Cassandra, the Fortune-teller
Author: Laura Monrós Gaspar
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 330
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Author: Laura Monrós Gaspar
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Holub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1442488190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Cassandra, the newest student at Mount Olympus Academy! She has an amazing talent—but will her new friends believe her? This Goddess Girls story is based on the myth of Cassandra, who has the gift of seeing the future—except no one believes her. Can Apollo, the god of prophecy, help his new crush?
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1442488182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetermined to prove that her prophecies are real, Cassandra sends special fortune cookies to Mount Olympus Academy, and her fortunes end up coming true in very unexpected ways.
Author: Chuck Calderon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 146706873X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSynopsis An Act of Love for All is about a group of highly different individuals and how they are drawn together to be determining factors in the longest and greatest war in history. As mankind struggles with their daily lives, they remain unaware of the war being fought since before time itself on earththe war between heaven and hell. The devil and his minions accumulate the souls of mankind to openly defy God as St. Michael and Heavens Angels battle the darkness so man can choose his own fate. Johnny, Susan and Mary are not only complete strangers to each other;they also live disparate and disjointed lives. Their differences, however, do not stop the very forces of the universe to bring them together and change each other. Thus begins the journey through which each of their lives unfold, entwine and end in a way that will leave them and the war changed forever.
Author: Rachel Bryant Davies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1350027189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso by J.R. Planché (1834); The Iliad; or, the Siege of Troy by Robert Brough (1858) and Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War by F.C. Burnand (1865). Beloved legend, archaeological riddle and educational staple: Homer's epic tales of the Trojan War and its aftermath were vividly reimagined in nineteenth-century Britain. Classical burlesques-exceptionally successful theatrical entertainments-continually mined the Iliad and Odyssey to lucrative comic effect. Burlesques combined song, dance and slapstick comedy with an eclectic kaleidoscope of topical allusions. From namedropping boxing legends to recasting Shakespearean combats, epic adaptations overflow with satirical commentary on politics, cultural highlights and everyday current affairs. In uncovering Homer's irreverently playful afterlife, this selection showcases burlesque's development and wide appeal. The critical introduction analyses how these plays contested the accessibility of classical antiquity and dramatic performance. Textual and literary annotations, with contemporary illustrations, illuminate the juxtaposed sources to establish these repackaged epics as indispensable tools for unlocking nineteenth-century social, cultural and political history. Resources for further study are available online.
Author: Kathryn Gossow
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Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781922200785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs the future set like concrete, or a piece of clay we can mould and change? On a remote farm in Queensland Cassie Shultz feels useless. Her perfect brother Alex has an uncanny ability to predict the weather, and the fortunes of the entire family hinge upon his forecasts. However, her own gift for prophecy remains frustratingly obscure. Attempts to help her family usually result in failure. After meeting with her new genius neighbor Athena, Cassie thinks she has unlocked the secret of her powers. But as her visions grow more vivid, she learns that the cost of honing her gift may be her sanity. With her family breaking apart, the future hurtles towards Cassie faster than she can comprehend it.
Author: Cassandra Parkin
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1785079026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA woman’s desperation over her long-missing son leads her into dark places: “A stunning, beautifully disturbing mystery.”—Foreword Reviews Five years ago, Susannah Harper’s teenage son Joel went missing without a trace. Bereft of her son, and then abandoned by her husband, Susannah tries to accept that she may never know for certain what has happened to her lost loved ones. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a Roma fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction—on Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. Soon, Susannah is drawn into a world of psychics and charlatans, half-truths and hauntings, friendships and betrayals—forcing her to confront the buried truths of her family’s past… “Parkin is best at dramatizing the tension between the rational and irrational sides of her heroine’s mind.”—Publishers Weekly “Utterly addictive.”—Louise Beech, award-winning author of I Am Dust
Author: Robert Paul Henry
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Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781637326756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRock Star and Psychic, Cassandra, shares more than a first name with the prophet Cassandra of Greek myth, as she foresees a cataclysmic event perpetrated against the United States by an enemy not capable of a military assault. While the U.S. is distracted with the aftermath of the event, yet another enemy of the U.S. attempts an invasion. A top secret reconnaissance aircraft flown by Cassandra's sister, LCMDR SAS Capelli, and a resurrected WWI battleship team up to inflict revenge and track down a kidnapped Moroccan journalist who can prove the event was not a natural cataclysm, but was a perpetrated event. Meanwhile, an unlikely ensemble of determined south west Americans and an improbable chain of events thwart an invasion attempt. Author Robert Paul Henry intertwines a cast of unlikely characters and scenarios both heroic and tragic, both horrific and humorous, and both down to earth and supernatural.
Author: Fiona Macintosh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 0192526243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely provides raw material for the performance repertoire of both major cultural institutions and emergent, experimental theatre companies. This volume represents the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions, with chapters covering not only a significant chronological span, but also ranging widely across both place and genre, analysing lyric, film, dance, and opera from Europe to Asia and the Americas. What emerges most clearly is how anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern world, together with the ancient precedent of Greek tragedy's reworking of epic material, explain its migration to the theatre. This move, though, was not without problems, as epic encountered the barriers imposed by neo-classicists, who sought to restrict serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded its broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally has rendered reinvention not only legitimate, but also deeply appropriate, opening up a range of forms and traditions within which epic themes and structures may be explored. Drawing on the expertise of specialists from the fields of classical studies, English and comparative literature, modern languages, music, dance, and theatre and performance studies, as well as from practitioners within the creative industries, the volume is able to offer an unprecedented modern and dynamic study of 'epic' content and form across myriad diverse performance arenas.
Author: Joanna Catherine Scott
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-11
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780312319434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScott weaves a spellbinging tale based loosely on the true story of one woman's incredible odyssey from a prosperous Maryland farm to that devastation of revolution-era Paris and back again. When her father forbids her from marrying a charming French emigre, Cassandra Owings elopes with Benedict van Pradelles and sails for France. Her head is filled with romantic notions, so she is shocked by the privations she encounters in war-torn France. Since Cassandra's husband hails from an aristocratic family with ties to King Louis and Marie Antoinette, they are in constant fear for their safety. Joining forces with a young Jean Lafitte to smuggle other aristos out of the country, they must eventually flee themselves. Settling in Spanish New Orleans, Cassandra and Benedict build a prosperous life for themselves until their idyllic existence is shattered by the reappearance of Lafitte. Cassandra must choose between the devoted husband she loves and the dashing pirate she desires.