"The pampered princess became his lowest concubine!" You killed my wife! You owe me this! " The man sneered, shaming her like a crazed demon ... In order to avenge his wife, he actually killed her royal brother and destroyed her country. And now, he still wanted her love?! What a joke! "Hahaha ..." The woman laughed heartily while tears streamed down her face. "My dear concubine, you've already fallen in love with me, haven't you?" The man smiled complacently. Love? Do you mean this? " The woman stabbed the dagger towards her chest, while blood flowed out from the man's body ...
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Phoenix Moorhaven liked things just so. He likes his house running in perfect order, his coffee with a bit of blood and his manservant untouched by anyone—ever. When Declan decides to start dating Moor scrambles to intercede. After all messing with Declan could upset the pristine organization of his household. Declan has pined for Moor long enough. Determined to have a life of his own Declan accepts a meeting with a blind date. However vampire masters and dating don’t mix and at the end of the night he’ll see a side of Moorhaven he never expected.
With grand historical sweep, this self-contained opening volume of Osamu Tezuka's acclaimed Phoenix saga is an epic account of the human spirit in a time of chaos and warfare, where would-be warrior Nagi and his crew struggle against the elements, invaders, and history itself. -- VIZ Media
In this chilling science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, rich and powerful men wage the ultimate war "to end all wars". Published in 1914, The World Set Free was ahead of its time, telling the story of how newly-acquired nuclear weapons led to warfare between nations. In the book, Wells explores how social and moral dilemmas can result in self-destruction and chaos before eventually leading to solutions that create a unique utopia. Even today, this classic novel speaks to the challenges society faces due to the rise of science and technology. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a wonderful collection which is perfect for any home library.
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Nussey (In Christ There Is No East or West and 1992 Black Warrior Award winner) delivers an enigmatic collection of stories that, at their best, balance the tough, everyday concerns of the Raymond Carver school with a delicate descriptive and emotional sensibility. Set in a flattened domestic landscape between urban sophistication and rural grotesque, Nussey's characters meander through food courts at the mall and hang around the house a lot, struck all the while by minor epiphanies, as frequent as "the soft showers that seemed to come down in odd dashes... like some kind of April code." Despite these writerly touches, Nussey sometimes has trouble bringing his characters' lives to the page, and Rosemary, the femme fatale who appears in three of the collection's eight stories, never lives up to the fascination that her various boyfriends feel for her. One has the sense that Nussey is writing around, rather than about, the sexual ambivalence that destroys her love affairs. But even these stories share with the much sadder, more moving "The Art of the Possible" Nussey's desperate, eloquent query: "How to make any relationship work when nobody could agree on the meaning of the big feelings, the big occasions of the heart.
Essays on post World War II Japanese fiction writers. Novelists who participated in literary activity after 1945 shaped the direction of postwar Japanese fiction. Freed from censorship, significant war literature was written in the decade after the conflict. Established writers were able to resume work interrupted by the war and demands to write propaganda. Female authors would emerge to define the new role of their gender in this post-war period.
