![]() Full of imagination and light, beauty and humor, this Odyssey carries you along in a fast stream of action and imagery. His muscular language keeps the diction close to spoken English, yet its rhythms recreate the oceanic surge of the ancient Greek. Stephen Mitchell’s translation brings Odysseus and his adventures vividly to life as never before. With its consummately modern hero, full of guile and wit, always prepared to reinvent himself in order to realize his heart’s desire-to return to home and family after ten years of war- The Odyssey now speaks to us again across 2,600 years. ![]() The Odyssey is the original hero’s journey, an epic voyage into the unknown that has inspired other creative work for millennia-from ancient poetry to contemporary fiction and films. It has been said that a myth is a story about the way things never were but always are. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture-and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks-Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. Often asked by major Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Enter for a chance to win a copy of PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS by Dara Horn! ![]() ![]() ![]() When a plot to seize unimaginable magic power comes to a head on Jack's own family estate, Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets and bloody sacrifice – and the foundations of magic in Britain might be torn up by the roots before the end. ![]() and unfortunately, he happens to be everything that Jack wants in one gorgeous, infuriating package. He's loud in his hatred of the aristocracy and their unearned power. Cagey and argumentative, Alan is only in this for the money. And to make matters worse, they need the help of writer and thief Alan Ross. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping its owner Violet track down the final piece of the Last Contract before their enemies can do the same. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual risking every magician in Britain, he's drawn reluctantly back into that world. He renounced magic after the death of his twin sister. Jack Alston – Lord Hawthorn – would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. A Power Unbound is the spellbinding conclusion to The Last. 'Sublime prose, top-notch world-building, delightfully queer' – TJ Klune, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, on A Marvellous Light When a plot to seize unimaginable magic power comes to a head on Jacks own family estate, Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets, and bloody sacrifice and the foundations of magic in Britain might be torn up by the roots before the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anthony publishes scandalous rumors about Victoria’s past, Victoria enters into a fierce rivalry with Susan to control the women’s movement. Victoria then parlays her fortune into the first female-owned brokerage firm. Along with her loose and scandalous sister, Tennessee, Victoria manipulates Vanderbilt and together they conspire to crash the stock market”"and profit from it. ![]() James introduces Victoria to one of the wealthiest men in America-Commodore Vanderbilt. Victoria chooses revolution.īut revolutions are expensive, and Victoria needs money. She can stay in an abusive marriage and continue to work as a psychic, or she can take the offer of support from handsome Civil War general James Blood and set about to turn society upside down. It’s 1869 and Victoria has a choice to make. This is the true story of Victoria Woodhull and the love of her life, James Blood.Īdored by the poor, hated by the powerful, forced into hiding during their lifetimes and erased from history after death, the legend of their love lives on. Their social revolution attracted the unwanted who were left out of the new wealth: the freed slaves, the new immigrants, and women. He was the Hero of Vicksburg, disillusioned with the government after witnessing the devastating carnage of the Civil War. She was the first woman to run for President, campaigning before women could vote. ![]() Two Renegades So Controversial They Were Erased From Historyĭiscarded by society, she led a social revolution. ![]() |