eBooks „hero“
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Robert E. Howard
Jewels of Gwahlur
- Fantasy
- English
- 17162 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 156
- 2
"Jewels of Gwahlur" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. Set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age, it concerns several parties, including Conan, fighting over and hunting for the eponymous treasure in Hyborian Africa.
Conan, following legends of this treasure, has travelled to Keshan and offered his services to train and lead Keshan's army against their neighbour, Punt. However, Thutmekri, a Stygian rogue with similar intentions, and his Shemitish partner, Zargheba, also arrive in the country with an offer of a military alliance with another of Punt's neighbours, Zembabwei, with some of the Teeth to seal their pact. The high priest of Keshan, Gorulga, announces that a decision on the matter can only be made after consulting Yelaya, the mummified oracle of Alkmeenon. This is all the treasure hunters require. Zargheba joins Gorulga in his expedition while Conan travels ahead of them.
In the abandoned city the initial atmosphere of the supernatural gives way to intrigue over the oracle. Zargheba has brought along a Corinthian slave girl, Muriela, to play the part of the oracle and tell the priests to hand all of the jewels to Thutmekri. Conan is first scared of the living oracle but quickly discovers the ruse. Intrigue and mystery follows as the imposter and the body of the genuine oracle switch and reappear. Gorulga, however, is an innocent in this, genuinely attempting to consult his oracle.
However, a fourth faction appears. A Pelishti traveller, Bit-Yakin, had visited the valley of the lost city in the past. When the people of Keshan visited the site to worship Yelaya as a goddess, Bit-Yakin provided prophecies from a hiding place. Eventually he died there; his undying servants buried him as per his instructions, and, got rid of their master's control, massacred all priests from Keshan who attempted to visit the city and consult the oracle afterwards. Bit-Yakin's servants, revealed to be large, gray-furred ape-like creatures, kill the survivors of Gorulga's party when they attempt to claim the jewels. Conan manages to acquire the chest containing the jewels but is forced to abandon them to save Muriela. They escape together and Conan ends the story by outlining a new plan. [more]
Keywords: jewels of gwahlur, robert e howard, alternative history, conan the barbarian, fantasy, science fiction, action and adventure, thriller and suspense
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Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
- Fiction
- English
- 129220 Words
- Ages 8 and up
- 219
- 2
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad. Jim a young British seaman becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. The court strips him of his navigation command certificate for his dereliction of duty. Jim is angry with himself, both for his moment of weakness, and for missing an opportunity to be a 'hero'.
At the trial, he meets Charles Marlow, a sea captain, who in spite of his initial misgivings over what he sees as Jim's moral unsoundness, comes to befriend him, for he is "one of us". Marlow later finds Jim work as a ship chandler's clerk. Jim tries to remain incognito, but whenever the opprobrium of the Patna incident catches up with him, he abandons his place and moves further east.
Later, Marlow's friend Stein suggests placing Jim as his factor in Patusan, a remote inland settlement with a mixed Malay and Bugis population, where Jim's past can remain hidden. While living on the island he acquires the title 'Tuan' ('Lord'). Here, Jim wins the respect of the people and becomes their leader by relieving them from the predations of the bandit Sherif Ali and protecting them from the corrupt local Malay chief, Rajah Tunku Allang. Jim wins the love of Jewel, a woman of mixed race, and is "satisfied... nearly". The end comes a few years later, when the town is attacked by the marauder "Gentleman" Brown. Although Brown and his gang are driven off, Dain Waris, the son of the leader of the Bugis community, is slain. Jim returns to Doramin, the Bugis leader, and willingly takes a fatal bullet in the chest from him as retribution for the death of his son. [more]
Keywords: lord jim, joseph conrad, sea story, psychological thriller, modern literature, action and adventure, historical fiction
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Quentin Miller
The Great American Novelist (Early Chapters)
- Fiction
- English
- 2 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 357
- 2
Scott Anderson is a disgruntled graduate student who prefers browsing through used bookstores to writing his dissertation. Scott always assumed that he would become a literature professor, but when a member of his committee criticizes his work, Scott is as angry and ashamed as any spurned lover, and he seeks out the pleasures of reading (as opposed to studying) books. One day he discovers a novel called Lesser Revolutions by a 1960s author he has never heard of named Richard Morton. Scott is so moved by Morton’s work that he decides to quit his Ph.D. program and to ask his father for a loan so he can write Morton’s biography.
The novel humorously intersperses chapters of Scott’s life with the life of Richard Morton as it shuffles together memoir with literary biography (both of which are fictional, in this case). Part of the humor comes from Scott’s inability to refrain from telling his own story while he tells Morton’s: all biographies, he insists, are really autobiographies. More of the humor comes from the fact that Morton really isn’t as good as Scott thinks he is: a self-centered alcoholic who abandons his family and who callously rejects love in favor of art, Morton comes across as a cad, and probably a cheap imitator of his literary hero, Jack Kerouac. Morton only managed to produce two novels and a handful of short stories, and he died obscurely at the age of 36. Still, Scott defends his subject as long as he can, realizing that he has staked his own career on Morton’s.
Scott, a native of Mason City, Iowa, moves to the wealthy coastal town of Marblehead, Massachusetts in order to research Morton’s life. Frustrated by his inability to discover anything about Morton by poking around the author’s native town, Scott is ready to give up when he stumbles across a woman named Sarah Taylor reading Lesser Revolutions on the beach. Sarah is unhappily married. She is beautiful and rich. And, Scott learns at an awkward moment, she is Richard Morton’s illegitimate daughter. She has taken pains to reinvent herself as a member of Marblehead’s upper-class yachting community, but she is clearly unfulfilled. Scott becomes her lover, and she becomes his unofficial patron as well as his editor, partly to control what he will say about the father who abandoned her and partly to give herself a sense of purpose.
The Great American Novelist involves a number of topics: the value of literary biography weighed against fiction, the cost of literary fame, the choice between career and family, and the difficulty outsiders face when they try to break into closed communities. Above all, though, it is a story about a romantic intellectual who believes in love and in fiction and a cynical socialite who won’t allow herself to believe in either. Having risked everything to write this biography and to pursue a life with Sarah, Scott learns that love doesn’t conquer all, at least not in Marblehead: money does. Still, he isn’t completely jaded by the end of the novel. He has grown up enough to lose some of his priggishness, but he has not completely given up on his original love: literature. [more]
Keywords: Literary biography, parody, graduate school
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FANNY E COE
BOOK OF STORIES FOR THE STORYTELLER
- Drama
- English
- 55823 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Title: The Book of Stories for the Storyteller
Author: Fanny E. Coe
Release Date: August 3, 2008 [EBook #26177]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
There is no need here to enter a plea for story-telling. Its value in the home and in the school is assured. Miss Bryant, in her charming book, How to Tell Stories to Children, says, "Perhaps never, since the really old days, has story-telling so nearly reached a recognized level of dignity as a legitimate and general art of entertainment as now." And, in the guise of entertainment, the story is often the vehicle conveying to the child the wholesome moral lesson or the bit of desirable knowledge so necessary to his well-being at the time. Thus it has come to be recognized that the ability to tell a story well is an important part of the equipment of the parent or the teacher of little children.
The parent is often at a loss for fresh material. Sometimes he "makes up" a story, with but poor satisfaction to himself or his child. The teacher's difficulty is quite otherwise. She knows of many good stories, but these same stories are scattered through many books, and the practical difficulty of finding time in her already overcrowded days for frequent trips to the library is well-nigh insurmountable. The quest is indefinitely postponed, with the result that the stories are either crowded out altogether, or that the teacher repeats the few tales she has at hand month after month, and year after year, until all freshness and inspiration are gone from the story time.
The stories in the present collection are drawn from many nations and from widely differing sources. Folk tales, modern fairy tales, and myths have a generous showing; and there is added a new field as a source for stories. This is Real Life, in which children soon begin to take decided interest. Under this heading appear tales of child life, of child heroes, of adult heroes, and of animals.
Mr Herbert L. Willett, of the University of Chicago, has said: "It is not through formal instruction that a child receives his impulses toward virtue, honour and courtesy. It is rather from such appeal to the emotions as can be made most effectually through the telling of a story. The inculcation of a duty leaves him passionless and unmoved. The narrative of an experience in which that same virtue finds concrete embodiment fires him with the desire to try the same conduct for himself. Few children fail to make the immediate connection between the hero or heroine of the story and themselves."
Because of this great principle of imitation, a large number of the stories in this little volume have been chosen for their moral value. They present the virtues of persistence, faithfulness, truthfulness, honesty, generosity, loyalty to one's word, tender care of animals, and love of friends and family. Some themes are emphasized more than once. "Hans the Shepherd Boy," "The Story of Li'l' Hannibal," and "Dust under the Rug," teach wholesome facts [more]
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Saniul Alom Sun
The Mastermind Motivation
- Education
- English
- 2409 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 31
Inspiration stories
Friends will never be afraid of anything else. If you step back in fear, you will not be able to reach your goal. So when your mind becomes weak, think about it once in a while. Joe Dar-Gaya is Mar Gaya.
What happens when you lose courage?
Courage is something that will help you move forward. Yes !! Courage is something that will change your defeat. Courage is something that will turn your failure into success. And once you get scared, your empire will collapse. Boss you know, fear teaches you to break and courage teaches you to build. And you are standing in the middle of this break-up. So you have to decide whether you will go backwards or forwards. And if you have to come back, then come back just like a tiger comes back to jump on its prey.
But then when you jump in, let everything fall within your reach. Remember, life is but one and this life will not give you a second chance. The time that is gone today will never come back. Or there is no way in our life that we can use it and start all over again from scratch. So come forward without fear. Start with courage. Your fight will continue until you reach the threshold of success.
You lose once, you lose twice, you lose three times, but after trying again and again, once you win, you win. Always keep in mind friend, life is not a game of luck, life is a game of action. You will get the same result as you will do. Start working without luck. Then when you qualify for that job, Allah or God will give you your success as a gift. Then you will do a road show with your victory trophy. If you're a loser now, don't be afraid. Just keep preparing with courage in mind and promise yourself,
Make yourself a JJ
That good time is coming and I will bring this good time. So boss, just think of yourself as a hero. You will see that the people around will become zero in a moment. And if you think of yourself as zero today, the people around you will become heroes and press on your neck.
So I say everything depends on you. Everything is possible once you try. So keep all the pain, suffering, sorrow, defeat, defeat in your chest and run after the new morning again. One day you will see that success will come within your reach in an instant. So friend, jump without delay and move towards your goal, and move forward on the path of success. And always remember that he who works hard can never lose. At the rate of those who are looking for opportunities without working hard. If that's the case now, change yourself now. Otherwise you will lose yourself later.
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DANIEL K ANSAH, HOLY E. ANSAH
The bleeding Princess in the Monters Land
it pays to resist evil lust
- Thriller
- English
- 14814 Words
- Ages 10 and up
- 80
In the cause of time, long ago in an eastern land, slave trade was the order the day and everyone bought from one another anything that could be exchanged for silver or gold as in a barter trade. There were all sort of people with all kinds of skills and arts experts, magicians, soothsayers, necromancers, star gazers, and many more we can’t state all. And the sons of magicians who had bought the beautiful prince from crazy wolves, who had bought him from his wicked brothers, went to Monsters Land with the beautiful prince, and they came upon the borders of Monsters land, and when they came near unto Monsters land, they met four men of the sons of the black fellow the son of a Hero, who had gone forth from the land of monsters on their journey. And the Hagarens said unto them, do you desire to purchase this good for nothing fellow from us? And they said, Deliver him over to us, and they delivered the beautiful prince over to them, and they beheld him that he was a very comely youth and they purchased him for twenty pieces of silver. And the Hagarens continued their journey to Monsters Land and the Magicians also returned that day to Monsters land, and the Magicians said to each other, Behold we have heard that Xexi , an officer of Ra, captain of the guard, seeks a good servant who shall stand before him to attend him, and to make him overseer over his Empire and all belonging to him. Now therefore come let us sell him to him for what we may desire, if he be able to give unto us that which we shall require for him. And these Magicians went and came to the Empire of Xexi , and said unto him, We have heard that you seeking a good servant to attend you, behold we have a servant that will please you, if you can give unto us that which we may desire, and we will sell him unto you. And Xexi said, Bring him before me, and I will see him, and if he please me I will give unto you that which you may require for him. And the Magicians went and brought the beautiful prince and placed him before Xexi , and he saw him, and he pleased him exceedingly, and Xexi said unto them, Tell me what you require for this youth? And they said, Four hundred pieces of silver we desire for him, and Xexi said, I will give it you if you bring me the record of his sale to you, and will tell me his history, for perhaps he may be stolen, for this youth is neither a good for nothing fellow, nor the son of a good for nothing fellow, but I observe in him the appearance of a goodly and handsome person. And the Magicians went and brought unto him the Hagarens who had sold him to them, and they told him, saying, He is a good for nothing fellow and we sold him to them. And Xexi heard the words of the Hagarens in his giving the silver unto the Magicians, and the Magicians took the silver and went on their journey, and the Hagarens also returned home. And Xexi took the beautiful prince and brought him to his Empire that he might serve him, and the beautiful prince found favor in the sight of Xexi , and he placed confidence in him, and made him overseer over his Empire , and all that belonged to him he delivered over into his hand. And Tob his Charm was with the beautiful prince and he became a prosperous man, and Tob his Charm blessed the Empire of Xexi for the sake of the beautiful prince. And Xexi left all that he had in the hand of the beautiful prince, and the beautiful prince was one that caused things to come in and go out, and everything was regulated by his wish in the Empire of Xexi. And the beautiful prince was eighteen years old, a youth with beautiful eyes and of comely appearance, and like unto him was not in the whole land of monsters. At that time whilst he was in his boss’s Empire, going in and out of the Empire and attending his boss , Charming Princess , his boss 's wife, lifted up her eyes toward the beautiful prince and she looked at him, and behold he was a youth comely and well favored. And she coveted his beauty in her heart , and her appetite was fixed upon the beautiful prince, and she enticed him day after day, and Charming Princess persuaded the beautiful prince daily, but the beautiful prince did not lift up his eyes to behold his boss 's wife. And Charming Princess said unto him, How goodly are your appearance and form, truly I have looked at all the good for nothing fellow , and have not seen so beautiful a good for nothing fellow as you are ; and the beautiful prince said unto her, Surely he who created me in my mother's womb created all mankind. And she said unto him, How beautiful are your eyes, with which you have dazzled all the inhabitants of Monsters land , men and women; and he said unto her, How beautiful they are whilst we are alive, but must you behold them in the grave, surely you would move away from them. And she said unto him, how beautiful and pleasing all your words are; take now, I pray you, the harp whic [more]
Keywords: Romance, Erotic love, lust, evil lust, magician, novels, fictions, true stories, beauty, skills, Queen of England, Top 10 best Novels, Reader online
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Nigel Carrington
Ant Hill
The Anthology
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- English
- 2 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 2798
- 10
Nigel Carrington is a self-taught Trinidadian writer and artist currently residing in Rochester, NY. Nigel has been spinning tales since he was seven years old, fueled by the work of artists like Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo and countless hours of Sci Fi and Japanese Anime movies he created the Starr Skills Studios Universe which comprise of Ant hill, G.U.N and The Ananci.
Nigel came to the United States in the year 2001 with a strong desire to become a Comic Book Artist. Being that this is “the land of opportunity” he decided to make one for himself by presenting his work to the offices of Marvel Comics in Manhattan NY . He met with one of Marvel’s Editors and was given test assignments which included Spider -man, Dare Devil and The Hulk. The Editor was impressed by his work and it gave Nigel an increase in confidence, but nonetheless Nigel had to maintain a more steadier income aside from free lance . In the following years of working a regular job he returned to his true passion, doing so by giving life to the characters he created as a child and the rest is history in the making.
Nigel worked on a back-up story for the Terror of the Midnight Robber #2 when he lived in his home country of Trinidad and has self published other works including Truth Amongst the Bones, Ananci, G.U.N., and the Ant Hill series. You can see Nigel’s work and get more information on his upcoming projects by staying posted on this web site. www.anthillcomic.com
Creating Ant Hill by Nigel Carrington
The year was 1999 when the journey began. I can't remember the exact sequence of events, but it was around that time I just discovered my brand new love for Comic Books and created Ant Hill while living in my home Country of Trinidad. I discovered Comic Books during the Image Comic movement. If you are not familiar with the Image Comic movement of the early nineties, just Google it. My brother Nicholas was the first one to introduce me the medium and he found out about it from his friends Jerome and Joel Griffth. Back then we all had our comic book titles we would collect from Image Comics. Nicholas collected The Maxx, Joel collected Savage Dragon, Jerome bounce in between titles and I collected Spawn.Being aspiring comic book artists, we decided to make our own comic book company called Cape Comics. Much like the bigger companies we looked up to we planned for our debut publication to be a collaboration book called Sign it was a black and white book that would be printed on eigth and a half by eleven size paper folded and staple by the creators, a simple formula for self publication .The plan was stories by Nicholas and Joel would be featured in the first issue then me and Jerome in the following . So I started looking for inspiration for a cool story that would introduce me to the world, which came to me one hungry and exasuting day after working my regular nine to five job. I arrived home with the intention of eatting some left overs but instead I got a plate of rice , ants and chicken. Being upset I stuck the plate in the microwave and took the ants for a ride. It killed the ants, but the ingredients remained the same. Being hungry I still ate the food reguardless.Anyways a couple of days later while remembering my ants episode it came to me : what if I made the best Ant character ever ? Then in the following days leading up to my story for Sign I modifed it into a space saga after talking to my friend Morillo about the idea. He said to me that he was getting a "vision" of the charcter in space with other ants. The pieces of the puzzle started to come together, so I created my first Comic Book. I never got chance to publish it because " Sign" only had one publication so the story was shelved temporary.
Fast forward into the future twelve years later. I was searching for a comic book title that I thought would make a good book. After creating a comic book called Gun that had mixed reviews, I tapped out of ideas. I revisited my old childhood creation, and started penciling the pages for an Anthill reboot. At first I was hesitant to work on the character because of all the other ant characters I learnt about (which I beleave was some how inspired by my submissions to these main stream companies) but they can't beat the original .Now the original book I did was still back home in Trinidad, so I totally forgot what I had planned for the story or main character. All I remembered is that he had cool long attenas something like Spawns Cape. So once again I started thinking of an idea that I thought would make a good story. I started grabbing for situation that affected me most in my life. At the time my cousin Fhoalan had pass away from sickle cell anemia he had fought with all his might. He was such a cheery soul that no one would ever imagine the pain he most had suffered.Then somewhere in my mind it clicked. Fhaolan's life kinda mirrored what I wanted my main charaters life in the story to be. A person that had so much pain every time he charges into the hero that everyone admired they would never know the pain he suffered because he would never let it show.That was one of the first changes I made to the story.My Aunt Jennifer who also died of cancer became his mother and Fhoalan's dad (who is still alive and well) Uncle Robert became his dad Rob etc.. Then some of my other past acquaintances, storylines and charaters I tied it into the Ant Hill books and made a cliff hanger saga and so Ant Hill was born.
Life after creating Ant Hill issue number one has not change that much not like I invisioned it would. Everytime I create a book I see it as if it would make a good Movie script, not just a good comic book. Lately I started writing more than I am drawing when I produce a book. At my very first free comic book day show In Rochester NY I was talking to James Clauney (a local comic book Artist and creator of Amildillo ) and he give me some wise advise. He said "Nigel I started writing more before I even pick up a pencil to draw because sometimes as artists we tend to draw more than we write and that's what seperate a comic artist from a comic "book" artist. A bomic book artist now means a whole lot more to me now than it did in my humble beginings in Trinidad. Even more so being a Independant comic book artist, I take a script and turn it into visual image that you can follow in a series of stories. For Independent Artist like my self that do the majority of the work and don't get the props for the dedication we have to the craft like the "so call celebrity artist" do, it had me thinking.Should I continue this journey I started so long ago, the journey that has my fans cheering me on or should I give up like some others that tried before me .Come what may the journey up lifes ant hill contiues for us none quiters.
When I Rebooted Ant Hill I made a promises to my self that I know my lord and savior Jesus will bring to fruition. Thanks to everyone who had accompanied me on the journey. Don't matter how big or small some your contribution was, I appreicate you. I want to thank all the comic book stores that support my books my family and friends, and thank you esspecially for picking up this book and reading this section. I hope you enjoyed it.I would like from you ,so please feel free to email me at: antfarm@athillcomic.com or via face book and twitter @ nigelcarrington Thanks and untill the next time I hope you will take this journey to the next volume or the next ish with me. [more]
Keywords: Independent Comic Book, Starr Skills Studios, Nigel Carrington, Ant, Ant Hill, Comic Book, Comic Books, New Books, New book
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