes.

The short story does not simply differ from the novel (or novella) in length, although brevity is one of its defining characteristics. It does not have the development of characters and narrative that you find in the longer forms of fiction. It must offer the reader a different experience. In its purest form, it is like a memory recalled, often no more than an incident or encounter where it may seem that little or nothing happened. Its essence lies in the detail: a single word or sentence may create an image or feeling that opens up a wider world left to the readers imagination. Little may occur dramatically in a short story, but often by the end something has changed significantly, and a greater understanding has been reached by one or more of the characters - and the reader...

In this important new novel, Miss Johnston goes back to the field of some of her earlier successes -- the spacious Elizabethan times. The story opens in the death chamber of the great Queen, and with that uncanny power of historic resurrection of which Miss Johnston is master, the reader is made to feel the great issues that are hanging in the balance, -- issues of thought and faith within England itself, issues of imperialistic destiny in the great colonies overseas. The two chief characters are Joan Heron, a beautiful girl of strong, original nature, and Dr. Aderhold, a thinker in advance of his time. As the plot develops, not only is Aderhold suspected of atheism and unholy practices in the black art, but Joan is accused of witchcraft. They are arrested, and sentenced to death, but escape, and take ship for Virginia. As the voyage progresses, her sex and identity are suspected, and she and Aderhold are cast adrift in an open boat. This catastrophe, however, is not final, and in the Bahamas and later in England, the story comes to its impressive ending. As a historic picture, the story is exceptionally strong, and perhaps the impression that will live longest is that of the marvelous Elizabethan world of adventure, controversy, passion, and vital personality.

"The Winters Tale" is a play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 160911 and produced at the Globe Theatre in London.One of Shakespeares final plays, "The Winters Tale" is a romantic comedy with elements of tragedy. The plot was based on a work of prose fiction called "Pandosto" (1588) by Robert Greene. The play opens with Leontes, the king of Sicilia, entertaining his old friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. Leontes jealously mistakes the courtesy between his wife, Hermione, and Polixenes as a sign of Hermiones adultery with him. In a fit of jealousy, he attempts to have Polixenes killed, but Polixenes escapes with Camillo, Leontes faithful counselor, whom Leontes has sent to kill him. The pregnant Hermione is then publicly humiliated and thrown in jail, despite her protests of innocence. When the child, a girl, is born, Leontes rejects the child out of hand and gives her over to Antigonus, the husband of Hermiones attendant Paulina. The child, Perdita, is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes old friend, Polixenes. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.(Source: britannica.com)

The Winters Tale William Shakespeare - The Winters Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeares late romances.

CAMILLOI think this coming summer the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.ARCHIDAMUSWherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed,CAMILLOBeseech you,ARCHIDAMUSVerily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificencein so rareI know not what to say.We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.CAMILLOYou pay a great deal too dear for whats given freely.ARCHIDAMUSBelieve me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (1879-1940) was an English writer who wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. His most famous book is King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure (1916), which is set in India under British Occupation. He wrote many other books and stories, including Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders (1918) and a number of stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar. In 1919, Mundy serialized On the Trail of Tippoo Tib, a novel about treasure hunting and ivory poaching in East Africa, which Mundy always claimed was the most autobiographical of his novels. His other works include Rung Ho! (1914), The Winds of the World (1915), The Ivory Trail (1919), Told in the East (1920), The Eye of Zeitoon (1920), The Guns of the Gods (1921), The Bubble Reputation (1923), Caves of Terror (1922), and The Lion of Petra (1922).

The Wind in the Willows is a childrens novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Cookham, Berkshire, where he had been brought up and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book donamely, as one of the phrases from the book says, "simply messing about in boats"and wrote down the bed-time stories he had been telling his son Alistair. In 1909, Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had "read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends". The novel was in its thirty-first printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted a part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. In 2003, The Wind in the Willows was listed at number 16 on the BBCs survey The Big Read (font: Wikipedia)

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment - river, sun, wind - and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which "moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible."

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment - river, sun, wind - and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which "moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible."

The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans - achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of the will to power; however, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsches work, leaving its interpretation open to debate.