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... am, back at a truth I learned long ago and have used in more than one of my novels: Nothing enters my life that isn’t caused or allowed by God, nothi... ...n writing (or should be). I had, and still have, much to learn about writing novels, but one thing I know, I need to continually work at my craft, lea... ...is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to the kingdoms of this wor... ... a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~ James Bryce (British Historian) “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made my... ...are driving a message toward the green of a person’s heart. Some of us write romance. Some of us write humor while others present the truth through le... ...? I’m humbled, but not subdued. “Couldn’t I just give my coworkers one of my novels and then give my two weeks’ notice?” It’s then the Savior’s words ... ...ne Grey died.” Who knew? I thought I was writing an inspirational historical romance? If God wants to use it as a Western (i.e., cowboy book), I’m mor...

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...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 ?T...

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...the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travellers went missing on journeys to the ... ...e, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader T... ...ld’s population? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest ... ...he mechanics of mating, but the veiled references to burning desire in her favourite Jane Austen novels, was all she knew. Even if she allowed Gavin... ...e Emperor Shah Jehan and his love for the Princess Mumtaz. Her girlish heart dreamed that a great romance such as theirs would be hers one day. Her ...

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...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007...

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...uttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contempo... ...s here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contemporary romances here, the classics there, the Encyclopedia Britannica collection—t... ... to paint his and Dagny's association as some grand, An-Affair-to-Remember romance? Edge pulled away from the curb, slid into the light flow of reside... ...t and uncertain. She kissed his cheek. "Immensely," she teased in a stodgy British accent. New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 191 Tyler chuckle... ...utta here. And I don't mean to go home and vegetate in front of some sappy romance with Ben, either." "What's wrong with that? Some women would kill f...

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...n an exceptionally marked degree the glazed and expressionless mask of the British domestic de race. I saw with dismay that if I hadn’t known him I sh... ...hers. She was a meagre little Miss Churm, but was such an ample heroine of romance. She was only a freckled cockney, but she could represent everythin... ... for you. That means she can’t turn round.” “She’ll do for the fashionable novels.” “Oh yes, she’ll do for them!” my model humorously declared. “Ain’t... ...nt, I couldn’t get the edi- tor of the Cheapside to publish a really royal romance, “A Tale of Buckingham Palace.” Sometimes however the real thing an... ...Beatrice. As I never insisted, in such situations, on the blankness of the British domestic, I reflected that he had the making of a servant—and I nee... ...ench one?” “I’m afraid.” “Do you carry them by the dozen—?” “Into innocent British homes?” Maud tried to remem- ber. “I believe I brought three—seeing... ...o assent— ”its giving at all a coherent impression of you.” “She wants her romance cheap!” said Mrs. Dyott. “Oh no—I should be willing to pay for it. ... ...terary relations. She would have read the long-winded obsolete memoirs and novels that both the figures and the setting ought clearly to remind one of...

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...gh-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points more adapted to poe... ...enough to induce him to risk himself within the dangerous precincts of the British capital. This appears from Dr. King’s Anecdotes of His Own Times. ‘... ... efusa est sicut aqua—non crescat. He goeth to dancing-houses, and readeth novels—sat est.’ I endeavoured to parry these texts by observing, that the ... ... that the dancing-houses amounted only to one night at La Pique’s ball—the novels (so far as matter of notoriety, Darsie) to an odd volume of Tom Jone... ...fety and future for- tunes, from visiting England; every other part of the British dominions, and a tour, if I pleased, on the Continent, being left t... ...ge of the circle to which it is limited by its halter. Do not accuse me of romance for obeying this impulse towards the South; nor suppose that, to sa... ...e came across me; and I could have been well contented to have swapped the romance of my situation, together with the glorious inde- pendence of contr... ...t; this is all which it is neces- sary for you at present to know.’ ‘Every British subject has a right to know why he suffers restraint,’ I replied; ‘...

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...e letter, and read the address, to ‘Antony Percival Fotheringham, Esquire, British Embassy, Constantinople.’ She started to find it was the surname of... ...ime of life when men take a turn. Depend upon it, now he has had his boy’s romance, he is not going to play the disconso- late lover for the rest of h... ...lip Augustus” itself.’ ‘James’s novel, you mean?’ ‘Have you read it?’ ‘His novels are exactly alike,’ said Theodora, leaving the room, but checked by ... ...ness, just like what one would sup- pose a novice. I shall take her for my romance, and try to guess at her history.’ ‘To console you for your godson ... .... Eager, though almost alarmed, at being thus introduced to the melancholy romance of his history, Violet thought he waited for her to speak. ‘It was ... ...k with me! There is no one at home, and I am stupefied with reading French novels to my aunt. Such horrid things! She has lost her taste for the natur... ...Chichester. Have you seen that last article of his?’ ‘What, that on modern novels? I was almost sure it was his, and yet I doubted. It was like and ye...

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...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ...fe, tried to duplicate that ship rivet-for-rivet… and plaster a fake bullshit romance on top of it? So the only reason the millions were spent to m... ...e titanic seem real was to fool people into believing the Hollywood crap fake romance actually happened? Do you think one million people given two ... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...man Melville A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsy... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Typee: A Romance of the South Seas By Herman Melville PREFACE More than three years ... ..., on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor... ...felt impelled to write Mr. Russell in regard to one of his newly published novels, and received in answer the following letter: July 21, 1886. My Dear...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the ma...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ...made us soldiers of fortune, have the pleas- ant recollection, that in the British service, stop where we may upon our career, it is only for want of ... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the... ...d in Holland, and I know that this name, however un- couth it may sound in British ears—” Glossin, conscious that the prisoner was now about to en- te...

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... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...id De Bracy, “when we heard the Prior Aymer tell us a tale in reply to the romance which was sung by the Minstrel?—He told how, long since in Palestin... ...her own hands to examine and to bind up his wounds. The youngest reader of romances and romantic ballads, must recollect how often the females, during... ...he lion-hearted King, the brilliant, but useless character, of a knight of romance, was in a great measure real- ized and revived; and the personal gl... ... 467 Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO IVANHOE. The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and migh... ...aps, necessary to enumerate so many reasons why the author of the Scottish Novels, as they were then exclusively termed, should be desirous to make an... ...r. The book, therefore, appeared as an avowed continuation of the Waverley Novels; and it would be ungrateful not to acknowledge, that it met with the... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ...

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...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m... ...y in England who start with a blind faith, inherited from Mrs. Radeliffe’s romances, and thousands beside, that, in Southern France or in Italy, from ... ...ant in a high moral degree. The plain truth is—that Southern Europe has no romance in its household literature; has not an organ for comprehend- ing w... ...as not an organ for comprehend- ing what it is that we mean by Radcliffian romance. The old ancestral romance of knightly adventure, the Sangreal, the... ...e evi- dence of their literature, viz. of their poetry, their drama, their novels, it is an interest to which the whole race is deaf and blind. A Fren...

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...es, gave them sover- eigns and ices and good advice, and weaved round them romances which had generally no likeness to the truth. The quality of her b... ... instead of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone unti... ... sound of feet coming down the corridors, and other properties of size and romance—had they any existence? Yet why should Mrs. Alardyce live all alone... ...re all, in some way, connected with Katharine, or with vague feel- ings of romance and adventure such as she inspired. But he could not talk to Mary a... ...r feelings? That’s what I can’t make out. And poetry’s all about feelings— novels are all about feelings.” She cut a cake vigorously into slices, and ... ...iefless 129 Virginia Woolf barrister lodged in a garret, writing immortal novels by the light of a farthing dip. But the romance which fell upon the ... ...es. She was matching him, presumably, with cer- tain characters in the old novels, for she came out, after a pause, with: “Um—um—Pendennis—Warrington—... ...the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it. She looked at the lemon-colored leafl... ...ed upon sufficiently intel- lectual grounds. A mistake, in my opinion. The British public likes a pellet of reason in its jam of eloquence—a pill of r...

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...e was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most so... ... he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. Well, then. The fl... ... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ... in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of co... ...on. Y ou should have seen his mother’s face when Telemaque (that delicious romance) was presented to him by the Doctor in the face of the whole school... ...ich the reader should hurry, panting. But my readers must hope for no such romance, only a homely story, and must be content with a chapter about V au... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...r Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. For them stage-coaches will have become romances —a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. Ah, ... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so...

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...all have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I would be... ...ndifferent to literary fame, that he did not care about the success of his romance, republished under its real title, L’Archer de Charles IX., or the ... ... proposed to him one of those infernal bargains which are heard of only in romances, but of which the hideous possibility has often been proved in cou... ... ask him for two sous? He would listen to you solemnly, and tell you, with British precision that would make a slap in the face seem genial, that he p... ...f inimi- cal and warring tribes, of which Cooper made such good use in his novels, was here associated with the petty details of Paris life. The foot-...

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...ad once been very terrible; there was a devil, who was also ex officio the British King’s enemy, and much denunciation of the wicked lusts of the fles... ...g.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British employers were, of course, taking their loss out of their workpeopl... ...gible confu- sions that were matter of fact to their fathers. Here were we British, forty-one millions of people, in a state of almost indescribably a... ... for once of the sons of the Secure, “would find it difficult to run their romances on a pawnshop basis. However, we must manage it.” I felt the day w... ...ace of all its matter-of-fact queerness, its sense of aimless materialism, romance returned to me, and passion, and my thoughts of honor and revenge. ... ...ully , so far as people of the “permanent official” class saw them, in the novels of Mrs. Humphry Ward. All these books are still in this world and at...

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... legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become... ...iters who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures of romance as pat- *This was described in Christie’s catalogue as follows: “A ... ...er, I was in- troduced to it. It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is n... ...e combined a masculine intelli- gence with a feminine perversity , and the novels she wrote were original and disconcerting. It was at her house one d... ... Waterford was a cynic. She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material. Now and then she invited members... ...s that came down from Mudie’s Library brought with them not only their own romance, but the romance of London. She had a real passion for reading (rar... ...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir...

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...o the consumption of beer by her maid- servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance o... ...disappointed if you count on that. It’s a dismally prosaic one; there’s no romance here but what you may have brought with you.” “I’ve brought a great... ...rary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. Pra... ... Lady puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about En- gland, about the British constitution, the English char- acter, the state of politics, the m... ... don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the... ...ovels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal but I don’t suppose they’re very accurate. We once... ...o amused themselves, time and again, with talk- ing of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it;... ...arce fell short of see- ing him—though quite without luridity—as a hero of romance. She retired to rest with a sense of good fortune, with a quickened... ...any sort of success of it; and from the moment you do that it ceases to be romance, I assure you: it becomes grim real- ity! And you can’t always plea...

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...’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour grew rich with the romance which his young fancy lent them. One evening he asked whether he mi... ...f the Saints, the Fathers, the histories of the church, were old-fashioned novels; and these Philip at last discovered. He chose them by their titles,... ...mysterious passing of dark crowds bent upon pleasure. Sharp lent him cheap novels from Holywell Row , which Philip read in his cubicle with a sort of ... ... not help seeing how small his attainments were beside the American’s, his British pertinacity , his wounded vanity (perhaps they are the same thing),... ...ward’s poetic allusions troubled his imagination, and his soul yearned for romance. At least that was how he put it to himself. And it happened that a... ... the silent, almost mysterious entrance. It seemed to him the very soul of romance. “What was he like?” “Oh, he was handsome. Charmant garcon.” 169 W... ...rt of thing was all very well for married women, he had read enough French novels to know that in France it was indeed the rule, but Miss Wilkinson wa... ...th hair - dressers and garcons de cafe; I translate wretched books for the British public, and write articles upon contemptible pictures which de- ser... ...thed himself in a tweed suit and a Trinity Hall tie. He looked grotesquely British. The others were elaborately polite to him, and during the soup the...

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... player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife was a pink, short, wilfully smiling, managing, ing... ...e little in practis- ing them. And then it happened to Mr. Polly that real Romance came out of dreamland into life, and intoxicated and gladdened him ... ...fetime. 70 The History of Mr. Polly “Vile Business,” said Mr. Polly. Then Romance appeared. Or to be exact, Romance be- came audible. Romance began a... ...n the hither side and as ten pink finger tips, scarcely apprehended before Romance became startling and emphatically a leg, remained for a time a fine... ...he hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, that weekly interlude of drought our law imposes. The yout... ...“You (un- profitable matter, and printing it would lead to a censorship of novels)! You know I got a weak chess!” The pole took him in the throat and ...