The Witling

The Witling
Author: Vernor Vinge
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765308863

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A classic science-fiction adventure by a Hugo Award bestselling author

The Witling

The Witling
Author: Witling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1750
Genre: Riddles
ISBN:

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Little Detours

Little Detours
Author: Susanne Kord
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781571131485

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Both the letters, edited and censored by Runckel, and the plays, commissioned and edited by her husband, reveal a number of intriguing "detours" from the path of conventionality: biographical aberrations in her letters (her chagrined loyalty to her husband, her passionate "friendship" with Runckel) and poetological deviations from her husband's poetics expressed in her dramas."--BOOK JACKET.

Kingdom of the Grail

Kingdom of the Grail
Author: Judith Tarr
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2004-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101212616

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World Fantasy Award nominee and National Bestselling author of House of War creates a fantastic legend inspired by the epic poem The Song of Roland and the mythical history of Merlin. Centuries after the fall of Camelot and the disappearance of King Arthur, the wizard Merlin remains a prisoner in an enchanted forest. After years of isolation a visitor comes to him: the boy’s name is Roland. He is young and ardent, and though he is yet untested, Merlin can sense the magical power within him. Roland swears to free Merlin, unaware of the consequences such an oath carries. Roland has since become a knight and mighty warrior. But his mystical powers are untested and his mentor remains imprisoned. Then an old enemy of Merlin’s returns, seeking the very object that tore apart the Knights of the Round Table—the Holy Grail. Now, with the help of a beautiful Saracen healer and a magical sword, Roland must face his test, fulfill his oath, and find his destiny.

Pietism in Petticoats and Other Comedies

Pietism in Petticoats and Other Comedies
Author: Louise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781879751606

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First English translation of Gottsched's five original comedies. Luise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713-1762), poet, essayist, translator, and playwright, was regarded during her lifetime as intellectually the most formidable woman in Germany. Together with her better-known husband, Johann C. Gottsched, she crusaded to reform the language and literary taste of the Germans. Frau Gottsched's most important contribution to German literature came in the form of her translations and original comedies in the French classical style. The present volume offers for the first time in English translation Luise Gottsched's five original comedies, including Pietism in Petticoats (1736). The targets of her biting wit are hypocritical religious fundamentalists, the gentry, middle-class social climbers, German francophiles, and pseudo-intellectuals. These witty satires make it obvious why Luise has come to be viewed as the mother of the modern German comedy.