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Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is
bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who
informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered
in Hannay's London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect and is
forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotland,
fleeing the police and his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about
him if he is to warn the government before all is too late.
A pregnant woman takes the ferry to the UK. A fractious intimate
relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and
her girlfriend. Two ungendered characters contest the same female
body. A deserted wife takes a lover but remains unsatisfied. Lauren
Foley's debut collection of dramatic short stories, Polluted Sex,
is fearless in its depiction of women's bodies and sexuality,
offering an unflinching window into Irish girl and womanhood.
Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister
and avenge his family! In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro
Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is
shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little
sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed
into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to
find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who
ruined his life. The fight with Kokushibo, the highest-ranking
demon among Muzan's servants, is over. Although Himejima and Sanemi
defeated Kokushibo and sent him to hell, the price the Demon Slayer
Corps has paid is very high. Kiriya Ubuyashiki, the new leader of
the Demon Slayers, struggles to recover from the losses. With the
battle against Muzan far from over, the remaining fighters will
need his help more than ever. Meanwhile, deep within Infinity
Castle, Tanjiro and his friends come face-to-face with their
nemesis at last...
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Devils
(Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs; Translated by Constance Garnett; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P.
Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the
head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small
group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become
alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the
subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young
radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that
possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the
time. The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their
naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and
destruction, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their
all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The
key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nikolay
Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his
charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His
unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual
crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor. This prophetic
account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd
characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some
critics as Dostoevsky's masterpiece.
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