stories contained herein are about her heroic use of the latter magic, though they are often set to the backdrop of her professional life, i.e. clubs and other entertainment venues. Daughter to a deceased legend of stage prestidigitation, The Great Zatara, Zatanna makes magic through verbal ...
In addition, Grossman took some leftover knights that were always there in the background of other tales, such as Constantine, Dagonet, Dinadan and others, and gives them their own stories, making them a bunch of oddballs with internal struggles. Nimue gets a most interesting story as well...
Excluding the subtitle, the book actually avoids the words Byzantium and Byzantines as "misleading modern terms," but this is the period between Emperor Constantine's move of the Roman capital to the city that is now Istanbul in 330, and its fall to the Turks in 1453. This is a serious...
3*The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine– Not gonna lie, this one left me feeling yucky. I really didn’t like spending time with these people. I did make it to the end and liked the twist, but can’t really say I liked the book. And why would there be a sequel? No thank ...
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Worldhistoryis an increasingly exciting subject for books. In a sign of the vitality of the field, it was a book of global history covering several millennia about the human history of the oceans—David Abulafia'sThe Boundless Sea—that won the UK's most prestigious prize, the Wolfson Histor...
Written by James Tynion IV (Dark Knights: Metal, Detective Comics) and beautifully illustrated by Eryk Donovan (Constantine: The Hellblazer, Memetic), Eugenic offers an innovative take on the apocalypse: The human race may simply birth a new species that replaces us. The result is a story pa...
The Greek Anthology originally compiled First Century B C by Meleager of Gadara; definitive version compiled Tenth Century by Constantine Cephalus—Greek Marcus Tullius Cicero In Catilinam I-IV written 63 B C—Latin Pro Archia Poeta written 62 B C—Latin Pro Cluentio written 66 B C—La...
Elective Affinitiesshould be seen together with such nineteenth-century novels of adultery asMadame BovaryandAnna Karenina. Indeed, it may be the most troubling of the three. I have recommended David Constantine’s translation for Oxford World Classics. I advise reading the novel twice, the second...
The Secret Agent Constantine & Christianity D Dickens, Charles Donne, John Love Poetry Valedictions Religious Poetry Religious Metaphysical Dryden, John Durrell, Lawrence E Eliot, T S Introduction J Alfred Prufrock Prufrock & The Outsider Four Quartets F Faulkner, William Fielding, Henry Forster, E....