The Sundial
The Sundial

Author: Shirley Jackson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0698148207

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Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Orbin Descendants of Arion
Orbin Descendants of Arion

Author: J. F Lamantia

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1449061737

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Olvasia had been at peace for over fifteen years but that is all about to change. The neighboring country of Dredgia is once again poised to attack. Krellzak the Warlord of Dredgia is sending an army, thirty thousand strong, to destroy Olvasia's capitol city of Alstran. Included in this army are Trolls and Giants as well as the Wizard, Delvar. During this time Orbin learns that he is a descendent of an ancient tribe called the Patewa. The Patewa can produce and manipulate fire at will but only when in contact with magical horses called the Descendents of Arion. Orbin and his Uncle Horst must contact and assemble an army of Dwarves and Elves to march to Alstran to join with the Olvasians and defeat the Dredgians. The freedom of Olvasia hangs in the balance.

Browning and Wordsworth
Browning and Wordsworth

Author: John Haydn Baker

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780838640388

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"This book will be of interest to students of English literature - particularly those working on Bloomian influence theory, Wordsworth, or Browning - as well as to more senior scholars working on poetry of the Romantic and Victorian periods. The work will also interest those working on the deeply ambiguous figure of the later Browning - simultaneously the most popular poet in the country after Tennyson and one of the most uncompromisingly complex - and his vexed relationship with the reading public."--BOOK JACKET.

White Rose of Arion
White Rose of Arion

Author: L. S. Fox

Publisher: Omarleindustries

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13:

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“Don’t you think that you’ll survive. If you kill me, King Tazeus will always be behind you. He’s the most powerful man in this world, and it doesn’t matter where you go, he’ll find you.” Elson and Alina Gregov were a beautiful and vibrant young couple. filled with dreams of a brighter future; and a safe place to finally call home, away from the cold hands of the wicked King Tazeus. In order for them to escape - it meant a blood bath would have to take place. whether they would be the one in that bath or the knights that king Tazeus had sent to wipe Elson’s village clean, that was a risk Elson was willing to take to protect his wife and newborn son Arion. They had been fore warned of King Tazeus's inhumane and cruel plan but did not have enough time to leave before war broke out, soon after the message was received Alina went into labor. This was the worst pain Alina had ever experienced in her life. It lasted for quite some time. When Alina finally gave birth to Arion war was already brewing right outside their window. Follow the Gregov's as they risk it all for the life that they are certain awaits them beyond these walls that hold nothing but painful memories and the blood of the innocent on the land.

Author: Brian Trent

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-10-16

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0595342523

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A riveting character study and a haunting vision of an enlightened society on the brink of the Dark Ages.-Yale Bookstore Author Series ___________________ On a November night in Egypt, 414 A.D., one of history's most brilliant individuals was assassinated. Her name was Hypatia, teacher and scientist of the fabled Great Library of Alexandria and the last glimmer of hope before the Dark Ages. ___________________ The Roman Empire is crumbling, the fragments of the classical world regrouping in Egypt when Thasos, son of an ill-fated scholar, meets Hypatia of Alexandria. Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher at a time when women were shunned from learning, Hypatia is a daring visionary in a world about to change forever. As an insidious power-struggle erupts between church and state Hypatia finds herself at the forefront of battle, but she is not alone. Those who cherish her, who will remember her, become her allies including the powerful Governor Orestes, who keeps his consuming love for her as secret as she keeps her feelings from him. Remembering Hypatia is a vivid retelling of a now-forgotten historical tragedy, when courage stood against fear, when the legacy of the wise vanished in the dark. Author Brian Trent resurrects the ancient world's most famous metropolis and explores the final days, not just of a brilliant mind, but of a lost era. . . BASED ON THE TRUE STORY