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The Hogwarts Library Collection By:J.K. Rowling Published on 2017-09-01 by Pottermore Publishing Click The Button Below To Download The Book A collection of three books treasured by users of the great library at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander's masterful work on magical creatures; Quidditch Through the Ages, a comprehensive history of the game and its rules; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, with an introduction and illustrations by J.K. Rowling and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. A treasure trove of magical facts and fairy tales, the Hogwarts Library Collection is an essential companion to the Harry Potter series. This collection includes the updated edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, with a new foreword from J.K. Rowling (writing as Newt Scamander) and six new beasts! At least 15% of the net retail price* of this eBook bundle will be available to Comic Relief and Lumos Foundation for ...

Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows By:Tom DeLonge,AJ Hartley Published on 2016-04-05 by To The Stars Click The Button Below To Download The Book For those who know... that something is going on... The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who—or what—might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn’t. Most, but not everyone. Among those who know what they’ve seen, and—like the toll of a bell that can’t be unrung—are forever changed by it, are a pilot, an heiress, a journalist, and a prisoner of war. From the waning days of the 20th century’s final great war to the fraught fields of Afghanistan to the otherworldly secrets hidden amid Nevada’s dusty neverlands—the truth that is out there will propel each of them into a labyrinth of ot...

Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton By:Kathy A. Fedorko Published on 1995 by University Alabama Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Using feminist archetypal theory and theory of the female Gothic, Fedorko shows how, in sixteen short stories and six major novels written during four distinct periods of her life, Wharton adopts and adapts Gothic elements as a way to explore the nature of feminine and masculine ways of knowing and being and to dramatize the tension between them. A distinction in her use of the form is that she has both women and men engage in a process of individuation during which they confront the abyss, the threatening and disorienting feminine/maternal. Wharton deconstructs traditional Gothic villains and victims by encouraging the reader to identify with those characters who are willing to assimilate this confrontation with the feminine/maternal into their sense of themselves as women and men. In the novels with Gothic texts Wharton dr...

Mimesis as Make-believe By:Kendall L. Walton Published on 1990 by Harvard University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Representations--in visual arts and fiction--play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents here a theory of the nature of representation which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Walton's theory also provides solutions to thorny philosophical problems concerning the existence of fictitious beings. Throughout, his analysis is illustrated by a rich array of examples drawn from literature, painting, sculpture, theater, and film. 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

What the Dead Know By:Laura Lippman Published on 2009-10-13 by Harper Collins Click The Button Below To Download The Book Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead end—a dying, incoherent man, a razed house, a missing grave, and a f...

Science Fiction By:Dr Mark Bould, Published on 2012-06-25 by Routledge Click The Button Below To Download The Book Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying particular attention to the role of special effects in creating meaning and affect. It explores science fiction’s evocations of the sublime, the grotesque, and the camp, and charts the ways in which the genre reproduces and articulates discourses of colonialism, imperialism and neo-liberal globalization. At the same time, Science Fiction provides a thorough analysis of the genre’s representation of race, class, gender and sexuality, making this text an essential guide for students, academics and film fans alike. Key films discussed include: Le voyage dans la lune (1902) 20,000 Lea...

The Music of What Happens By:John Straley Published on 2018-06-05 by Soho Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, hires Cecil Younger to investigate. When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Younger is fired from the defence team, but he can't stop thinking about the case, and keeps on with the investigation alone. He's not sure what keeps him bulldogging the case - is it Priscilla's sister (his lost love)? His regard for truth as a rare commodity? Or the head injury Priscilla's ex gave him? 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

Literary Fiction By:Geir Farner Published on 2014-01-30 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA Click The Button Below To Download The Book Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction, opinions have been sharply divided, indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still need clarifying. Many of the |classical| problems that literary theory has been grappling with from Aristotle to our time are still waiting for a satisfactory solution. Based on a new cognitive model of literature as communication, Farner systematically explains how literary fiction works, providing new solutions to a wide range of literary issues, like intention, function, evaluation, delimitation of the literary work as such, fictionality, suspense, and the roles of author and narrator, along with such narratological problems as voice, point of view and duration. Covering a wide range of literary issues central t...

Fiction By:Adrian Lockwood,David Burton Published on 2003 by Letts & Londsale Click The Button Below To Download The Book This full-colour textbook helps teachers deliver specific English Framework objectives at Key Stage 3. This book focuses on drama and aims to boost the student's achievement. It is divided into material suitable for Year Seven, Eight or Nine and contains lesson and activity ideas. 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

John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism By:Mahmoud Salami Published on 1992 by Associated University Presse Click The Button Below To Download The Book This book presents a deconstructive reading of the novels and short stories of John Fowles. As a contemporary novelist, Fowles began as a modernist self-consciously aware of the various narratological problems that he encountered throughout his writings. In his most recent novel, A Maggot, however, he assumes the role of the postmodernist who not only subverts the tradition of narratology, but also poses a series of problems concerning history and politics. Throughout this study, Mahmoud Salami attempts to locate Fowles's fiction in the context of modern critical theory and narrative poetics. He provides a lively analysis of the ways in which Fowles deliberately deployed realistic historical narrative in order to subvert them from within the very conventions they seek to transgress, and he examines these subversiv...

Stranger Than Fanfiction By:Chris Colfer Published on 2017-02-28 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Click The Button Below To Download The Book From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a funny, heartbreaking, unforgettable novel about friendship and fame perfect for fans of Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl and John Green. Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television show Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked that he actually takes them up on it. Chased by paparazzi and hounded by reporters, this unlikely crew takes off on a journey of a lifetime--but along the way they discover that the star they love has deep secrets he's been keeping. What they come to learn about the life of the mysterious person they thought they knew will teach them about the power of empathy and the unbreakable bond of true friendship. In this touching novel, New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer ta...

Beacham's popular fiction in America By:Suzanne Niemeyer Published on 1986 by Beacham Publishing Corporation Click The Button Below To Download The Book Updates V.1 & V.2 ; Fiction-20th Century Literature. 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

Infinite Home By:Kathleen Alcott Published on 2015 by Penguin Click The Button Below To Download The Book The story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together. 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

Switched at Birth By:Kathryn Kennish,Michelle Gagnon Published on 2012-08-28 by Disney Electronic Content Click The Button Below To Download The Book FICTION--A fictional memoir written from the perspective of the Switched at Birth character, Kathryn Kennish. 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

Diary as Fiction By:Jessica M. Natale Published on 1999-10-01 by Universal-Publishers Click The Button Below To Download The Book There is a genre of literature in which the work is purposely written within the diary format; this type of writings known as diary fiction. Diary novels traditionally reflect what the authors think real diaries are or are written as a parody of the diary as a negative model. The authors of diary novels choose the diary form because its artistic quality expresses a greater sense of immediacy to the reader than other forms of literature. The diary novel emphasizes the time of writing rather than the time that it is written about, so the diarist usually writes about events of the immediate past - events that occur between one entry and the next - or records his momentary ideas, reflections, or emotions. Turgenev's |Diary of a Superfluous Man| represents the marriage of a memoir and a diary, resulting in a work with more contemporaneous content than recount...

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction By:Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn Published on 2003 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields; it draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from different angles. 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

The Lost World By:Arthur Conan Doyle Published on 2015-10-03 by 谷月社 Click The Button Below To Download The Book The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April–November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. 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