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Lucas Malet Deadham Hard (Fiscle Part 13) Of 1

Short Story
English
119067 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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A Peculiar Magic Resides In Running Water, As Every Student Of Earth-Lore Knows. There Is High Magic, Too, In The Marriage Of Rivers, So That The Spot Where Two Mingle Their Streams Is Sacred, Endowed With Strange Properties Of Evocation And Of Purification. Such Spots Go To The Making Of History And Ruling Of Individual Lives; But Whether Their Influence Is Not More Often Malign Than Beneficent May Be, Perhaps, Open To Doubt. [more]

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Dr. Jennifer Agard Brain Challenge PUZZLES: A Fun Way to Learn VOCABULARY – GRADE 7 – 8 Part 2

Practice your vocabulary - HOME SCHOOL TOOL

Education
English
7686 Words
Ages 12 and up
123
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Brain Challenge: A Fun Way to Learn Vocabulary offers a unique, educational approach to teaching vital skills to [more]

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JM Barnes The Slayarians - Book One

Beyond The Memory of Man

Fantasy
English
104246 Words
No Age Recommendation
3880
53

All legends and myths are based on long forgotten truths. They were the Slayarians and they were the protectors of life long before civilization. They were so ancient they witnessed the age of faerie on Earth. It was a time when men were wicked and war common. It was a time when the treachery of gods brought about the fall of Earth's protectors and the banishment of their most ancient deities. Evil men and the unspeakably malign infest the shadows as they wait for the fall of man and the rise of demon kind. A last remnant of the Slayarians does exist but as far as Darkon knows he is the last. Read his tale as he seeks others of his ilk and breaks down the barriers within his mind in order to meet his destiny. Wherever he goes adventurous souls are drawn to his cause and before long the means to restore his people will be within his grasp. Will Drakon live long enough to succeed and in light of his newly discovered ability with the mysterious mindflow, can he remain sane? [more]

Keywords: Darkon, Demons, Demonslayers, Gaea, Faerie, Demon, Demonslayer, Slayarian, AllMother, Adventure, Ancient, AlternateHistory, Battle, Adventurer, Elves, Dwarves, Gods, Abyss, Earth, Genocide, Magic, mindflow [more][Less]

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Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh

Fiction
English
162010 Words
Ages 12 and up
308
2

The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Way of All Flesh twelfth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The story is narrated by Overton, godfather to the central character. The novel takes its beginnings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to trace Ernest's emergence from previous generations of the Pontifex family. John Pontifex was a carpenter; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated into marrying Christina, the daughter of a clergyman; the main character Ernest Pontifex is the eldest son of Theobald and Christina. The author depicts an antagonistic relationship between Ernest and his hypocritical and domineering parents. His aunt Alethea is aware of this relationship, but dies before she can fulfill her aim of counteracting the parents' malign influence on the boy. However, shortly before her death she secretly passes a small fortune into Overton's keeping, with the agreement that once Ernest is twenty-eight, he can receive it. As Ernest develops into a young man, he travels a bumpy theological road, reflecting the divisions and controversies in the Church of England in the Victorian era. Easily influenced by others at university, he starts out as an Evangelical Christian, and soon becomes a clergyman. He then falls for the lures of the High Church (and is duped out of much of his own money by a fellow clergyman). He decides that the way to regenerate the Church of England is to live among the poor, but the results are, first, that his faith in the integrity of the Bible is severely damaged by a conversation with one of the poor he was hoping to redeem, and, second, that under the pressures of poverty and theological doubt, he attempts a sexual assault on a woman he had incorrectly believed to be of loose morals. This assault leads to a prison term. His parents disown him. His health deteriorates. As he recovers he learns how to tailor and decides to make this his profession once out of prison. He loses his Christian faith. He marries Ellen, a former housemaid of his parents, and they have two children and set up shop together in the second-hand clothing industry. However, in due course he discovers that Ellen is both a bigamist and an alcoholic. Overton at this point intervenes and pays Ellen a stipend, and she happily leaves with another for America. He gives Ernest a job, and takes him on a trip to Continental Europe. In due course Ernest becomes 28, and receives his aunt Alethea's gift. He returns to the family home until his parents die: his father's influence over him wanes as Theobald's own position as a clergyman is reduced in stature, though to the end Theobald finds small ways purposefully to annoy him. Ernest becomes an author of controversial literature. [more]

Keywords: the way of all flesh, samuel butler, classic english literature, satire, psychological fiction, epic drama, biographical

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