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Surfacing

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Surfacing By:Margaret Atwood Published on 2010-12-10 by Emblem Editions Click The Button Below To Download The Book Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a young woman who returns to northern Quebec, to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realize that going home means entering not only another place, but another time. As the wild island exerts its elemental hold and she is submerged in the language of the wilderness, she discovers that what she is really searching for is her own past. Permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose, Surfacing has grown in reputation as a novel unique in modern literature for its mythic exploration of one woman’s spiritual pilgrimage. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is tru...
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The Time Machine

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The Time Machine By:H. G. Wells Published on 2016-09-13 by Read Books Ltd Click The Button Below To Download The Book “The Time Machine” is a seminal science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. At one of his weekly dinner parties, an English scientist reveals that he has devised a machine with the ability to carry a person through time. To demonstrate his invention, he returns at dinner the following week and recounts a remarkable tale. An example of classic science fiction, “The Time Machine” is widely considered as responsible for the popularisation of the concept of purposeful time travel, especially in fiction. It is also in this novel that the term |time machine| was coined by Wells. This book is highly recommended for all lovers of science fiction and is not to be missed by fans of Wells' work. Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps...
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Killer Fiction

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Killer Fiction By:G. J. Schaefer Published on 2011-02 by Feral House Click The Button Below To Download The Book Including a foreword by a woman who once dated him, the perverse, violent stories, poetry, and fantastic scribblings of a man convicted in 1972 of murdering two women chart the killer's extreme pathology. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book
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Science Fiction Voices # 2

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Science Fiction Voices # 2 By:Jeffrey M. Elliot Published on 1979 by Wildside Press LLC Click The Button Below To Download The Book Jeffrey M. Elliot interviews five writers of science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, A. E. van Vogt, Poul Anderson, and Robert Silverberg. With an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book
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A Thousand Splendid Suns

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A Thousand Splendid Suns By:Khaled Hosseini Published on 2008-09-18 by A&C Black Click The Button Below To Download The Book A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book
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Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Sing, Unburied, Sing By:Jesmyn Ward Published on 2017-09-05 by Simon and Schuster Click The Button Below To Download The Book |A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present|-- Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book
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Fiction Rivals Science

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Fiction Rivals Science By:Allen Thiher Published on 2001 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book In Fiction Rivals Science, Allen Thiher describes the epistemic rivalry that the major nineteenth-century French novelists felt in dealing with science. After brief considerations of Stendhal, Thiher focuses on the four most important |realist| novelists in France: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and, going into the twentieth century, Proust. According to Thiher, each of these novelists considered himself to be in competition with science to make the novel an instrument for knowledge. The first chapter sets forth the understanding of science that dominated the early nineteenth century in order to make it plausible that literary minds, throughout the nineteenth century, thought that they could not only rival science, but even make positive contributions to knowledge. The Newtonian paradigm that had dominated the Enlightenment was slowly being challenged by new developments both in physics and...
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