The desire to preserve to future ages the memory of past achievements is a universal human instinct, as witness the clay tablets of old Chaldea, the hieroglyphs of the obelisks, our countless thousands of manuscripts and printed volumes, and the gossiping old story-teller of the village or the backwoods cabin. The reliability of the record depends chiefly on the truthfulness of the recorder and the adequacy of the method employed. In Asia, the cradle of civilization, authentic history goes back thousands of years; in Europe the record begins much later, while in America the aboriginal narrative, which may be considered as fairly authentic, is all comprised within a thousand years. The peculiar and elaborate systems by means of which the more cultivated ancient nations of the south recorded their histories are too well known to students to need more than a passing notice here. It was known that our own tribes had various ways of depicting their mythology, their totems, or isolated facts in the life of the individual or nation, but it is only within a few years that it was even suspected that they could have anything like continuous historical records, even in embryo. The fact is now established, however, that pictographic records covering periods of from sixty to perhaps two hundred years or more do, or did, exist among several tribes, and it is entirely probable that every leading mother tribe had such a record of its origin and wanderings, the pictured narrative being compiled by the priests and preserved with sacred care through all the shifting vicissitudes of savage life until lost or destroyed in the ruin that overwhelmed the native governments at the coming of the white man. Several such histories are now known, and as the aboriginal field is still but partially explored, others may yet come to light.
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We're all searching for "the good life." Too often, however, we encounter discouragement, failure, broken relationships, guilt, and dashed dreams, all of which leave us yearning for more. In this book, Tim Savage presents a renewed vision of life by examining the fullest life ever lived: the life of Jesus Christ. Savage invites us to tap into that life—and experience the riches of the joy, satisfaction, and purpose offered to us in Christ.
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David Almond is now known around the world as the author of the novels Skellig, Kit's Wilderness and The Savage. His first two books – Sleepless Nights (1985) and A Kind of Heaven (1997) – were published by Iron Press, a selection of which appears in Nesting alongside two previously unpublished tales. The stories draw deeply from the Tyneside estate of Almond's childhood, exploring the themes that would inform his later work, and displaying all the rhythm, lyricism and drive for which he is acclaimed today. "A master storyteller." The Independent "There is nobody quite like Almond writing in adults' or children's fiction today. A writer of visionary, Blakean intensity." The Times "David Almond's books are strange, unsettling wild things. They are, like all great literature, beyond classification." The Guardian David Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. His many awards include the Whitbread Children's Book Award (twice), the Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. My Name is Nina, the prequel to Skellig, was published in 2010. His books have been translated into over 40 languages, and adapted for both stage and screen. He now lives in Northumberland. This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.
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Conan, Dr. Strange, dessen neue Flamme Elektra, Wolverine, Black Widow, Hellstorm, Dr. Voodoo und der Punisher ziehen in neue Schlachten gegen den bösen Zauberer Kulan Gath! Diesmal müssen sie es sogar mit einem Drachen aus Asgard aufnehmen und werden von Magik, Black Knight und Juggernaut unterstützt.
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The short story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with "the first men who told their stories round the savage campfire." The short story is today our most common literary product. It is read by everyone. Not every boy or girl will read novels after leaving school, but every boy or girl is certain to read short stories. It is important in the high school to guide taste and appreciation in short story reading, so that the reading of days when school life is over will be healthful and encouraging. Here is a collection that is entirely modern. The authors represented are among the leading authors of the day, the stories are principally stories of present-day life, the themes are themes of present-day thought. The students who read this book will be more awake to the present, and will be better citizens of today. The great number of stories presented has given opportunity to illustrate different types of short story writing. Contents: Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer James Joyce. Araby Ivan Turgenev. First Love Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde H.G. Wells. The Magic Shop W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow Henry James. Daisy Miller H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades G.K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross
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Conans Abenteuer in der Marvel-Gegenwart! Während der finstere Symbionten-Gott Knull die Erde angreift, wollen Conan und Deadpool den Hellfire Club ausrauben – und kriegen Stress mit den X-Men! Zudem prallt der barbarische Cimmerier mit dem Symbionten-Schwert auf Spider-Man, Rhino und Ghost Rider.
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This carefully crafted ebook: "DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Captain Singleton Memoirs of a Cavalier A Journal of the Plague Year Colonel Jack Moll Flanders Roxana The Consolidator A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal Dickory Cronke Historical Works: A General History of the Pyrates The History of the Pyrates The King of Pirates The Pirate Gow The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard The Life of Mr. Richard Savage The Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton A Short Narrative of His Grace John, D. of Marlborough The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell The History of the Devil The Storm Atlantis Major London in 1731 Travel Writings: A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain New Voyage Round the World From London to Land's End Poems: The True-Born Englishman Hymn to the Pillory Caledonia Essays: Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe An Essay upon Projects The Complete English Tradesman Conjugal Lewdness Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Second Thoughts are Best The Shortest Way with the Dissenters Augusta Triumphans And What if the Pretender Should Come? An Answer to a Question that Nobody Thinks of An Appeal to Honour and Justice The Education of Women A Humble Proposal to the People of England The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover ... Criticism: Robinson Crusoe by Arthur Quiller-Couch Robinson Crusoe by W. P. Trent Biographies: The Life of Daniel De Foe Daniel Defoe The Earlier Life of Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English writer, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
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Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for 'gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law. The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes and London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged – and justice, as Berkowitz shows – rarely had anything to do with it.
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