Marius and Delia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marius and Delia write by D. M. . This book was released on 2021-05-31. Marius and Delia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A masterpiece of early modern prose fiction, Marius & Delia was lost to readers for 300 years. Published without an imprint in the mid-1690s, the title page of Marius & Delia identified the author only by the initials D. M. A handwritten attribution on the only known surviving copy credited the work to Deborah Milton, daughter of poet and polemicist John Milton. Marius & Delia draws together elements from picaresque fiction, Cervantes, Jonson and Restoration comedy to create a unified narrative centered upon a father-daughter relationship, played out against a realistic backdrop of late 17th century political turmoil—featuring plots and counterplots, peopled by con artists, counterfeiters, alchemists, would-be regicides and "all-cause rogues." This transformative and subversive text exerted a powerful, if cryptic, influence upon the subsequent development of the English novel. Its critiques of gender politics and dominant ideologies—the discourses of patriarchy, property and accumulation—forced it underground in its own time, while establishing its relevance to ours. This edition includes the complete text of Deborah Milton’s novel, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction, explanatory notes and glossary, as well as other ancillary materials pertinent to its textual history. Essays by five leading scholars explore its significance and offer essential insights to its interpretation.
Sailor to a Siren
Sailor to a Siren - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailor to a Siren write by Zoë Sumra. This book was released on 2015-07-17. Sailor to a Siren available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sailor to a Siren is a space opera novel with significant nods to the gangland thriller genre. When Connor and Logan Cardwain, a gangster’s lieutenants, steal a shipment of high-grade narcotics on the orders of their boss, Connor dreams of diverting the profits and setting up in business for himself. His plans encounter a hurdle in the form of Éloise Falavière, Logan’s former girlfriend, who has been hired by an interplanetary police force’s vice squad. Logan wants a family; Éloise wants to stop the drugs shipment from being sent to her home planet; Connor wants to gain independence without angering his boss. All of their plans are derailed, though, when they discover that the shipment was hiding a much deadlier secret – the prototype of a tiny superweapon powerful enough to destabilise galactic peace. Crime lords, corrupt officials and interstellar magicians soon begin pursuing them, and Connor, Logan and Éloise realise they have to identify and confront the superweapon’s smuggler in order to survive. But, when one by one their friends begin to betray them, their self-imposed mission transforms from difficult to near-impossible. Sailor to a Siren is a great debut from Zoë Sumra and establishes her as a name to watch in epic space opera. The depth of her characters, the breadth of her world-building, the ambition and longevity of her story-arcs spanning multiple generations of families, all make this a first step in what is likely to be a fascinating and enthralling universe. This is a universe that has more in common with The Galactic Milieu, Firefly or Babylon 5 than with Star Trek or Star Wars. These are stories that Zoë has been thinking about, preparing and crafting for many years; stories that deserve to be told, from a story-teller who deserves to be heard.
Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times
Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times write by Gabriela I. Prostean. This book was released on . Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pater the Classicist
Pater the Classicist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pater the Classicist write by Charles Martindale. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Pater the Classicist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential historical novel set in ancient Rome, Marius the Epicurean, and a variety of short stories depicting the survival of classical culture in later ages. These superficially diverging interests actually went closely hand-in-hand: it can plausibly be asserted that it is the classical tradition in its broadest sense, including the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities, which forms Pater's principal subject as a writer. Although he initially approached antiquity obliquely, through the Italian Renaissance, for example, or the poetry of William Morris, later in his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient world, and particularly about Greece, his first love. The essays in this collection cover all his major works and reveal a many-sided and inspirational figure, whose achievements helped to reinvigorate the classical studies that were the basis of the English educational system of the nineteenth century, and whose conception of Classics as cross-disciplinary and outward-looking can be a model to scholars and students today. They discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy, and in doing so they also illuminate Pater's position within his Victorian context, among figures such as J. A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship, Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison, as well as his place in the study and reception of Classics today.
Solia
Solia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Solia write by . This book was released on 2002. Solia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
