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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption....
The original idea of making records in book form.
The conclusion of Chapter Two from my upcoming novel "The Exile of Gaspar." Expect publication late 2013.
The night is very clear and unusually cold. We are so near to the star that its light banishes the darkness that tries futilely to extinguish it. A small village twinkles in the foothills to our east. The cry of a lost sheep cuts the night like a blade and a shepherd boy not much younger than I am scampers across the path before us to bring the lamb back to its fold. “Peace to you, brother shepherd,” Melchior calls out. “Can you tell me the name of that village?” The boy hauls the sheep over his shoulders. “That one over there?” he responds with a nod of his head. “That is Bet Lehem, the house of bread. Why should men of greatness such as you travel to Bet Lehem? I think you made a wrong turn. Jerusalem is that way, to the north. Who are you?”...
THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies are inextricably linked, their love yearning to flower despite every obstacle. For more information visit http://www.audreyblankenhagen.co.uk. ...
A historical Drama of Kerala, A Restitution of Mahabali, a great king of central part of Kerala. His period of ruling was considered as a golden one to Keralites. As he was an Asura king, (A Dravidian king), he was sent to the underworld by Vamana a Bhrahmin yogi. On his request , Mahabali was allowed to visit Kerala every year on thiruvonam days of Chiga masam (August) to confirm his people's well being. This was how ONAM celebration came into practice in Kerala, India....
History is written by victors. But what about the civilians in any country who suffer when men go into battle? Like in Germany. Displaced Germans suffered by the millions and were killed when they were chased off the land of their forefathers. Who talks about them and writes their stories? Today their ancestors live in North and South America while their parents rest in unmarked graves along road from east to west....
Tired of Waking I long for the night Undressing Shadows Folding their gowns. With tiny steps she tip-toes along the edge of that dark hem, retracing fading stiches of a gown worn out over time. Careful, not to stumble on that garment her shadows have woven those past fifty years. Unable to shed the past, unwilling to forget she moves along. Still waiting, after all those years....
Prologue 53 chapters Epilogue
概述 是一部精彩萬分的懸疑諜戰網路文學,故事之所以精彩,除了人物塑造較為成功之外,關鍵在於本書的時代背景:1950年6月,朝鮮戰爭爆發,美國出兵朝鮮,杜魯門下令第七艦隊進駐臺灣海峽。 故事就是在這一歷史關鍵轉捩點鋪展開來的,局勢對當時的國民黨非常不利,五月舟山、海南相繼淪陷,若戰事無法繼續扭轉,臺灣就岌岌可危了。山雨欲來風滿樓,此刻的臺灣島內民眾要求反腐消除積弊的聲浪此起彼伏,蔣總裁為了挽回民心,同年下令槍斃了陳儀,把228事件的歷史罪責都歸咎於陳儀一人。 為了挽救瀕臨滅亡的國民黨政權,蔣建豐結合當年自己在上海打老虎時期的失敗教訓,重新組建起了一支鐵血救國會,目的是希望鐵血救國會能夠在香港反腐緝私事務中發揮積極作用,找到國民黨內部大老虎們在香港走私洗錢的確鑿證據,自己也好借此機會在島內開展整頓黨務工作,從而肅清黨內的腐敗分子和內奸,淨化黨員隊伍。唯有如此,臺灣島內新的幣值改革才有成功的一線生機。 為了推行新的幣值改革,鐵血救國會不惜遠赴香港搜集情報,然而一場看不見的血雨腥風正在等待著他們,在朝鮮戰爭疑雲密佈下,各路人馬在香港這座彈丸之地粉墨登場,展開了一場你死我活的殊死較量。 鐵血救國會香港出師不利,梁複生雖大難不死卻身負重傷,幸運的是撿回一條性命,為了完成建豐先生的囑託,梁複生重新披掛上陣,並打入孚中公司內部,在探訪中發現一個驚人的密室,密室裏不僅關押著虞時英,還有留在大陸的「一0六」地倉財寶,與此同時隱蔽戰線鬥爭日趨激烈,雙方互相派出重量級的人物來到香港,擺出了一副決戰態勢,梁複生和他的同仁們將會面臨怎麼樣的命運?藏匿在孚中公司的地寶又會花落誰家?香港搶救學人計畫是否會化為泡影?這些故事即將拉開大幕。 ...
目錄 概述 主要人物介紹 第一節:蔣建豐驅車探病房,謝穆瀾病榻思情人 第二節:前線戰事淪陷頻傳,重整幣值事在人為 第三節:梁複生掀怒罵狂潮,蔣建豐談孤臣孽子 第四節:行轅會議眾說紛紜,出兵朝鮮意見不合 第五節:謝國棟后海逢玉英,白髮紅顏續寫佳話 第六節:精銳部隊蓄勢待發,以戰養戰計畫泡湯 第七節:梁複生抒鬱勃之氣,蔣建豐論黃埔精神 第八節:謝梁二人喜結良緣,訓練中心開筵設酒 第九節:謝穆瀾枕邊鶯聲泣露,梁複生燈下驗對槍傷 第十節:徐寅貶謫基隆監獄,CC派系勢如危卵 第十一節:梁複生冷嘲熱諷徐寅,蔣建豐過問行總舞弊 第十二節:黃蒲誠甄別洪門中人,蔣建豐燈下閱批點將 第十三節:前線急缺運輸工具,謝老率眾戰略南下 第十四節:謝國棟感慨武裝和平,梁複生一行劈波斬浪 第十五節:宋子亮詫異戲園突訪,謝國棟設計巧獻金條 第十六節:宋子亮攜美眷參加晚會,戰鬥同盟醞釀綁架計畫 第十七節:壯漢夜襲鐵血救國會,謝穆瀾孤膽勇奪手槍 第十八節:梁複生損兵折將受阻香港,蔣建豐摘埴索塗臨危受命 第十九節:鐵血救國會全軍覆沒,謝穆瀾為愛命喪黃泉 第二十節:梁複生折臂大難不死,黃蒲誠奉命前來探望 第二十一節:鈞座邀黃蒲誠等人共商國是,承諾事成授予二位上將軍銜 第二十二節:梁複生潛入孚中一探虛實,雅敘閣二記者酒後吐真言 第二十三節:齊慕棠彙報孚中新聞要案,劉雲下軍棋談論時局莫測 第二十四節:密室驚現地寶線索,時英不幸中箭歸西 第二十五節:藏匿地寶引發激辯,老者揭秘識破天驚 第二十六節:虞時英魂欲葬榆叢,徐寶琴劫後又逢生 第二十七節:粱復生重逢徐寶琴,黃蒲誠吃醋心生恨 第二十八節:黃埔誠單刀赴會,劉云談荊軻刺秦 第二十九節:粱復生為愛禁慾,徐寶琴地窖逃生 第三十節:梁復生辯統制經濟,劉云駁斥自由經濟 第三十一節:黃蒲誠洩密地寶實況,徐寶琴脫逃禀報案情 第三十二節:大災變颶海嘯侵襲,浪濤盡何日君再來...
A prequel featuring individual short story vignettes of Greggory, Robert, Marissa, and Daniel before their lives converge in Journey to Freedom. Greggory is a half-breed; a mix of Indian and black blood, and struggles both emotionally and physically with hatred and prejudice. Robert is a slave on a Florida plantation who takes in the starving, angry young Greggory, under his wing and helps him grow into a man of honor. Marrissa is a young girl who watches her mother waste away working as a maid in the saloon. Dodging the advances of the owner and his threats to put her in service, Marrissa dreams of having a better life and strikes out on her own after her mother's death. Daniel is an introvert who finds safe haven away from civilization and his past. His business of trapping is successful and he finds contentment in the simple life he leads until he has two visitors. There are no spoilers in this book so it can be read before or after Journey to Freedom....
This fiction novel introduces the manner of deception used to bypass the U.S. Constitution's express limitations on the scope of government. Since this is a rather large topic, this novel limits its scope to deal with money, showing how legal tender paper currencies were cleverly instituted in 1862 and gold was 'confiscated' in 1933. For a thorough, non-fiction look at the same topic, please see Monetary Laws, Volumes I & II; by the same author....
Mark’s greatest insights came from his great-grandfather’s monetary papers which relayed one conversation with Floyd Johnson. Floyd had brought up that the federal government seemed to be growing immensely powerful, not by amendment as was the express means provided by Article V of the Constitution for changing federal power, but merely somehow. Mark Adamson noted that the Tenth Amendment very clearly established the ‘rule’ of American government, that with ratification of the Constitution, government power became divided into federal and State jurisdictions. Mark Adamson likened this 10th Amendment principle to a pie, with the small sliver of federal authority delegated to the federal government as outlined by the Constitution, with the States retaining the remainder of the government power pie as reserved powers. Floyd stated he agreed only in principle. He stated that in practice the federal government now all but consumed the mostly insignificant State government authorities, with States being now forced to tow the federal line. Floyd therefore argued for a pie in which the small sliver went to the State governments, wher...
The Silk Roads are the trade routes that connect Asia with Europe and Africa since the ancient times. Due to their importance of the Silk Roads for trade there were many wars for their control over the centuries. The following chapters refer to some of these wars. Each chapter is and independent essay, which was written at different date, and therefore the booklet’s chapters can be written in any order....
A collection of rare and varied materials.
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole by extension is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Daphne du Maurier, and Stephen King....
Named a prophet of British imperialism by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic Douglas Kerr: He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with. This force shines in THE PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. -- MH . (Introduction by Mike Harris)...
This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . . (Summary from the text)
Fiction
Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886).
To the Viscountess Wolseley -- Preface -- Elzevirs -- Ballade of the Real and Ideal -- Curiosities of Parish Registers -- The Rowfant Books -- To F. L. -- Some Japanese Bogie-books -- Ghosts in the Library -- Literary Forgeries -- Bibliomania in France -- Old French Title-pages -- A Bookman's Purgatory -- Ballade of the Unattainable -- Lady Book-lovers....
Quote: Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The novel takes the side of the large ranchers, and depicts the lynchings as frontier justice, meted out by the protagonist, who is a member of a natural aristocracy among men. (from Wikipedia)...
Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to his plot. The story has to do with Mr. and Mrs. Gedge, tempted away from a dreary northern town library, which he runs, to become the wardens – caretakers and tour guides – of the house where the greatest writer of the English language was born, and in which he grew up. Or did he? There is, after all, a paucity of facts about His life (in James's text, that pronoun is always capitalized, as befits a deity) and only the slenderest of historical evidence about the existence of such a man. No matter; what is important is the myth of his life, and the myth needs to be cared for and fostered so that crowds upon crowds of tourists may come, and, with a proper reverence, worship at His Birthplace. And yet it is only myth, and the more he thinks of it, the unhappier poor honest Gedge becomes (to Mrs. Gedge, however, a job is a job, and too much speculation on reality might perhaps lead to dismissal). James himself was high skeptical about the Shakespeare question (who actually did write all those plays?...
An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only loves her money, so she does what anyone might do: she bolts for Europe, dons male attire and sets out on a walking tour of the Alps, passing as a teenage boy. Though professing hatred of all men, she soon falls in with a just-jilted English lord, aptly named Monty Lane, who is attempting to walk off a broken heart of his own. The Princess Passes presents the ups and downs of their alpine relationship through the unpenetrating eyes of Lord Lane. Why, he wonders, is he thus drawn to this beautiful youth? And has the boy a sister? Co-author Alice Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, New York, mentions in her memoirs that she sailed for Europe after a boyfriend tried to shoot her. In London she met literary editor Charles Williamson and began writing for the story magazines of media mogul Lord Northcliffe. At one point she found herself scribbling six serials simultaneously, on the income from which she and Williamson married. She later spun some of her husband's detailed descriptive notes made during their moto...
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a communal farm antecedent to those that sprang up later in the 1960s, and similar to one on which Hawthorne himself lived in 1841. These communes arose out of the pressures on society and the individual brought by the Industrial Revolution. Some were organized around religious philosophies, some were secular. Among the secularists, the Transcendental movement mentioned in the novel espoused the idea that the individual's intuition, rather than religious dogma, was the true path to spiritual enlightenment. Our four characters, like so many who fled to these communes, struggle to free mankind from bondage as they struggle with the unaccustomed day-to-day tasks of farm life. But they are plagued by a mystery that follows them from the world, and ultimately leads to tragedy. (Summary by Christine Dufour)...
The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published under the title By Order of the King....