In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and...
'From Rome to Byzantium' provides a detailed overview of trading activity in the Roman and Byzantine Mediterranean, grounded in recent archaeological research. In particular, it is argued that while state-sponsored...
Darkness is a venerated and much revered Prophet. He is also only human. On the eve of imminent alien contact, one that could decide the fate of all life on Earth, it is his responsibility to read the future,...
In this book the author tries to compare the historical Jesus with the mythological, seeking to show that the Jesus of the Gospels probably never really existed, having emerged from a fusion of ancient pagan...
A Dareville short! It's Karaoke Night at the local Cinco de Mayo celebration, but Red Marbury is singing the blues. When a gorgeous barfly named Miguel offers to cheer him up, Red comes to realize he can still...
Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Jules Verne’s...
The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands of...
Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879 , it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what...
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