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To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed
spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can't Happen Here is a chilling cautionary tale by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, which is still startlingly relevant almost a century later. Charting the rise to power of Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip, who whips his supporters into a frenzy while promising drastic reform under a banner of patriotism and traditional values, It Can't Happen Here decries the tactics used by politicians to mobilise voters, and exposes the danger of authoritarianism arising from populist platforms, and the chaos such regimes can leave in their wake.
Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse "The Hunting of the Snark," and miscellaneous poems, short stories, puzzles, and acrostics.
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.
Are high-school girls Nanoha and Chidori ready to face the storms in
their new romantic relationship together?
From its iconic opening, The New York Trilogy famously blurred the lines between postmodern literature and noir fiction. Now, for the first time, all three books have been adapted for this landmark graphic novel, each by a different artist, and all overseen by Paul Auster before his death. In David Mazzuchelli's take on City of Glass, a writer of detective fiction is drawn into a real-life case far stranger than anything he has ever written; in Lorenzo Mattotti's Ghosts, a private eye is hired to stalk a man only to discover a case so puzzling he descends into madness; and in series Director Paul Karasik's The Locked Room, another author hopes to cure his writer's block by solving the disappearance of his childhood friend. As each artist channels the cross-genre thrills of their source material, with its joyous mix of highbrow and lowbrow, the result is a groundbreaking new visual take on a modern classic.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy. The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence.
Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris
Opera House, wreaking havoc, have long been rife among staff and
performers. This Phantom also haunts the imagination of the beautiful
and talented singer Christine Daaé, appearing to her as the 'Angel of
Music' - a disembodied voice, coaching her to sing as she never could
before. When Christine is courted by a handsome young Viscount, the
mysterious spectre, who resides in the murky depths of the building, is
consumed by jealousy and seeks revenge.
Superman takes flight in this exciting new adventure! A young girl named Alice is kidnapped by aliens, and Superman is determined to find her somewhere up in the sky. The Man of Steel goes to incredible lengths in search of Alice, taking on plenty of challenges along the way including boxing against Mighto, preventing a space missile attack, and fighting alongside Sgt. Rock during World War II. While he is away, he worries about the people of Metropolis as well as the love of his life, Lois Lane. While on the quest to save Alice, Superman can t help but grapple with an important philosophical question is he doing the right thing by saving one person instead of focusing on saving thousands? From acclaimed writer Tom King (Batman, The Omega Men) and artist Andy Kubert (Dark Knight III: The Master Race, Flashpoint), Superman: Up in the Sky collects issues #1-6 of this thrilling series.
After the long journey to the Western Khaganate, Cui Buqu and Feng Xiao find their diplomatic efforts stymied when they are accused of murdering a Göktürk prince. Thinking on his feet, Cui Buqu requests a single day to crack the case and clear their names. Yet to everyone’s surprise, the crafty chief of the Zuoyue Bureau offers himself as hostage, leaving the investigation—and his life—in Feng Xiao’s peerlessly beautiful hands. Now Feng Xiao faces a difficult choice: watch his rival perish in the desert or risk his own life in pursuit of the true killer. Time is running out, and unsettling forces are at work within the Western Khaganate. Yet Feng Xiao can’t shake the feeling
In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight, midwestern, coastal-are finding their own paths in learning who they are and how they want to love and be loved, even when those paths must be blazed through the unknown. Concerning husbands and wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen's stories explore our search for connection and all the ways we undercut it, unwittingly and intentionally, when we do find it. How do we hold ourselves together-to function, work, and survive-while endlessly yearning to be undone, unraveled, and laid bare, however untenable and excruciating? How Other People Make Love contains nine stories. "Win's Girl" features a single woman who works at an Iowa slaughterhouse and uses the insurance money from a car accident to update the electric system in her dead parents' old house, only to be unwittingly embroiled with a shady electrician who ultimately forces her to stand up for herself. In "Home Is Where the Heart Gives Out and We Arouse the Grass," a young woman flees after cheating on her husband and winds up at a Nebraska roadside motel populated by participants in a regional dog show who help her decide what to do next. In "Unity Brought Them Together," a young man heads to his favorite New York coffee shop intending to finish the Christmas cards his vacationing fiancee insists on sending, but winds up meeting another displaced young midwestern man there and going home with him instead. All these stories explore the question, "how do we love?" as well as the answers we find, discard, follow, banish, and cling to in all our humanness and desperation. How Other People Make Love asserts that there aren't right and wrong ways to love; there are only our very complicated and contradictory human hearts, minds, bodies, and desires-all searching for something, whether we know what that is or not. These are stories for anyone who has ever loved or been loved.
POINT OF NO RETURN After failing in their quest to capture the
treacherous Xu Shuanglin, Mo Ran and Chu Wanning pursue him to the
impenetrable Mount Jiao, accompanied by the noble Nangong Si and the
leaders of the cultivation realm’s great sects. There, they find the
ancestral tomb of Rufeng Sect transformed into a macabre spectacle
under the influence of Xu Shuanglin’s forbidden magic. And their
adversary’s work is not done: as Sisheng Peak and their allies fight
their way to the top of the mountain, Xu Shuanglin resorts to a
powerful and mysterious magic that threatens to tear their world
asunder. As the combined forces of the cultivation world race to stop
Xu Shuanglin, Mo Ran must finally confront the past he’s been running
from since his rebirth. Will Mo Ran lose everything he has gained in
this life—including Chu Wanning? Series Overview: Cruel tyrant
Taxian-jun killed his way to the throne and now reigns as the first
ever emperor of the mortal realm. Yet somehow, he is unsatisfied. Left
cold and bereft, abandoned by all he held dear, he takes his own
life…only to be reborn anew. Awakening in the body of his younger
self—Mo Ran, a disciple of the cultivation sect Sisheng Peak—he
discovers the chance to relive his life. This time, he vows to attain
the gratification that once eluded him: all who defied him will fall,
and never again will they treat him like a dog. His greatest fury is
reserved for Chu Wanning, the coldly beautiful and aloofly catlike
cultivation teacher who betrayed and thwarted Mo Ran time and again in
their last life. Yet as Mo Ran shamelessly pursues his own goals in
this life he thought lost, he begins to wonder if there might be more
to his teacher—and his own feelings—than he ever realized. This Chinese
fantasy (xianxia) epic built around the desire between two men (danmei)
has been translated into multiple languages and inspired a multimedia
franchise in China. The Seven Seas English-language edition will
include exclusive, all-new covers and interior illustrations from
artist St with a translation by Rynn & Jun.
Limited Edition (one printing only!) of this danmei/Boys’ Love novel series from China that inspired the popular live-action drama streaming in English! In this final book (Volume 3), read the conclusion to this modern fantasy about gods, ghosts, and supernatural investigations from blockbuster author Priest (Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang, Word of Honor). When a mysterious illness knocks Zhao Yunlan off his feet, he enjoys being doted on by Shen Wei—until he discovers a grim secret that threatens to tear them apart. However, it’s not just their domestic bliss that’s on the verge of collapse. The Great Seal is cracking, order itself is about to break down and extinguish all life, and their only hope to stop the destruction is the final Hallowed Artifact: the Soul-Guarding Lamp. But even as the world threatens to crumble around them, Zhao Yunlan searches for the truth and a way to keep Shen Wei by his side, this time for all eternity. The thrilling conclusion to the hit series arrives! This limited Special Edition contains the Standard Edition, but with bonus merchandise shrinkwrapped to the book: a set of six postcards, a double-sided bookmark, two folded mini posters, and a sticker sheet. Don't miss the new art from guest artists included in this special merch!
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure...
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